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Viper Energy Shows How Not to Win Over New Shareholders - It's prudent that prospective shareholders invest time in due diligence before taking the plunge and purchasing shares or units in any company. This invest...
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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...6 years ago
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I’ve Moved Onchain - Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore. So I am starting a series called “I’ve Mov...8 months ago
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Friday links: unimportant differences - Markets - The equity risk premium is negative. (bloomberg.com) - The seven pillars of market bubbles. (acadian-asset.com) Crypto - Fidelity...6 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...14 years ago
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Corporate ETFs and Risk Appetite - Via Bloomberg : Bond ETFs Awash in Pain May Be Red Flag for Risk Appetite (1) 2018-01-22 14:56:05.415 GMT By Dani Burger and Sid Verma (Bloomberg) — U.S. c...6 years ago
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Bullish Breakouts and Trend Continuity in 2017 - In the heat of battle, it’s often helpful to raise your perspective to higher ground. That’s what we’re doing here with the clear price patterns and breako...7 years ago
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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen? - Oliver Kim - Why did the Industrial Revolution happen? Why, for the past two centuries, have hundreds of millions of people moved off the farm and into factories? St...3 weeks 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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Markets in everything: using Coasean bargains to resolve culture conflicts - by Samrudha Surana and Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah. Introduction In pluralistic societies with multiple, and often conflicting, cultural, religious, or ethical...1 week 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...1 year ago
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Médicos y enfermeras siguen haciendo su trabajo, mientras los incendios jaquean el sistema de salud de Los Ángeles - Los incendios que se propagan rápidamente y han transformado gran parte del condado de Los Ángeles en un infierno están poniendo a prueba a hospitales, clí...
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Robert Manne’s political memoir (and how he played a minor part in my career) - In the break-up of Australia’s anti-communist political alliance, in the early 1990s after the end of European communism, Robert Manne and I took different...1 week ago
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The US labor market in the post-COVID recovery. Can this cycle continue being different? - After a long period where the US labor market outperformed even some of the more optimistic predictions, the July 2024 numbers came in below expectations...
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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.11 years ago
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Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Taxes--especially Wealth Taxes and Mark-to-Market of Capital Gains - Not surprisingly for those of you who are members of the ABA Tax Section, there is a meeting of that group next week in Florida when a thousand tax lawyers...4 years ago
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Is Carbon Dioxide Removal the Next Stock Market Bubble? - According to the New York Times, carbon dioxide removal tech is “the new climate gold rush.” Investors have poured billions of dollars into the tech, and m...
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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...11 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.6 years ago
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"Is Israel A Theocracy?" - This may seem a rather abstract question, given the headlines, but I suspect that the growing culture war will be front and center once the guns fall si...
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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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20 years later - I created this blog in September 2004 with no particular purpose other than to write a bit about Latin America and foreign policy. I'm writing more at Su...3 months ago
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November Jobs Report Seals the Deal for December Lift-Off - The juxtaposition of last week’s weak IMS Manufacturing Report and the desire of the FOMC, finally, to get off the dime reminds me, somehow, of an old joke...9 years ago
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Here are the dumbest 911 calls of last year - [image: image: gioele piccinini/Shutterstock] The Saskatchewn RCMP released the below video of 911 operators reviewing the dumbest calls they received in 2...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/...9 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...2 years 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. ...7 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...8 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.10 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...1 year ago
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Monetary policy trumps tariffs - There's no need to worry about Trump's threatened tariffs causing another bout of inflation. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon that can only be caused by ...
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Goldman on Employment Report and FOMC - A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note: Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well above consensus expectations. ... The household survey was...1 hour ago
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At last, the 2025 Predictions Compo! - OK, here we go for 2025. In keeping with tradition, answers on a postcard BTL, if you please. * * * * * 1. Name of first sitting MP defecting ...3 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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Could Progressives Have Done More to Prevent Nasty Populism? - @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 115% } The rise of populism has caused both left and right to indict centrist’s seeming embra...5 years ago
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California Insurance Market: Another Victim of the War on Prices - California’s price controls on insurance have turned a wildfire crisis into an insurance market catastrophe, leaving homeowners unprotected and the state-r...3 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...4 years ago
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Comey, the New York Times, Obama and the Lucas Critique: Ethical Leadership in the Presence of Political Constraints - There is a sender and two receivers, L and R. The sender has information, the state of the world, and can also make a decision. There is a socially optimal...6 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...8 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...4 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...2 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...7 years ago
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Amazon workers strike across seven facilities at peak of holiday shopping season - Amazon workers at seven facilities in New York, Georgia, California and Illinois went on strike on Thursday.3 weeks ago
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Drop list elements if - I am doing a simulation in R that generates a list of simulated data objects and then simulates emergent behavior on them. Unfortunately, it chokes on “dat...5 years ago
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Trump’s conviction is the latest twist in the Maga story | Lloyd Green - The supreme court order may also be a harbinger of what awaits the US over the next four years: litigation that again divides the judiciary and the natio...3 hours 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...12 years ago
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What’s the best type of healthcare system? - If we’re going to improve our healthcare system, it’s worth looking closely at the experiences of other rich democratic countries. There are two principal ...5 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...5 years ago
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110. Great Expectations: The Implacable Externality - *I saw a sign in front of a shop the other day that read, "We will exceed your expectations." So I walked in expecting them to exceed my expectations. By t...10 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...1 year 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...3 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...15 years ago
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Reasons for pessimism in Europe - Those of us who live in Europe have reason to be very pessimistic about the next four years. The state that Europeans have relied upon as their security gu...13 hours ago
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Morning News: December 3, 2024 - Welcome to the Post-American New World Disorder Will Trump’s Dollar Diplomacy Roil Global Trade? China Targets Critical Metals in Tit-for-Tat Response to U...5 weeks 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...2 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...7 years ago
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GOP eyes axing popular programs to cut taxes for the rich - House Republicans have put out a list of items they want to cut from the federal budget in order to pay for Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich—all of w...1 hour 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 ...8 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...3 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 ...1 year 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.7 years ago
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Panduan Penggunaan Pola Gacor Slot Saat Bermain Game Koi Gate - Game slot online Koi Gate menjadi daya tarik bagi para pecinta judi daring dengan tema oriental yang menarik dan peluang kemenangan yang menggiurkan. Bagi ...5 months 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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mtDNA Presentation - I’ve put together a presentation summarizing some of my work on mtDNA for a Meetup event, which is available here. Because this is a summary, it’s really e...21 hours 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...14 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 Blog3 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...7 years ago
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Brainteasers From My Dad - When my sister and I were little, our Dad would challenge us with riddles and word games. I mentioned three in my eulogy for Dad: 1. Imagine a two-volume d...5 years 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.8 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...7 years ago
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La France au bord d’un gouffre financier ? - € 3.000.000.000.000 d’endettement « Après « une très mauvaise année » 2023, les finances publiques françaises sont dans « une situation inquiétante » et la...3 months 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...8 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...6 years ago
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New Growth Rate Cycle Date Determined for the U.S. - Today ECRI is announcing May 2016 as a new growth rate cycle trough date for the U.S. Growth rate cycles are alternating periods of accelerating and decele...7 years ago
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Not dead yet - Sorry for not posting, but I just cannot find the time and will to do so at the moment. And to be frank, I have seen rather little research worth reporting...10 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...3 years ago
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Settling Up - This is the final weekly edition of Economic Principals. A new monthly version will commence Sunday June 2, and thereafter arrive on the first Sunday of ...8 months 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...14 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.16 years ago
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Mind the Gap? Rethinking the Investor Gap Equation - Morningstar released the latest version of Mind the Gap, an annual piece which shares with its readers analysis that "measures the costs of bad timing". I...
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever - Above, from *On Biblical Subjects,* by Robert Dodsley, a lift the flap illustrated manuscript circa 1720 (sold for £20,000 in 2021). Robert Dodsley's son...
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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...14 years ago
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Today’s Jerusalem: Neither eternal, nor undivided, nor holy. - I wrote the following for Haaretz (Israel’s newspaper of record) when I was still writing about Israel/Palestine. I decided to post it in full here, becaus...9 years ago
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Despite Tasci and Ice, I Still See an Increase in Structural Unemployment - *[Update: Corrected an error in my analysis, though it oddly turns out to have very little effect on the relevant results. Corrections are in italics. ...
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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...13 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 ...5 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...7 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...14 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.15 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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A Better Stablecoin on a Perp DEX - Creating a stablecoin position on a perp exchange is hard, but it should be easy. It not only caters to demand, but it also adds liquidity to perp marke...6 months ago
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Fama's Market - EFF: My undergraduate alma mater, Tufts University, features my life and academic career in their Winter 2014 magazine.10 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...10 years ago
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Excessive executive pay for plain dumb luck: Barry Ritholtz - Moneyweb - great for class discussion from Barry Ritholtz: Excessive executive pay for plain dumb luck: Barry Ritholtz - Moneyweb: "You can place much of the blame on...7 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 ...13 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,...7 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/footnotedFND7 years ago
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Congratulations to Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler! - It should surprise no one, and delight everyone, that Richard Thaler has won this year’s Nobel in economics. Congratulations! Thaler is a big reason I pe...7 years ago
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Improve your life by making huge decisions with a coin toss - New research on status quo bias provokes both thoughts and doubts8 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...1 year ago
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A Larger Category Than Political Allegiance - Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.13 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 them8 years ago
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Britain and Europe: The view from the FT archive - The UK’s four tumultuous decades of membership have fuelled controversy and featured huge change8 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...8 years ago
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Hillary Clinton prevale nell’ultimo dibattito TV, Trump manca la chance di ribaltare la situazione - Il candidato repubblicano rifiuta la concessione della sconfitta in caso di esito negativo martedì 8 novembre continua8 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...1 year ago
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Did You Know That Gary Weiss Speaks? - Yes, he does, or to put it another way, I do. My well-received speaking engagements have spanned many topics, from media bias in the Middle East to Ayn Ran...
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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...10 years ago
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Democratising public institutions: Reform needed! - If Bahamians got through the implementation of Value Added Tax, they can get through anything. Thus the confidence I have in reforming our public instituti...9 years ago
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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...14 years ago
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Paul Krugman on Food Economics - Paul Krugman doesn't typically write about food, so I was a little surprised to see this. Still, I think he got most things right, at least by my way of...
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The Case for More H1B Visas - Apparently, there is an ongoing debate in Trumpworld about whether more H1B visas are a good thing. From an economic perspective, the answer is a clear y...1 week ago
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Adam Keller in Berlin, Sept 5-8, 2024 - Adam Keller in Berlin, Sept 5-8 Dear Friends The political and non-political decorations accumulated over several decades on the walls of my modest apa...4 months ago
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First Tory-Reform Local Coalition a “One-Off” - Reform has officially entered into a local coalition in Lee Anderson’s constituency Ashfield District council. Councillor Dawn Justice, who defected from...5 hours ago
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How big is the 2025 Medicare rate cut for physicians? - At the end of last year, CMS finalized a rate cut for Medicare reimbursement to physicians. The CMS Fact Sheet states: …average payment rates under the PFS...20 hours ago
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Cole-Frieman & Mallon 2024 End of Year Update - December 13, 2024 Clients, Friends, and Associates: As we near the end of 2024, we have highlighted in this update certain recent industry developments tha...4 weeks 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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2016 as a ten-letter word - In the end of November, as it is the case every year since 2004, Oxford Dictionaries revealed their choice for the word of the year. For 2016, they settled...8 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...14 years ago
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As LA fires burn, reverse mortgage industry emphasizes need for servicer, insurer contacts - Los Angeles County has the highest concentration of HECM borrowers in the country, and the industry is moving to respond.29 minutes ago
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A tale of two markets - *Mid-week market update*: When we last left the stock market on the weekend, the bulls were given a homework assignment (see A failed Santa rally, what now...
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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 ...11 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.2 years 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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The Fires of Los Angeles - The wildfires that broke out on 7th January in various parts of Los Angeles have now been raging for three days and, initially driven by very high winds, h...
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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...14 years ago
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Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...7 months ago
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China has much to teach us. John Roberts does not. - So, I don’t really write here any more. I write at drafts.interfluidity.com instead. Please follow that feed or subscribe by e-mail. I do still offer perio...4 months 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 ...12 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...9 years ago
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Y2K: Apocalypse averted or pointless panic ? - Safe to say this issue will never be resolved Twenty-five years ago, the world waited for the dawn of a new millennium (a few pedants grumbled that the mil...3 days ago
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Observations on the Financial Crisis - For the five year anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, Ed Lazear and I have released a paper titled “Observations on the Financial Crisis,” publishe...11 years ago
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Predictions for the next decade in Behavioral Science - Behavioral Scientist have put together their favourite predictions, ideas, worries and challenges in the field of behavioral science for the next decade. W...4 years 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...2 years ago
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Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration - Meta, fresh off announcement to end factchecking, follows McDonald’s and Walmart in rolling back diversity initiatives Following a week in which Mark Zuc...1 hour ago
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PA Appeals Court Holds Nonconforming Drive-In Cannot Operate as a Campground and that such Use is Not a Valid Accessory Use - This post was authored by Brendan Sweeney, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center A drive-in theater was built in 1947 and began operating as such ...4 weeks ago
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Fresh audio product: the Y2K era, S Korea’s political crisis - Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 9, 2025 Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, on culture at the t...1 day 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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Noah Smith on L.A: fire lessons - The best piece I have seen so far, here is one bit: Basically, the lessons I take away from the horrific L.A. fires are: The insurance industry as we kno...3 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...7 years ago
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Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com - It's been a long run, but I am leaving Google Blogger for a new home on WordPress. Please bookmark my new site: http://mishtalk.com/ Why Leave? My needs...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...7 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...8 years ago
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Rahasia Menang Bermain Slot Gacor Malam Ini! - Malam ini, kita akan membahas rahasia di balik kesuksesan dalam bermain slot gacor … Read More7 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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Strings 2025 - Enjoying a vacation on a Caribbean porch, and just had a couple hours to kill with good internet access. For some reason I spent part of them listening to ...6 hours 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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cherry picking for fun and profit - by liberal japonicus This Robert D. Kaplan interview by the New Statesman (sorry, it's a youtube, but you can get Kaplan's general gist from this or this) ...1 day 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.2 years ago
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Toward More Direct Signals - As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recentl...4 hours 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...5 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...11 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...8 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...13 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...5 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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The World Cup and Making Soccer Less Boring - It is World Cup time, a good time to reintroduce two posts I did one of the last times we had the World Cup capture the imagination. One of them suggests ...
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How to Fall Out of the Middle Class - These three things often trigger downward mobility.14 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...12 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...10 months ago
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Yitzhak Rabin and the Violent Legacy of Shimon and Levi - My weekly email to Tzedek Chicago members: The centerpiece of this week’s Torah portion, Parshat Vayechi, is Jacob’s final soliloquy to his individual sons...3 hours 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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Whoop! - That is the sound of the gravitational waves hitting the LIGO detector. A chirp. That is also the sound of the celebratory hurrah’s from the gravity commun...8 years ago
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Above my pay grade: Jensen Huang and the quantum computing stock market crash - Apparently Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, opined on an analyst call this week that quantum computing was plausibly still twenty years away from being pra...1 day 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...14 years ago
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Research seminar and ethnography workshop with Gary Alan Fine, FinWork Centre, June 11th - Financial Work Futures Research Centre Seminar & Workshop “Dark Fun: The Cruelties of Hedonic Communities” Professor Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern Universit...5 years ago
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2024 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium - With the start of NYU's fall 2024 semester, I thought I should offer an update here on the public sessions at our 2024 Tax Policy Colloquium. All session...4 months ago
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2024 Confirmed As Hottest Year on Record, Part of Sustained Upward March - Earth's temperature exceeded the previous record set in 2023.1 hour ago
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“The king, sir, is much better!” - Algis Budrys wrote this in 1983: Budrys brings this up in the context of how our reading of a book is affected by whatever reviews and publicity materials ...8 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 ...13 years ago
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Gisellian demurrage currency - Dr. Keen, I am wondering if you have ever seriously considered issuance of Gisellian currency for countries facing unplayable debt (all of them, as far as ...5 years ago
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The Left is On Fire: We Don’t Need No Water, Let the MF Burn - It is remarkable to watch the incineration of the left around the world. From California to Canada to Europe you can hear their shrieks emanating from the ...2 hours 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...1 year 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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Biden-Harris policies and their consequences were no surprise to those paying attention - Milton Friedman used to advise researchers to focus on large policy changes rather than attempting to separate a small change’s signal from the noise. In...2 months 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...14 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...4 years ago
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Issues Associated with the Current Election - Picture Credit: derek visser (modified to exclude extraneous comments) || Trump and Harris are more similar than different. Both favor the rich, they lie, ...2 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...5 years ago
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Welcome to Pricing Hell - The ubiquitous rise of add-on fees and personalized pricing has turned buying stuff into a game you can’t win.8 months 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 ...2 years ago
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Donald Trump Bemoans the Injustice of Facing No Consequences - From the daily newsletter: Trump’s unconditional discharge. Plus: Elon Musk’s terrifying foray into British politics; the war in Ukraine according to Russi...
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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 ...1 year 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 ...13 years ago
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Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner10 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.11 months ago
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MiB: Brian Hurst, ClearAlpha - This week, we speak with Brian Hurst, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of ClearAlpha. Prior to founding ClearAlpha, Brian spent 21 years at A...8 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...13 years ago
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Samsung is offering a $50 credit and up to $1,250 in total savings when you reserve the new Galaxy S25 phones - Samsung is again hosting a reservation offer for its coming Galaxy S phones that guarantees $50 in credit and could save you up to $1,250.1 hour 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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The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...9 years ago
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Hyper inflated arepa index hits an all time high - A good friend just reported back to me that on Jan 27 the price of my usual queso de mano arepa bought at my favorite arepera was 225,000 Bs., up from esse...6 years ago
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Investing at 14 and FI by 20 – Emmanuella’s Inspirational Story [Podcast] - Today’s guest is not yet an adult but aims to reach financial independence by her 20s! She will share her uncommon story, goals, and investment process. ...2 days ago
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Uncle Warren Explains It All to You - [image: Time for Daddy’s little dividend] *“Sure, sure.”* — Sidney J. Mussburger, *The Hudsucker Proxy* Apparently some doddering old fart in Omaha, Nebr...
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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...11 years ago
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New Website - For future updates, please visit my new, redesigned site at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/timduyfedwatch/6 years ago
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Yes, actually, it is - A conspiracy, and even a coup, might be happening, as the FT suggests it is. But what is weird – and new – which makes this politically economically inte...13 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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Establishmentarianism and Conspiracism - Gary Webb’s story can be summed up in three headlines: GARY WEBB: CIA PROTECTING CONTRA DRUG RING WEBB’S CIA-CONTRA DRUG STORY FLAWED SUICIDE OF BLACKBALLE...7 years ago
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Why You Need Online Accounting Homework Help - [image: accounting homework]If you are pursuing an accounting course or if there is an accounting unit, you have to be prepared to deal with some account...4 years 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...7 years ago
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Why are English majors disappearing? - Many universities have witnessed a decline in students pursuing majors in the humanities, including English literature. Why has this happened? This soun...6 months ago
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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 ...7 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...13 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...5 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...7 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...3 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.8 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...12 years ago
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