Monday, March 23, 2009

An ode to Work?

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March 22 2009: Lucy Kellaway writes in the Financial Times , " Last week the Guardian newspaper published a list of the 1,000 best pop...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A Trillion Here, A Trillion There, and After a While You are Talking Real Money!

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A J. Paulson tells me: " And I can remember when John Kennedy held the budget to $98 billion because he was unwilling to be the first P...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

Home loans in the US: the biggest racket since Al Capone?

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Willem Buiter, in his Maverecon blog on the FT, has some rather nasty things to save about our fetish of protecting homeowners from foreclos...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Good Bye Mr. Chernin

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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson writes about Peter Chernin as the FT's man in the news. Chernin recently announced he is leaving News Corp. ...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Down with Bono; Up with Kiva

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Why is Africa such an economic basket case? Is there hope for the Dark Continent? Are Hollywood celebrities and foreign aid destroying Af...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Economic Policy: Where Do We Stand Now?

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The economy won President Barak Obama his job and the economy is the focus of his agenda. Given the speed of events, it is not too early to...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Bigggest Quarterly Japan's GDP Drop Biggest Since 1974

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Australia's News.com.au reports, " Japan's economy shrank at an annualised pace of 12.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008 ...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Inflation is Bad, What about Asset Price Inflation?

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You may be surprised to know who wrote " By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an ...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Unemployent Goes to 7.6%; 2008 Payrolls Revised Down

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This morning's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a drop in payroll employment of almost 600,000 and ...