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How Secure is Ferrellgas Partners'18-Percent Yield? - One might infer that the market has already discounted Ferrellgas Partners (FGP-$5.55) reported $628.8 million asset write-down of its disastrous 2015 acqu...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ - Lisa Allardice in The Guardian: At a PEN lecture in Manhattan last weekend, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took Hillary Clinton to task for beginnin...5 years ago
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Transit Tech Lab - The Partnership for NYC, alongside its partners at the MTA, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ TRANSIT, and NYC Department of Transportation...3 months ago
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Wednesday links: the shelf life of a stock - Banking - The number of bank branches in the U.S. peaked in 2012. (sherwood.news) - Where SVB's business stands as JP Morgan ($JPM) looks to make i...11 hours ago
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Getting Involved in Bitcoin - When bitcoin value skyrocketed in late 2013, everyone suddenly started paying attention to this unusual currency. A large number of online businesses alrea...10 years ago
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Where to find me - With True/Slant folding up shop, I continue to be found every day under the initials M.S. at the Economist’s blog on American politics, Democracy in Americ...13 years ago
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Foreign Flows into US Credit Product - Weekly Foreign Flows to Long-Dated U.S. Credit Surge: Barclays2021-05-14 13:33:59.208 GMT By Jack Pitcher(Bloomberg) — Foreign flows into longer-dated U.S....2 years ago
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Join Me at the World Money Show Orlando this February - It’s rapidly approaching and really will be here before you know it! Don’t hesitate! We’ll be looking forward to seeing you! I’m excited about this opport...6 years ago
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Vocational Education in Africa. Anyone? by Jeff Megayo - Jeff Megayo writes: ...there’s been a noticeable focus in getting Africans educated, but the evolution in education hasn’t necessarily translated into tang...2 months ago
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The beginning of the end - borrowed wisdom is still wisdomGreetings readers! After 10 years, I am going to stop blogging at aguanomics. I am doing this because I have written quite ...
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Announcements - Janaagraha is hiring: Head - Municipal Finance We at Janaagraha seek an exceptional individual to lead our municipal finance mission to the next level of ...4 days ago
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*Sigh* No Forest - In a move that should surprise no one, Canadian/Chinese forestry company Sino-Forest filed for bankruptcy in Canada yesterday. The timing of the filing sh...
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Lahti - I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's revelatory B...7 months ago
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Medicare Stumbles Managing a Costly Problem — Chronic Illness - Nearly a decade ago, Medicare launched a program to help the two-thirds of beneficiaries with chronic conditions by paying their doctors an additional mont...
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Milton Friedman: The last conservative or the first welfare state classical liberal? - When Milton Friedman died in 2006 I wrote a blog post crediting him as an ‘enormous influence on my life’. I said back then that although few people call t...3 months ago
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COVID-Economics Links (May 13) - - Modern health crises: Recession and recovery - Chang Ma, John Rogers, Sili Zhou (VoxEU.org) - The EU response to the coronavirus crisis: How...3 years ago
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Nine Chapters on the Semigroup Art - While Googling something or other, I came across Nine Chapters on the Semigroup Art, which is a leisurely introduction to the theory of semigroups. (While ...9 years ago
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Insight Into How Insurgents Fought in Iraq - Documents obtained known as “storyboards” shed light on how American soldiers discovered weapons caches and where they came from.10 years ago
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Trump Administration Continues to Attack the Environmental Projections First Put Into Place by the Nixon Administration - If you, the reader, are uncertain whether to support Trump or whoever the Democratic candidate turns out to be, I urge you to consider the devastating redu...4 years ago
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Are we surrounded by dark energy? A spacecraft tetrad will look for it - Most astrophysicists believe that 95% of the universe is dark stuff - dark matter and dark energy. We can’t see, feel, or hear it, but it’s supposedly all ...
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A Guest Post by Yitzhak Greenberg: "Deeper into the Darkling Abyss: The 5th Circuit joins the 6th and 7th Circuits in Finding that Consent Cannot Cure A Bankruptcy Court's Stern Infirmity" - Blogging has enabled me to meet many people I otherwise likely would never have met. On such person is Yitzhak Greenberg, a bankruptcy attorney in New York...10 years ago
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Twitter Is Struggling but Jack Dorsey’s Other Company Is Nearing an All-Time High - Square's ascent has come thanks to a combination of an expansion into multiple financial services and a pivot into cryptocurrency.5 years ago
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What Joe Biden Must Tell The Israeli Public - On February 22nd, four months into Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu presented his war cabinet with a short document sketching out wh...
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Daily Report: A Net Neutrality Setback for Facebook in India - In the United States, the social media giant has been an advocate of equal treatment of all Internet content. In India, regulators who share that belief ha...8 years ago
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Ecuador security crisis options - I used last week's World Politics Review column to call for a regional response to Ecuador's security crisis. ICG asks about the impact of a war on crime...3 months ago
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Happy Birthday Frederic Bastiat - Fifteen years ago, I had the honor of giving the keynote address in Dax, France, honoring Frederic Bastiat on his 200th birthday. I titled the speech, “Why...7 years ago
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9-year-old British boy wins Europe-wide Imitation Seagull Screeching Competition - Congratulations to young Cooper [Last Name Withheld] of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, who recently travelled to the coastal Belgian town of De Panne and t...3 hours ago
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Sad Puppies Delete Their Own Weblog Posts! - Brad Torgersen deletes his own weblog posts: **Rogers Cadenhead**: [Brad Torgersen's 'Science Fiction Civil War'](http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3742/...8 years ago
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What’s Personality Got To Do With Us? A Lot - Personality is understood as the consistent features we display in regards to our thinking, feeling, and behavior. It begins to emerge around the age of 3....5 years ago
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FTX and an old blog post - A long time ago I wrote a blog post about rehypothecation with brokers. It is - unsurprisingly - relevant again. In some sense crypto provides fast-track...1 year ago
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Schäublenomics - The veteran German will be the most familiar face around the table as the eurozone’s longest serving finance minister, having taken office in late 2009. ...6 years ago
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FTSE 100 on course for new record but William Hill warns on profits - Bookmaker said it was hit by unfavourable football and racing results in December Leading shares are on course for an eighth successive closing high, eq...7 years ago
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Your Questions, Answered - I invited you to ask me anything this week, and you did. Here are my answers to some of your most interesting questions.9 years ago
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Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...9 months ago
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Belated March CPI analysis - I've only recently returned from several weeks in Argentina. I didn't have access to my charts, and besides, I was rather more interested in people, food, ...
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Thursday: Q1 GDP, Unemployment Claims, Pending Home Sales - [image: Mortgage Rates] Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: • At 8:30 AM ET, *Gross Domestic Prod...
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Nuclear fuel: an important development - Yesterday I met a senior DESNZ type who was a bit miffed that there'd been very little coverage of this announcement from January - *UK invests in high...4 days ago
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Historic Chart of the Day - Based on today's Census Bureau report on April retail sales, consumer spending at "*Food Services and Drinking Places*" (restaurants and bars, see red li...
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If You're Not the Hunter, Are You the Hunted? - I’ve always had a morbid fascination with systemic faults and those that game them. LOR and portfolio insurance. BARRA risk models. Valeant/Shkreli in phar...3 years ago
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A Different Perspective on “Climate Change and Globalization” - Dr. Kenny’s article breaks with libertarian principles (and textbook insights from Pigouvian economics) by endorsing the goal of “net zero” CO2 emissions a...8 hours ago
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Of Groups, Intersections, and the People Who Inhabit Them - Jacob T. Levy The powerful norms and rules that structured life in the American South during slavery and Jim Crow not only prohibited sex between black me...3 years ago
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What is Boris Johnson’s Strategy? - (I am trying to organize my thinking in this post.) Three things to bear in mind (first two are facts and the third is an assumption): It is no longer poss...4 years ago
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China's Recent Trade Deficit: Is What You Yuan What You're Gonna Get? - China is self-evidently both a minefield and a potential graveyard for would-be global economists, the sort of place where reputations are made and lost in...
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China: Choosing More Debt, More Unemployment, Or Transfers - I have often written in this blog and elsewhere about the three policy choices Beijing faces as it tries to manage through the adjustment process. My argum...7 years ago
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A Former Expat on China: Grim - 1. LaoWhy86 on YouTube Spent the last few days catching up on my China reading and viewing, mostly those articles and videos friends, clients and readers w...3 years ago
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Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated - My piece in Wired The post Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more co...1 year ago
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Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...6 years ago
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India markets face an 'inevitable' correction if Modi's election win disappoints, Bernstein says - The results of India's general elections could be the reason for a correction in the Indian stock market, according to Bernstein.1 hour ago
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Background Readings on Organizational Wokeness - Last year, Charles Lehman and I wrote pieces for the Autumn 2021 issue of City Journal (Charles’s essay, my essay) giving organizational explanations for t...1 year ago
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How to pick your battles this Anzac Day | Fiona Katauskas - Some people are always ready for a fight - See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...1 hour ago
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This bookseller deserved his incitement to terrorism conviction | Matthew Tariq Wilkinson - I was a witness in Ahmed Faraz's trial – this is the first time anyone involved has spoken about what really happened The trial and conviction last Decembe...11 years ago
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Is heavy taxation bad for the economy? - Taxes reduce the payoff to entrepreneurship, investment, and work effort. If taxation is too heavy, these disincentives will weaken a nation’s economy. But...12 years ago
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Long Live the Future - This is the last of more than a thousand columns published in the Express, which began when Denis Jambart and Christophe Barbier, asked me to be one of the...4 years ago
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111. Righteous Mind Follow-Up - Note: This post is the one hundred and eleventh in a series about government and commercial ethics. Click here for the full listing of the series. The firs...8 years ago
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Creative Destruction in Small Business Bankruptcy - Two distantly related items caught my eye this morning, as both reinforce the need for "creative destruction" as a response to all-too-common small busines...7 months ago
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Goodbye to Credit Writedowns - Good morning everyone, I have some exciting — and also – sad news to tell you today. First, I am going to Bloomberg as a Senior Editor. And I am going to...2 years ago
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Crisis Talk is Moving! - Dear Crisis Talk readers, In an act of consolidation and collaboration, Crisis Talk is merging with the World Bank's Private Sector Development blog, where...14 years ago
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Morning News: May 23, 2023 - Russia Pushes India for Help to Avert Global Financial Isolation Australia Tries to Break Its Dependence on China for Lithium Mining Saudi Energy Minister ...11 months ago
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Asset Class and Factor Premium Performances Across Inflation Regimes [PREMIUM] - How should investors reposition portfolios across inflationary regimes (deflation, low inflation, mild inflation, high inflation)? In their July 2022, pa...1 year ago
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Save pdf smaller size mac online - High image quality, bring your ideas to life save pdf smaller size mac online beautiful presentations. and instantly got the shrunken file! Although the de...6 years ago
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ICYMI: House GOP’s ready to admit defeat, Tennessee wants teachers packing heat - *The Supreme Court is hearing another abortion case. What could go wrong?* It’s just people’s lives on the line. *GOP lawmakers vote to arm teachers a ye...9 hours ago
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Maximize the Resale Value of Your Car - Filed under: Travel Industry, Did You Know Did you know... There are some easy things you can do to get more money for your used car, with a little less ...7 years ago
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IEA World Congress 2021 - A few words on the International Economics’ Association online World Congress, July 2-6, on the theme “Equity, Sustainability and Prosperity in a Fractured...2 years ago
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Record immigration - so why do we still have labour shortages? - My regular column is available to subscribers on www.thetimes.co.uk This is an excerpt. Not to be reproduced without permission. Readers may know, if they ...4 months ago
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DealBook Briefing: Will G.O.P. Leaders Come Up With 50 Votes? - Republican party leaders are racing to shore up wavering lawmakers who are requesting more help for high-earning business owners.6 years ago
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Review Game Slot online Terbaru “Slot Royal Mint: Mudah Menang - Permainan slot online telah menjadi hiburan favorit banyak orang, menawarkan kegembiraan dan peluang menang besar. Salah satu tambahan terbaru dalam kancah...1 day ago
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calculated risk calls a bottom - with some qualifications, but a bottom call nevertheless. this is not to be taken lightly. bill is the best working commentator on US housing markets, and ...12 years ago
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Using Software to Assist Speech Impediments - It just dawned on me using my Apple Watch that you could use a simple tweak to improve dictation software, probably really easily. You just create a datase...3 weeks ago
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The Miral Scale: measuring the ideas in the heads of humanity and why Facebook is a 9.17 - The Miral Scale is a way of measuring how many people in a given time in the human species share a collective concept or idea. As the world becomes more co...13 years ago
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New Blog Site - Going forward the blog posts can be read on our firm's website at the following link: - HORAN Market Commentary Blog2 years ago
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Options Action: OptionApps Top 5 for 2017-06-28 - Options Action: OptionApps Top 5 for 2017-06-28 Academic Algorithms: ( Term LT-ST Difference ) Ticker Stock Name Close Difference 1 CAMP CALAMP CO...6 years ago
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A New Solution for Taxing Cryptocurrency Staking - Taxing digital assets poses many tax policy puzzles. So many, in fact, that the Senate Finance Committee recently asked for advice on how to do it. I have ...8 months ago
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After Nine Years and 2,810 Posts, a Dot Earth Farewell - After nine years and 2,810 posts, a blog seeking a sustainable path for humans on a finite planet comes to an end.7 years ago
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Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...6 years ago
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Cryptocurrencies - Yet much like millennials will never have a landline, a coming generation might do without bank accounts thanks to secure, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency tran...6 years ago
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Les Etats-Unis à la croisée des chemins (3) : l’immigration - Avant même d’aborder les aspects spécifiques de la non-politique d’immigration des Etats-Unis, il est important de se rappeler deux éléments fondamentaux :...3 weeks ago
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Wisconsin in Last Place for Start-up Activity - The Kauffman Foundation has just released its report on startup activity. Wisconsin comes in last place in startup density. Figure 1: Source: Kauffman Foun...7 years ago
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How to Believe in Free Speech - Almost all libertarians earnestly say, "I believe in free speech." Normally, though, this goes way beyond the right to speak freely. Most libertarians al...5 years ago
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The Money Illusion, "Immaculate Disinflation," & Chubby Checker - ECRI's Lakshman Achuthan spoke with Forex Analytix's Dale Pinkert about the crosscurrents around growth and inflation. Our cyclical framework continues to ...1 year ago
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I am still alive - I logged in for the first time in years. I am surprised by the sustained traffic this blog is still getting after all those years, and this tempts me to pi...3 years ago
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Inflation—sources, consequences, and appropriate policy remedies - Several very good primers were recently written on how to think about inflation in the coming months. But as the reaction to monthly price inflation number...2 years ago
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It Is What It Is: The war in Ukraine did not have to happen. - Economic Principals has followed developments in Russia at a distance since 1989; more closely since 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved; with active i...1 week ago
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Let’s Talk About Tax, Baby - Dear Incoming Members of Congress from the Tea Party, Do you like clean tap water? How about our scenic and toll-free interstate highways? Do you think 911...13 years ago
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On the Revisions to Basel III’s Liquidity Requirements - So the Basel Committee finally released its revisions to the all-important Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which I have written about at length. Most of th...11 years ago
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Global economic recovery stuck below takeoff speed - *By Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda* The global economic recovery remains stuck below takeoff speed, unable to achieve liftoff and facing the risk of stallin...11 years ago
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Q&A: The Fed’s Rate Cut - Answering some basic questions, and some big ones, about today's rate cut.15 years ago
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The Case Against Using the CAPE Ratio for Relative Valuation Across Markets - Bloomberg has an article You May Regret Staying Parked in U.S. Stocks which made the case that there’s "widespread agreement" and "the answer isn’t in di...
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Leisure to Attend to Our Spiritual Business - ABSTRACT: Time is central to Martin Hägglund’s discussion of secular faith and spiritual freedom. Time is precisely what is finite in this life and pre...
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Suspected rebel officers jailed in Ecuador - AFP QUITO — A judge ordered 14 police officers held in preventive detention as court proceedings began against the alleged perpetrators of a rebellion in E...13 years ago
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I Am Losing a Beloved Friend to Alzheimer’s, Even as She Remains Very Much Alive. - I wrote this essay in July 2015, and it ran on xoJane. In the meantime, xoJane has been shuttered, and the place is crawling with ads, and who knows how lo...7 years ago
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Official NGDPLT peg calculations for Q42023 - (copied from GitHub) NGDP was $27,938.8 billion, per Table 3 (p. 10), line 1, column 6 of the advance GDP report, which came out Thursday at 1330Z. Per ...2 months ago
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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn - LinkedIn Emre, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Emre Emre Deliveli Freelance Consultant & Economics Columnist at 'Self-Emp...12 years ago
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Transforming governance for a stronger Pakistan - [image: Transforming Governance for a Stronger Pakistan]*A beneficiary at the Arazi (Land Records Authority) center. Photo: World Bank**This blog is part ...4 years ago
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Tell Congress: Introduce Legislation That Takes A Modernized Approach to Sudan - To counter the policies and actions of the Bashir regime, the United States should employ enhanced and modernized U.S. sanctions in combination with oth...6 years ago
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The Japanisation Of Europe - By now it should be clear that the monetary experiment currently being carried out in Japan (known as “Abenomics”) is fundamentally different from the kind...
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Check Out the Growing Band of Bloggers at NYSE Exchanges - Popping back onto our old about-to-go-dark platform for just a minute to gently remind you that our band of bloggers grows bigger by the day on our new N...13 years ago
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Goldman Sachs: Hey, We’re the Good Guys! - Goldman Sachs responds to a column suggesting that it has the taxpayers to thank for its recent profits.14 years ago
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The search for the best middle-class tax cut - Say you want to help struggling middle-class families by cutting their taxes. Say you want to figure out an actually helpful plan to do that, and not just ...8 years ago
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Why Evolution is False - Recently deceased philosopher Daniel Dennett called Darwin's idea of natural selection the best idea anyone ever had, a universal solvent that melts awa...9 hours ago
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Volatility Lessons - By Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French The high volatility of stock returns is common knowledge, but many investors may not fully appreciate the implicati...5 years ago
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Post Felix - Today is Felix’s last day at Reuters. Counterparties may have been the brainchild of Felix and the recently departed Ryan McCarthy, but the blog, site, new...9 years ago
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FedEx Saved From Bankruptcy With Blackjack Winnings - Business Insider - How I missed this for all these years is beyond me, but it fits my classes PERFECTLY!! When you have nothing to lose, you might as well take big risks! Se...6 years ago
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INTC: Look Ahead to June 2011 Quarterly Results - This post describes our model of Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) Income Statement for fiscal 2011's second quarter, which will end on 2 July 2011. The purpose of ...12 years ago
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In Europe, Auto Sales Are Still Low, But They Are Rising - New car sales are up by more than 10 percent in Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal, which signals stronger economic growth there, even if sales are still ...10 years ago
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China Still Wants To Import Commodities, Not Manufactures (Judging From The “Early Harvest” Trade Deal) - China tends to import natural resources—oil, iron ore, soybeans and the like. Now that China has a large industrial economy,...6 years ago
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Live tweeting the Friday Night Dump - We are now offering a subset of our Pro data via Twitter. Find out more by clicking here: https://premosocial.com/footnotedFND6 years ago
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Freakonomics Radio Network’s 2022 Staff Picks - To celebrate a wonderful year of production on all of the shows in our network, we asked our staff to choose their favorite episode of the year. Lyric Bo...1 year ago
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Religious competition was to blame for Europe’s witch hunts - Many children are still persecuted as alleged witches in Africa for similar reasons5 years ago
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Talking with Matt Rousu about the right to earn a living - I talked the other day with Professor Matt Rousu of Susquehanna University about the right to earn a living--why it's such an important part of human freed...7 months ago
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Joel Miller on Books & Reading - Joel Miller of Miller’s Book Review Substack reads and reviews a prodigious number of books for this regular Substack. Joel formerly served as vice preside...14 hours ago
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If you can’t beat them, join them - Zopa is uniquely placed... Continue reading: If you can’t beat them, join them7 years ago
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Markets & Trump - Brouwer & Janachowski November 9, 2016 This Week: Markets settling down. Probably less disruption than the headlines imply. As we write in the morning se...7 years ago
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I giovani e l’ostilità a Renzi hanno spinto il No al trionfo - L’80% dei giovani ha votato No al referendum costituzionale. Lo rileva un’analisi dell’istituto QuorumSas, curata per SkyTG24. Tra gli under 34, il bacino ...7 years ago
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100 Positive News from 2023 - Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily f...4 months ago
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Ordinary Perople Versus Corporate Bullies - The Overstock.com slo-mo train wreck continued last night, with its resident stalker, the so-called "director of social media" Judd Bagley, reiterating a t...
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China economic reforms may result in $14.4 trillion GDP, growth at 6 percent – Asia Society report - Sweeping economic reform initiated by China President Xi Jinping in November 2013 marked a turning point for the world's second biggest economy. If impleme...9 years ago
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BahaMar, a flagging economy and more bad news! - The BahaMar Mega Resort project in The Bahamas has hit a snag. Its developer, Mr. Sarkis Izmirilian, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US state of Del...
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Moving on - Moving on Finally, at long last, I can tell you what I've been up to with finding a new home for this blog. I've created a new, community-based science b...13 years ago
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Renewable energy not as costly as some think - The other day Marshall and Sol took on Bjorn Lomborg for ignoring the benefits of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed. But Bjorn, among others, is a...
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Biden takes a wrong step - I was sorry to see President Biden threaten steel tariffs on antidumping grounds. For my views on this topic, see this old piece I wrote with Phill Swage...6 days ago
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Young Israelis go to prison rather than take part in the Gaza War - Hi, my name is Einat Gerlitz, and last year I refused to serve in the Israeli military. A year ago, I was imprisoned in military prison for 87 days for re...3 weeks ago
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Labour Still Investigating Diane Abbott - An entire year has passed since the Labour Party suspended Diane Abbott pending investigation for setting up her own handy racism hierarchy. *Soon enough...12 hours ago
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Impact of Zero Tolerance Laws - According to the 2019 NSDUH survey, 27.7 percent of 18-22 year olds who are not enrolled in college full-time and 33.0% of 18-22 year old full-time college...3 hours ago
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Cole-Frieman & Mallon 2024 Q1 Update - April 19, 2024 Clients, Friends, and Associates: As we end the first quarter and enter the spring season, we would like to highlight some of the recent ind...5 days ago
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Behind the Democrats’ Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump - Jeffrey Toobin writes about the case brought by congressional Democrats against President Donald Trump based on the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
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The Origins: ‘History of Economics’ and History of Economics in Russia - This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) – the university I was affiliated with in 2000-2017, first as a student, then ...6 years ago
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Holde Kunst Review: Robin Holloway's Essays And Diversions II - After thumbing through this (as originally published) expensive book at Borders, and choosing not to pay $50 for it, *Essays and Diversions II* has remai...13 years ago
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Pennymac posts first-quarter profit of $39M - Loan production income shrank in the first quarter, but the company’s servicing business continues to grow3 hours ago
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A V-shaped rebound, or dead cat bounce? - *Mid-week market update*: I presented this chart on the weekend and rhetorically asked if the inevitable market bounce would be durable. Since then, the S&...
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Speaking trip this April - I'm speaking at Libertycon in Tbilisi on April 20th, will probably either go or come via London. Anyone interested in a talk? I'll probably be in Europe ...2 months ago
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The Friday OT: Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim and the Berliner Philharmoniker do Beethoven's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - You can watch it and listen to it here: The *YouTube is here.* Make 47 minutes of your Friday afternoon as good as the 47 minutes I had this morning. Jus...
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How Africa Can Escape Chronic Food Insecurity Amid Climate Change - The toll of extreme weather events on crops underscores the region’s challenges and need for policies to save lives and protect livelihoods.1 year ago
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Herding, Risk Appetite & Complacency Somewhat "Elevated"....... - 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...
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.Astronomy - So here I am at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) just outside Madrid for a conference called .Astronomy 13. It is (obviously) the thirteenth such...
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Incentives Matter, Indeed - Friend Ennyman rights a great piece on the role of incentives, here's the conclusion: "Whether it's meeting deadlines, forming good habits in our children ...7 years ago
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Cash transfers in other countries - Here’s a Newsweek story about cash transfer programs in Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico. A mostly favorable story, too. Of course there’s no mention of th...13 years ago
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Glenn Luk: China’s economic evolution, GDP, and high speed rail — Manifold #58 - Glenn Luk has worked as an investment banker, private equity investor, and startup founder. He has closely analyzed aspects of the Chinese economy, includ...
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February - February is one of the most beautiful and painful songs ever written, by Dar Williams. March is nearly over already, and I didn’t write in January. But I’v...4 weeks ago
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The Surface: I Came, I Saw, I Left - I went to the Microsoft store in Times Square yesterday to see for myself the new Surface tablet with the spiffy keyboard, since nobody I know actually ...11 years ago
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FT column: The pitfalls of the Microsoft and Apple ‘frenemy’ pact - If you were surprised when a senior Microsoft executive took the stage at Apple’s latest product launch last week, you need to brace yourself for more of...8 years ago
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Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...3 days ago
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Impeach President Trump, again - I agree with the House impeachment resolution in full. The House should vote to impeach President Trump, again. Four years ago minus eight days, Donald J...3 years ago
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Dead rats and dopamine - a new publication - My new paper, coauthored with Yohan John, Dakota McCoy and Oliver Braganza, is out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. "Dead rats, dopamine, performance me...8 months ago
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Knowledge Problem archive 2002-2020 - This is the archive of the Knowledge Problem blog, all 4,690 posts. The search function will help you locate posts on the various topics Mike and I wrote a...1 year ago
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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution - Study confirms Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for mo...11 hours ago
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Fed. Dist. Court in CA Dismisses Plaintiff’s Takings Claims on Ripeness Grounds but allows Equal Protection Claims to Continue - This post was authored by Sebastian Perez, Esq. Patrick Lustig (“Plaintiff”) alleged the City violated his constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourte...2 weeks ago
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Fresh audio product: Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the rise of technofeudalism - Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 18, 2024 Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian...6 days ago
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Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living? - Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website, although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who use RSS sho...4 years ago
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It’s happening, Reid Hoffman AI twin edition, wwrgs? - Why did I deepfake myself? To see if conversing with an AI-generated version of myself can lead to self-reflection, new insights into my thought patterns...10 hours ago
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Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...6 years ago
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Mish Moved Off Blogger to MishTalk.Com - For Email Alerts Please Sign Up Again on MishTalk! - I announced on February 22 Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com. My needs outgrew blogger. The top r...8 years ago
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That's It For Today - This is my last post for the day. Starting in a few minutes we'll be replacing the guts of our website with something newer and better than what we have...6 years ago
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The Right Wants Glass-Steagall for the Wrong Reasons - It’s impossible to look at any single financial regulation without understanding the problem it is trying to solve and how it would hang together with th...7 years ago
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Mainkan di Server Slot Thailand Terbaik Kami - Bergabunglah dengan kami dan nikmati pengalaman bermain yang luar biasa di server slot … Read More8 years ago
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Where is the BREXIT impact in Europe? - The Bank of England moved today – and as it should! But when will the UK’s self-inflicted economic troubles seep into other markets and economies? Like ot...
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This Week’s Hype - Until about a year and a half ago, the way to get funding in physics was to somehow associate yourself to the hot trend of quantum computing and quantum in...1 day ago
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We’ve moved to www.nudges.org. Come with us. - Nudges.wordpress.com has been a great home for the Nudge blog over the past year and a half, but it’s time to move on. Where to? www.nudges.org. That’s rig...14 years ago
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The eyes have it - I hope I'm not stepping on Janie's post, I'm always grateful to her for keeping the home fires lit, but this article caught my eye as it were and I thought...1 week ago
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I am now at Temple of Sociology, a new substack please check it out - Hi, everyone: I am an Temple of Sociology over at substack. Please subscribe! Thank you.1 year ago
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Culture As A Cruel Master - Thomas Carlyle famously warned against stuff that is “a good tool to have as a slave, but a bad master to be ruled by." Consider applying this warning to c...2 days ago
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Examining the relationship between women’s empowerment and gender-based violence: The case of the Nigeria For Women Project - Contrary to common belief, evidence suggests that women’s empowerment may increase the risks of gender-based violence, at least in the short term. This...4 years ago
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Twitter Digest: 2013-06-09 - Given that I block NSA & PRISM tweets, was entertaining tuning into twitter & trying to figure why everyone was on about Lord Snowdon -> Turned on GoT toni...10 years ago
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Sir Bob Geldof, We Who Are About To Thrive Salute You! - A big, big thank you from those of us who wanted out of the EU to: *Lord Stuart Rose*, leader of the Remain camp, for his timely confession *David Cameron...7 years ago
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Peston Picks is moving - My blog is dead. Long live the new blog. Or to put it another way, my page - and those of other BBC bloggers - is having a makeover. So if you don't want t...12 years ago
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It's the season - The very long U.S. election season is here. What to keep on mind? Two things strike me as fundamental. 1. Knowledge is complex and dispersed. This means t...4 years ago
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Parsing the Fed: How the January Statement Changed From December - See exactly how the statement from Fed policy makers changed.3 years ago
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Fives Steps Toward Fairness in College Admissions - The recent scandal has brought a spotlight on the long-term issues of unfair college admissions,. Once you get past the outright criminality of this incid...
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How to Fall Out of the Middle Class - These three things often trigger downward mobility.13 years ago
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Moved Over - I’ve been blogging away over at my new blog at Next New Deal, come join me over there! Here’s the new rss feed. I might post here once in a great while, m...11 years ago
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Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. - Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever10 years ago
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Let’s just defund the UN and leave it immediately - Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s...2 months ago
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How Do We Celebrate Passover this Year? - From my weekly email message to Tzedek Chicago members: So many people have told me that they are not sure how – or even if – they will celebrate Passover ...5 days ago
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If something can't go on forever, it will stop - This is my last post at/as Shock Minus Control. As I mentioned in my December post, my youngest son (now 7 months) had a congenital heart defect repaired a...14 years ago
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Goldman Sachs comes late to the game - The Financial Times ran a story Monday about Goldman Sachs becoming the first big dealer to orient its business around electronic fixed-income trading and ...12 years ago
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My Passover press release - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From the university campuses of Assyria to the thoroughfares of Ur to the palaces of the Hittite Empire, students across the Fertil...2 days ago
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Another New Value Investing Hedge Fund Job Post - Hi Everyone, I haven’t posted in a long time but another close group of friends are looking for a junior analyst and I want to help them out. If you are in...8 years ago
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Muni Madness - "Investors are ignoring warning signs in the $2.8 trillion municipal-bond market, raising the risk of a reckoning, according to some market specialists. Nu...13 years ago
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University of Warwick Job Search: Research Fellow in OHRM - [link to the job post at WBS’s site: University of Warwick Job Search: Research Fellow in OHRM (104809-1221) (wcn.co.uk)] We are seeking to recruit a PostD...2 years ago
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Henry Simons and pre-World War libertarianism. - I just posted this piece on a libertarian-affiliated U of Chicago website. Based on a 2013 article that I wrote concerning Henry Simons. It discusses th...3 weeks ago
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Solar Geoengineering To Cool the Planet: Is It Worth the Risks? - Once considered a crazy idea, solar geothermal engineering is gaining acceptance in some circles. But it's not without drawbacks.13 hours ago
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For that price he could’ve had 54 Jamaican beef patties or 1/216 of a conference featuring Gray Davis, Grover Norquist, and a rabbi - It’s the eternal question . . . what do you want, if given these three options: (a) 54 Jamaican beef patties (b) 1/216 of a conference featuring a collecti...15 hours ago
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Moving on - Stephanomics is dead. Long live Stephanomics. Today's news is that this blog is moving to a new home with a fresh format. I know, change is hard, but they ...12 years ago
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A Simple Solution to the Banking Crisis That No Country Will Implement - Though Silicon Valley Bank contributed to its own demise, the root cause of this crisis is the fact that private banks own government bonds. If they didn’t...1 year ago
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Why Do Governments Repeatedly Engage in Energy and Environmental Boondoggles? - In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith famously wrote: By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hotwalls, very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good ...4 days ago
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Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...7 months ago
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Bonds And Money - The US bond market is getting hammered lately as investors and traders realize that (a) the economy is not collapsing and (b) the Fed will keep rates hig...
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Why I have an OpenAI subscription - It's $20 per month. Here are the features I value and use: - Others' custom GPTs - My own custom GPTs - Integration into email (Thunderbird) a...2 weeks ago
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Announcement - So it is with some sadness that I have to announce that I’m going to be leaving True/Slant. Starting in a few days I will be back blogging exclusively at w...13 years ago
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Update: A Tax Compromise Offered in Illinois - Earlier this month I highlighted a potential tax compromise brewing in Illinois. State senate Republicans and Democrats released a proposal to increase I...7 years ago
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Dissenter Weekly: Leak Prosecutions Against BLM Protesters, Police Whistleblower In Illinois - On this edition of the “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola provides an update on NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who is inca...3 years ago
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A few thoughts - I know I haven’t been blogging for a while. I also haven’t been tweeting. I am shut out of X-Twitter because of two factor authentication issues. As such, ...3 months ago
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Help wanted: incrementalist systems builder - a.k.a Toolsmith a.k.a. Geek To help forecast a hot CE product in one of the world’s largest retailers (located in Seattle). Apply within.12 years ago
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Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun - Heidi Levine/Sipa/Pool via AP Benjamin Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, September 17, 2019 Anyone expecting clarity from Israel’s electoral re...4 years ago
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The Man Who Moves Markets - Carson Block uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now he’s under investigation himself. Is he the hero of Wall Street, or the villain?1 year ago
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Rationalizing the Discussion on Migration and Policy - |Peter Boettke| Michael Clemens is one of the most powerful voices in the economics profession for the free flow of people throughout the world. He brings ...1 year ago
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A Student Journalist Explains the Protests at Yale - The editor-in-chief and president of the Yale Daily News reports on the arrest of fellow-students on campus this week.
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A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...11 months ago
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Getting beyond the OK Plataues with 'deliberate practice' - *When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend*. In fact, in every d...12 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner9 years ago
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Japan Finally Got Inflation. Nobody Is Happy About It. - After 25 years of deflation, the public is mad about price rises.3 months ago
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At The Money: Bill McBride on What Data Matters and What Doesn’t - At the Money: What Data Matters and What Doesn’t (April 24, 2024) Bill McBride has spent the past 20 years taking apart economic data, creating “o...16 hours ago
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Database Basics - Some textbooks used in Database basic courses; A First Course in Database Systems (3rd edition) by Ullman and Widom Database Management Systems (3rd edi...12 years ago
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Matty Healy says he hasn't 'really listened' to Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department,' the most streamed album in the world right now - "Oh! I haven't really listened to that much of it, but I'm sure it's good," Healy said of Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department."22 minutes ago
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Sweet! The Smooth Rise of Non-Bitter Not-Quite-Beer Beverages - We’ve all heard about how quickly America’s craft beer market is growing. Two traditional beer alternatives—hard ciders and fruity malt alcoholic beverages...10 years ago
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It Is Accomplished - As Gandhi never quite said, First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win. I remember one of the first TV debates I had...8 years ago
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Hyper-inflated arepa index reaches all time high (again) - My only remaining connection to Venezuela is the arepa index, also called the hyper-inflated arepa index, which was created as a way of keeping tabs on inf...6 years ago
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Short Selling, Profit Protection, Chowder Rule: What You Need to Know [Podcast] - Easy solutions can involve serious risks. Here’s what to consider before doing Short Selling, Profit Protection, and the Chowder Rule. Download the Divid...18 hours ago
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Out of Service - *I met a traveller from an antique landWho said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a ...
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The Oil Drum writers: Where are they now? - - Nate Hagens is at The Monkey Trap - JoulesBurn (Brian Maschhoff) is at Picojoule - Euan Mearns is at Energy Matters - Heading Out (Dave...10 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/5 years ago
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So, who are the wealthy who must be taxed? - Over and above the usual answer of those who have £5 more than the person being asked of course. One is that you can save a lot. Your proportion of volun...20 hours ago
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Assorted on India - India’s growth in the 2000s: Four facts The rupee: Frequently asked questions Talk is cheap Conclusion: there is precious little fundamental reason for...
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The Four Right Strivings for Today’s World - We need to develop a samyak-pradhāna (Four Right Strivings) for today’s world: Right Antagonism Right Negativity, Right Resentment, Right Closedmindedness....6 years ago
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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right Assignment Help Service: What Students Need to Know - Are you a student feeling overwhelmed by the never-ending pile of assignments? Do you find yourself struggling to meet deadlines and maintain high grades...3 months ago
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Go On Till You Come to the End; Then Stop - Go On Till You Come to the End; Then Stop ScienceBlogs is coming to an end. I don't know that there was ever a really official announcement of this, but t...6 years ago
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Popper and Parfit: the minds of philosophers - Derek Parfit hit the philosophy firmament in the early 1960s, while Karl Popper arrived on the Vienna scene three decades earlier. David Edmonds' biogra...
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity - The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US financial system ...6 years ago
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We've Moved! - If you're reading this, it means you've been following the http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com address. We switched over to WordPress, and from now on...12 years ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...4 years ago
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Save pdf smaller size mac online - High image quality, bring your ideas to life save pdf smaller size mac online beautiful presentations. and instantly got the shrunken file! Although the de...6 years ago
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Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...2 years ago
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Bank of England Speeds Through Bond Buys - Two weeks after buying its first corporate bond, the Bank of England has already spent over 10% of the funds allocated to its 18 month asset-buying program.7 years ago
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Modeled Behavior’s RSS Feed - Hopefully within the next day or two we will be able to get Modeled Behavior.com to redirect to our Forbes Blog. Yet, it looks as if there is no way to ge...11 years ago
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