alex tabarrok wrote the following comments in a frightening figure responding to reader teds question why isnt the answer to deflation simply printing more money. i thought this was an excellent tutorial on how belowmarket interest rates operate. because the real problem right now isnt that there is too little money. its that interest ......
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...ommunist leadership like the uaw keeps trying to boot utter catastrophe 10 or 15 years down the line. the problem with holding a tiger by the tail is that 10 or 15 years is a long time.......
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did the fed or asian saving cause the housing bubble by robert p. murphy posted on 11192008 just about the only good thing to come out of the housing bubble is that many financial analysts are coming to see the virtue of the austrian theory of the business cycle. specifically though greenspan did his best to blame deregulation and foreigners who saved too much many people......
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the book is getting snarky reviews but if it were by an unknown rather than by the famous malcolm gladwell many people would be saying how interesting it is. the main point in economic language is that human talent is heterogeneous and that the talent of a particular person must mesh with the capital structure of his or her time if major success is to resultathe main enduring insight......
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singapore is to allow compensation for kidney transplants and for eggs. a government proposal has been approved by a bioethics committee and legislation will be introduced early next year. the committee declared that reimbursement for kidney donation was acceptable as long as it is not an undue inducement nor amounting to organ trading. via sao boas notacias para ......
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some backers of big national service plan say better roll it out now before the crisis atmosphere passes welch reason hit and run sorry maam if hubbys policy excludes coverage for injury to family members you cant blame him as uninsured motorist the briefcase ohio muchcited 70 hr figure for gm labor costs misleading covers......
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we just really wanted to shatter the cupcakepizza dichotomy. its just existed for too long. asa wilder on the origin of the cup zza.8221 hat tip to the blog of diminishing returns via marginal revolution . marginal revolution also links to the second place if reports are true and barack obama is really going to tap widely respected cbo dire......
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the first line of tyler cowens review of outliers malcolm gladwells new book the book is getting snarky reviews but if it were by an unknown rather than by the famous malcolm gladwell many people would be saying how interesting it is. bing i can identify with the fatigue one can get after reading too much of the same sort of thing from an author even a favorite autho......
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an historic yield crossover .a the dividend yield of the sp 500 now roughly equals that of the tenyear treasury yield.a barrons.com thestreet.com the behavior of the vix is not all that unprecedented.a however with a little bit of time we just might get to unprecedented.a daily options report crisis or not top performers on wall street still want to get pa......
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to review there was a flash in the blogospheric pan a few months ago over a controversial book called nudge the authors of which a law professor and an economics professor both of some renown insisted that libertarian paternalism is not an axiomatic oxymoron. i along with almost every other libertarian commentator was skeptical . through sheer coincidence two entir......
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what will we do differentlya a democracyspace.org peter levine points out in a post titled a moment for inclusion reflectionsaon the electionathat its important to remember that many people did not vote for him and some certainly had principled reasons not to.athose who voted for and celebratea obama82 17s victory must remember that he emphasized that he will b......
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supercapitalism written by robert reich is an amazing book and should be read by every single american citizen. the book is a historical look at american capitalism and democracy and how theyve been intertwined and even how theyve diverged in recent years.a this divergence reich argues is due to supercapitalism. what does this meana it means that this country has moved pa......
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egypt has placed 115 on transparency internatio nal s annual corruption perceptions index . hard to believe there are more corrupt countries in the world. qatar israel and the uae are the top ranking i.e. least corrupt nations from the middle east. hat tip marwa rakha . related articles by zemanta perceptions of corruption wealthy countries allowing corruptio......
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u.s. tips point to deflation .a ft.com also capital spectator everything is trading together .a marketbeat stock market expected returns.a mankiw blog the sp 500 is trading some 32 below its 200 day moving average .a bespoke paulson co. has begun buying beaten down mortgage securities.a clusterstock some one......
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via tyler cowen jason kottke has a post that vividly illustrates how music and movies from your childhood become oldies and clas sics without your even noticing it. to wit watching star wars today is like watching its a wonderful life 1946 in 1977 ... listening to nirvanas smells like teen spirit today is equivalent to playing terry jac......
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i read this book on a flight recently. the authors ray fisman and ted miguel are development economists at big schools columbia and uc berkeley teds in the econ department but i see him and his ras all the time and theyve written this book to give laymen some insight into the research we econo mists do and how that research can be used to advance dev......
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the federal government owns more than half of oregon utah nevada idaho and alaska and it owns nearly half of california arizona new mexico and wyoming.a see the map for more.a it is time for a sale.a selling even some western land could raise hundreds of billions of dollars perhaps trillions of dollars for the federal government at a time when the funds are badly needed and no one want......
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selfrecommending as they say and if i had my glasses nearby in this dark hotel room i could read it too. i thank mark thoma for the pointer. go to full article......
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marginal revolution the u.s. census bureau reports that median income stagnated from 1976 to 2006 growing by only 18 percent contrast data from the bureau of economic analysis indicate income per person was up 80 percent. three data issues adversely impact reported median household income gains the choice of price index a change in the mix of household types and the measure of income........
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watching star wars today is like watching its a wonderful life 1946 in 1977. here are more such comparisons. go to full article......
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according to a new study after 26 days and almost 350 million email messages only 28 sales resulted says the research paper. yet even with this apparently abysmal response rate of less than 0.00001 per cent the researchers still estimate that the controllers of a network the size of storm are still bringing in about 7000 a4430 a day or 3.5m a2.21m over......
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after 26 days and almost 350 million email messages only 28 sales resulted says the research paper. yet even with this apparently abysmal response rate of less than 0.00001 per cent the researchers still estimate that the ... go to full article......
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restaurants for dogs with hall of fame baseball players as waiters edition. i thank john de palma for the pointer and the name of the edition. go to full article......
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