Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Government Shuts Down Wind Mills and Shell Takes a FL*NG at Sea

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The Wind May Blow, But the Power Does Not Flow Pipelines and/or transmission are the choke point of energy policy. Getting energy from th...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

FT interview with Carmen Reinhart, co-author of This Time is Different, about the crisis in Greece

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This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff Joseph Count de Maistre once wrote o...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Did the Fiscal Stimulus Cause a Net Loss of Jobs?

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Ohio State University economists Tim Conley and Bill Dupor have done a study of the impact of the fiscal stimulus embodied in "The Amer...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Scott Davis, UPS, and the Economy

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May 21 2011 Scott Davis, the chief executive of United Parcel Service, tells the FT’s Gillian Tett that US growth numbers are disappointing...
Monday, May 23, 2011

No Wonder We Have a Trade Deficit: Did You Know You Need Permission to Export Natural Gas?

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As the U.S. Balance of Payments Drives Us Deeper Into the Hole The U.S. is running a current account deficit of almost a half trillion dol...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Good Bye Reserve Currency?

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It was a bit of a shock to read James Politi writing in the Financial Times that the, " World Bank sees end to dollar’s hegemony. ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Our favorite hawk, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig, spoke with Bloomberg in London.   On Bloomberg Television...
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Friday, April 01, 2011

Employment Was Up in March

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported jobs on U.S. payrolls were up 214,000 in March and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent. ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Wichita's Unemployment Rate Falls Compared to Last Year

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The Kansas Department of Labor gave us new evidence that Wichita is continuing on its slow road to economic recovery.  Dan Voohris reported ...