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Archive for December, 2010

US Changes How It Measures Long-Term Unemployment

Dec 30

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I am watching Enron: The smartest guys in the room, and I learned about mark to Market accounting… WHY IS THIS EVEN LEGAL ?!?!

Dec 30

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Housing prices double dip

Dec 30

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Retirement account fantasy and middle class erosion – 1 out of 3 Americans has zero dollars in a retirement account. From 1950 to 1989 top 1 percent earned roughly 7 to 8 percent of nationwide income. Today it is inching closer to 20 percent resembling pre-Great Depression levels.

Dec 30

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Gerald Celente – Trends Research Institute: Top Trends Of 2011

Dec 30

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Happy 100th Birthday to Ronald Coase

Dec 30

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Official /r/economics Book List

Dec 30

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If you have a book about economics add it to the list. If you have time please include an amazon link and/or a general description of the book(s).

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Japan and the Limits of Keynesianism

Dec 30

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The demand for economic demand: Companies are not stockpiling cash for an uncertain future. Businesses are eager to invest and grow. Just not in markets where demand is flat or falling.

Dec 30

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CA woman arrested for insider trading. Made $200,000 for passing technology related information to hedge funds.

Dec 30

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The 2010 labor market in one graph – "Note that the big drag on the labor market’s recovery has been cuts in public-sector jobs."

Dec 30

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In 1995, a new measure of poverty in the US was proposed. It would based on the level of disposable income, which includes things of non-cash value (like food stamps) and excludes cash that can’t go to basic needs (like income tax and child support). Why aren’t we using this?

Dec 30

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Obama likely to pursue "corporate-tax cut" by eliminating deductions, credits and loopholes.

Dec 30

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US unemployment remains high even though companies are performing well — US businesses are hiring but these jobs are mostly overseas

Dec 30

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Should The Government Be In The Mortgage Business?

Dec 30

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Nationalist accounting tricks: Immigration reduces inequality

Dec 30

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The code everybody is running makes sure nobody else is cheating – nobody else is creating more bitcoins than are allowed, nobody is trying to spend their bitcoins more than once, and that bitcoins are only being spent by their rightful owners.

Dec 30

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The Case of the Missing U.S. Jobs

Dec 30

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Despite the voluminous and often fervent literature on ‘income distribution,’ the cold fact is that most income is not distributed; It is earned.

Dec 30

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2011- What’s coming? Prognostications of the next year by Bruce Krasting. (see comments for what he got right about 2010)

Dec 30

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