Archive for December, 2009

A list of ALL the free and open content textbooks available in the Net:

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Small Chinese Company Tells Goldman To Take A Hike, Refuses To Pay $80 Million In Derivative Losses

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Fed floats way to drain money from economy

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Nassim Taleb and the Black Swan. Challenging the academics foundations of economics and finance. Repost from /r/PhilosophyofScience.

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Question for economist Redditors: What exactly are stock price ‘resistance levels’, and is there any hard data that they are predictive?

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A happy trend of 2009: Crime is going down.

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Video Lectures with a clear lay man explanation of the true origins of the recession by a Harvard Business School graduate.

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Obama feigns outrage over bonuses, then approves bigger bailout for bonus-givers Fannie and Freddie

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Peter Schiff: Why would we want to keep terrorists from sending their money to American financial institutions? They would lose it! Wouldn’t it be great of terrorists sent money to Bernie Madoff?

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Sticking to the Official Narrative – William L. Anderson – Mises Institute

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2010 will bring unemployment to another 60 million around the world and throw 200 million more into poverty. So says the Economist, which also suggests there is a ‘high risk’ of social upheaval in China, Mexico and Russia as their societies unravel

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Why this may still be the American Century

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Hippie Capitalists and Other Rare Wonders of the Modern World

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Fannie Mae: Delinquencies Increase Sharply in October. "Includes seriously delinquent conventional single-family loans as a percent of the total number of conventional single-family loans.

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A critique of Ron Paul’s ‘End the Fed’ – Visiting Ron Paul’s Fed-free utopia

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The banana wars are over. But… "Today nobody talks about bananas" which indicates there’s been "a rethinking about trade’s supposed silver bullet role in economic development"

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We believe the proposal of this new tool signals the Federal Reserve is still flailing around trying to look busy so everyone is assured they have a plan. The fact is they have no plan and are still throwing everything on the wall to see what sticks.

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This, by the way, is a federal offense (lying on a mortgage application) yet The FBI and other law enforcement officials were and are under explicit orders NOT to prosecute these crimes.

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Trade, Transportation, and the Chinese Finger Trap

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Did the Housing Crash Leads to a Drop in Divorces?

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