Latests blog post
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Global Container Shipping
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This is awesome. HT: Big Picture.
14 minutes ago
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Fitch Could Not Think Less Of Greece Right Now
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Fitch ratings agency downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk
territory on Thursday, warning of a “probable” Greek exit from the euro
currency un...
31 minutes ago
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Republicans Have a Vision For Health Policy, and They'll Be Happy to Tell
You About It Just as Soon as They Figure Out What It Is
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In the 2010 election, Republicans framed their response to the passage of
President Obama’s health care overhaul around two words: repeal and
replace. W...
35 minutes ago
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Liquidity Risk and Credit in the Financial Crisis
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The 2007–08 financial crisis was the biggest shock to the banking system
since the 1930s, raising fundamental questions about liquidity risk. The
global fi...
1 hour ago
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Edible Edifice: In honor of the company's 30th...
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In honor of the company's 30th anniversary, chefs at Irvine, Calif.-based Qzina Specialty Foods built a six-foot-tell replica of the Yucatán Temple of...
1 hour ago
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Facebook Could Make 2012 a Record for Internet/Social Media IPOs
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If Facebook raises over $16 billion in its inital public offering tomorrow
it will eclispe 1999's record setting year of $15.8B raised from
internet/social...
1 hour ago
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Austerity, American Style
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Paul Krugman: >Austerity, American Style: Via Mark Thoma, Antonio Fatas has a good piece on the exceptional weakness of government spending in this recovery....
1 hour ago
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RealtyTrac: Foreclosure activity declined in April
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This was released earlier this morning by RealtyTrac: U.S. Foreclosure
Activity Shifts Eastward in April
RealtyTrac® ... today released its U.S. Foreclosur...
2 hours ago
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Montana can’t sleep
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[image: What's Wrong US?]
Help is a drug company that offers you less. Less active ingredients, less
waste, less confusion, less greed. Its tongue-in-cheek …
2 hours ago
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Euro area official sector exposures to Greece in excess of EUR 290bn Total;
EUR 84bn Germany, EUR 63bn France, EUR 55bn Italy, EUR 37bn Spain
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Via email I received an interesting set of facts from Barclays regarding
banking exposures to Greece. Greece: Euro area official sector exposures in
excess...
2 hours ago
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Foreclosures fall to lowest level since 2007
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Foreclosures fall to lowest level since 2007 By Les Christie, CNN Money,
May 17, 2012 NEW YORK — Foreclosure filings in April fell for the third
straight m...
3 hours ago
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Jobless Claims Were Unchanged Last Week
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No news is still good news for jobless claims. The risk that the labor market’s revival has stalled is still on everyone’s mind, but there’s nothing ominous ...
4 hours ago
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Recovery Begins When Addiction Ends: An Open Letter to Jamie Dimon
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*By the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street* Dear Jamie
Dimon: We, the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street, are
sta...
6 hours ago
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Open House Review: 52 Secret Garden
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Walking into an empty house can make it easier to imagine it as your own
than when you see a home filled with someone else’s furniture, photos, and
memor...
7 hours ago
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Buyers Fear They Could Lose Out On A Deal
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The Sun Chronicle reports on Massachusetts. “Now that there are signs of
recovery in the housing market, the hand-wringing has resumed over the
shortage of...
7 hours ago
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Them that's got shall get
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THIS week in the paper I'm writing about welfare for and hostage-taking by
billionaires, or as it's more commonly known, American football. On Monday,
Mi...
10 hours ago
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Governor Walker’s Revised Employment Data in Context
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(To be updated on Thursday with the release of official BLS data.)
Today, the Wisconsin DWD took the unusual -- one might say unprecedented [1] [2] -- step ...
14 hours ago
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Possible Endings for the Greek Drama
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I did not set out to write a trilogy about Europe, but the market is telling us that nothing else matters right now. My long-standing position is that Europe...
16 hours ago
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Market Recap - Apple Falls under $550, Natural Gas Shines
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Another heavy volume distribution day, this time thanks to the Fed minutes.
From IBD, "The Fed minutes indicated little change in policymakers'
assessments...
20 hours ago
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Market Recap - Apple Falls under $550, Natural Gas Shines
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Another heavy volume distribution day, this time thanks to the Fed minutes.
From IBD, "The Fed minutes indicated little change in policymakers'
assessments...
20 hours ago
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Victoria Grant Socks It To The World (& sideswipes the FRBNY)
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In many ways we seem to have entered into one of the more dystopian Orson
Scott Card novels, and quite a few commentators don’t think this kid’s for
real...
22 hours ago
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Creativity in cities
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Despite an unfavorable review in yesterday's NY Times, I enjoyed reading Jonah Lehrer's Imagine: How Creativity Works. Creativity involves activities within...
2 days ago
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Fashion: How Amazon Can Make It Work
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My latest Bloomberg View column suggests some ways Amazon might overcome
fashionista skepticism about its plans to move beyond its traditional
apparel offe...
2 days ago
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Homosexual Marriage—Posner
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President Obama’s declaration of support for homosexual marriage has focused public attention on the question whether such marriage should be permitted, alth...
3 days ago
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History Matters
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When Harvard president Drew Faust, a historian, overruled her economics
department in the spring of 2008 and passed up the chance to hire the
husband-and-w...
3 days ago
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Coase on NPR
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| Peter Klein | Last week. Filed under: - Klein -, New Institutional
Economics, People, Theory of the Firm
5 days ago
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Government Intrusion Forces The National Association of Home Builders To
React
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One of the most subservient organizations to the federal government has had
enough of government regulations and is fighting back. The National
Association...
6 days ago
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Europe's worst nightmare
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Say hello to Alexis Tsipras, president of the Greek Synaspismos political
party and head of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) parliamentary
group.
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1 week ago
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State Of The Air - April 25, 2012
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The American Lung Association has compiled a state-by-state map of air
pollution measures. Learn about air pollution in your state here:
http://w...
3 weeks ago
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Casino Capitalism: hedge it!
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“It is usually agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be
inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock
Exchanges. That t...
4 weeks ago
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Mises Daily: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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“Will the Latest Plan ‘Fix’ the Eurozone?” by Frank Shostak Deleveraging is
necessary to clean up the system and lay the foundations for solid economic
exp...
6 months ago
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Five years too late. Rage.
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Arrest Angelo Mozillo.
Arrest Michael Perry.
Tax the 1%.
Neutralize Citizens United.
Expose the GOP and their masters.
Rage.
Rage.
Rage.
Rage*
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7 months ago
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New real estate app from O.C. Register
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People in the market for local real estate can get some help in their
search for housing with a new free iPhone app for real estate listings from
The Orang...
7 months ago
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The Altos Research Real-Time Housing Market Update for September 2011
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Altos Research has published their September 2011 housing report. Quote: "Since a peak in early July, we've seen week over week cooling of the housing mar...
8 months ago
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Weekend Funnies - 4 Sept 11
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Click any image to enlarge - enjoy!
8 months ago
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UW Settles Public Records Act Case Over Baby Einstein Study
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The Seattle Times reports that the UW settled a Public Records Act case
seeking access to the UW data used to call into question the effectiveness
of the B...
10 months ago
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Real Estate Investors Invest In Profitable Oil Real Estate Niche
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Domestic Development Company announces a compelling real estate investment
product that allows real estate investors to invest in oil, while yielding
the ...
11 months ago
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Moving Day for This Blog: Thanks for Everything!
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In August, 2007, the Freakonomics blog took up residence on NYTimes.com. It
has been a great ride. But now we are riding off, back to an independent
Freako...
1 year ago
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Herding, Risk Appetite & Complacency Somewhat "Elevated".......
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Just in time after the fastest 100 percent run of the S&P 500 ever....From
a risk/reward standpoint this should at least raise some
eyebrows......Especiall...
1 year ago
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The revolutionary poor
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*Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. *
Aristotle
1 year ago
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On the Importance of Title Insurance
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As part of the nationwide shock and concern over failures in the
foreclosure process, last weekend's New York Times contained an Article on
the imporantanc...
1 year ago
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The Future of Education
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Gary North has written a very fascinating article about the future of
education. You can read it here. The Khan Academy referred to is brilliant!
These con...
1 year ago
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South OC recent sales report
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South OC properties are changing hands every day. Here are some samples of
houses that have closed in the past week:
27916 Muirfield #183, Mission Viejo 92...
2 years ago
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Snow Storm Has Mid-Atlantic Residents Scrambling For Necessities
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” -Benjamin Franklin
(American statesman, scientists, philosopher, printer, writer, and
inventor. 1706-17...
2 years ago
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Commercial real estate
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For those of you who have not seen it, I suggest checking out
http://realestaterisk.blogspot.com.
4 years ago
