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The Economics of China, and More
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Two extremely useful books on China and the Chinese Currency: The Oxford
Companion to the Economics of China and Renminbi Internationalization:
Achievement...
3 hours ago
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Greek Payback Math at 0% Interest
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*Payback of Greek Debt*
Greece has something like €315 billion of public debt.
Forget about that. Instead focus on liabilities as presented in Revised
Gre...
3 hours ago
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Wednesday: FOMC Statement
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I don't expect much to change in the FOMC statement. I expect "patient" to
remain:
"Based on its current assessment, the Committee judges that it can be
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4 hours ago
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Ring System 200X Saturn’s Discovered 430 Light Years Away
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A ring system circling a young giant planet about 430 light years from
Earth is 200 times the size of Saturn’s rings, scientists have discovered.
WSJ’s Mon...
5 hours ago
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STTG Market Recap Jan 27, 2015
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Indexes gapped down at the open and were quite weak all session; the S&P
500 fell 1.34% and the NASDAQ 1.89%. Yesterday we noted the results of
Microsoft c...
6 hours ago
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STTG Market Recap Jan 27, 2015
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Indexes gapped down at the open and were quite weak all session; the S&P
500 fell 1.34% and the NASDAQ 1.89%. Yesterday we noted the results of
Microsoft c...
6 hours ago
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Write-Offs: 1.27.15
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$$$ Yahoo to Spin Off Remaining Alibaba Stake [WSJ] $$$ Investors Rethink
Taking a Leap Into Junk Bin [WSJ] $$$ Apple Delivers Quarter for the Ages
[WSJ]...
6 hours ago
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Adam Smith on the financial crisis
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What would the great Scottish philosopher say about the financial crisis?
7 hours ago
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Shikha Dalmia on Helping the Middle Class Without Class Warfare
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[image: King Obama]America’s middle class has taken a huge hit on President
Obama’s watch. *The* *Wall Street Journal* has pointed out that the
after-ta...
7 hours ago
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Adventures in Interior Design: Century-Old Edwardian Lets Loose with Wild Toy Menagerie
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Photo by Sean Fennessy via The Design Files For Australian fashion designer Christopher Graf and his partner Glenn Francis, a 1910 Edwardian perched atop the...
7 hours ago
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2:00PM Water Cooler 1/27/15
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Today's Water Cooler: Hillary sucking all the oxygen out of the room, 1950s
plan for martial law, durable goods tank, true facts about irony
11 hours ago
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A century of National Geographic maps
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[image: Germany map from National Geographic]
Celebrating the 100th year of the National Geographic cartographic
department, they provide a truncated roun...
12 hours ago
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Everyone Thought The Movie Would Never End
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A report from the South China Morning Post. “Offshore bond sales by
mainland property developers have stalled in January as rising investor
fears of a flur...
20 hours ago
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Here's How Much You Have To Earn To Be In The 1 Percent In Each State
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"What does it take to make it into the 1 percent of earners? In Arkansas,
you'd need to pull in $228,298 a year. In Connecticut, the threshold is
$677,608....
20 hours ago
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January 26th Blogger Sentiment Poll
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Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants: 24/7 Wall St (-) The Aleph Blog (-)
Biiwii (-) BullBear Trading Carl Futia (+) Dash of Insight (N) Dividend
Growth Inv...
1 day ago
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Complexity models and policies
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Here is a famous headline from The
Telegraph, 5
Nov, 2008: “The Queen asks why no one saw the credit crunch coming … During a
briefing by academics at the Lo...
2 days ago
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Economist, Interrupted
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First-magnitude stars of the generation of economists who began their work
in the 1970s include Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Lawrence Summers, Jeffrey
Sachs, ...
2 days ago
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Indahnya model baju muslim pesta
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Pernahkah anda pergi ke pesta? Begitu retorisnya pertanyaan tersebut bukan?
Karena jelas jawabanya pasti “sudah”. Pesta adalah waktu dimana banyak
orang...
2 days ago
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Two Large-Sample Empirical Papers on Strategy and Organization
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| Peter Klein | Bryan Hong, Lorenz Kueng, and Mu-Jeung Yang have two new
NBER papers on strategy and organization using a seven-year panel of about
5,500 C...
5 days ago
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Orchard Hills Overview 2: The Groves
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Over the last several weeks, I have visited and reviewed the non-gated
portion of Orchard Hills, including the parks, common areas, and all five
sets of ...
5 months ago
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Weighing the Week Ahead: More Clarity from the Market Message?
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Do you have an opinion about stocks or bonds or foreign exchange? If so, it is easy to find a market message that will support (or contradict) your viewpoint...
7 months ago
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Farewell
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In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
8 months ago
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December 2013 Home Sales Drop Sharply
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Housing sales dropped 7 percent nationwide as demand for homes declined
significantly. That is the bad news, but there is good news. Housing prices
did ris...
1 year ago
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A Brief Timeout...
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The Capital Spectator will be migrating to a new blogging platform (Wordpress) over the next day or so, which means that all the usual caveats are lurking wi...
1 year ago
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Here's to 5 years of solid literary gloom starting soon...
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Great new leading indicator for literary mood.
Abstract:
For the 20th century since the Depression, we find a strong correlation
between a ‘literary miser...
1 year ago
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Moving
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Dear readers, We have been working behind the scenes to migrate growthology to a new platform and join forces with Policy Forum on the Foundation's entrepren...
1 year ago
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The Glamour of Jihadi Terrorism
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No sooner had Rolling Stone put Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev on its cover, looking doe-eyed and rock-star disheveled, than
critics den...
1 year ago
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Welcome to Housing Bubble 2.0 - The Great Reflation is Here
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*We predicted it years ago. Inflation, then deflation, then inflation.
And we've just made the turn.*
*If you haven't already, GET OUT OF CASH and get...
1 year ago
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Update and server move
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HousingDoom is in the process of being moved to a new server and updated.
During this time, there may be some periodic issues. Warnings about
certificate...
1 year ago
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Turning the Games into Gold
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Everyone will have fun and games except the British taxpayer
2 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
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Weekend Funnies - 4 Sept 11
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Click any image to enlarge - enjoy!
3 years 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...
3 years ago
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The revolutionary poor
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*Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. *
Aristotle
4 years 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...
4 years ago
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