Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Henrique de Campos Meirelle On Brazil's Success Through the Financial Crisis

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Henrique de Campos Meirelles is the Governor of Banco Central do Brasil. Maybe Ben Bernanke could learn a thing or two from this interview ...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Maybe You Prefer Pisner Urquell or Budweiser (from České Budějovice!) or Klášter, But István Szoke Thinks Staropramen Is a "Hidden Gem."

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The MoneyMeisters (I can not call them breumeisters) at Anheuser Busch InBev are shuffling their portfolio.  They are selling to private eq...
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The Rise of the Loonie

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The Canadian dollar is so strong, the Bank of Canada may intervene lest a too strong Loonie stifle the recovery north of the border.

The State of General Aviation and the Consequences for Wichita

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The National Business Aviation Association conference is opening in Orlando, Florida next week.  It and surrounding events will provide foc...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson Win the Nobel Prize In Economics

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"Governance" is the key word in this year's economics announcement.   How do people come up with organizational solutions to p...
Friday, September 04, 2009

The Unemployment Rate Goes to 9.7% and Payrolls Drop "Only" 216,000

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on the August employment situation this morning. The Nation The national unemployment rate rose ...
Monday, August 31, 2009

AIG's Financial Crisis and Boeing's Biggest Customer

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Boeing and Airbus's biggest commercial customer is not an airline but the fallen insurance giant, AIG (see my earlier  posting " Wh...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Bernanke To Get a Second Term as Chair

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President Obama is scheduled to announce that Princeton Professor Ben Bernanke will be renominated to a second term as Chairman of the Feder...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Wichita's Unemployment Rate Jumps from 8.5% to 9.9%

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The Kansas Department of Labor reported today that Wichita's economy lost 4,671 jobs in July and the unemployment rate hit 9.9 percent....