Archive for February, 2011

Free Kindle This November

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc – Warren Buffett gives his verdict on the economy and the investment outlook. 27 pages in total; some optimism.“Human potential is far from exhausted” and "now, as in 1776, 1861, 1932 & 1941, America’s best days lie ahead"

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Private Equity-Backed Hospital Chains Look To Expand

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Goldman Sachsonomics — More spending didn’t create jobs, but now we’re told spending cuts will destroy jobs.

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Top 5 Economics Graphs of the Week – 26 Feb 2011

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Oil is headed back to unsustainable price levels

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China’s authoritarian development model appears robust, generating high real growth year after year. But if true economic development is measured by the alternatives open to people, China’s market socialism falls far short of achieving the status of Hong Kong as the world’s freest economy.

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Why New Keynesian macroeconomists are against labour unions

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Can someone help explain why this graph is a straight line? Thanks!

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American supremacy is alive and well

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Buffett on Housing

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Where/how can I look up the value of money from different times/places?

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Say I’m reading a novel in which a Swedish boy finds 100 kroner on the street in 1814, or a baker charges 10 deutschmarks for bread in pre-war Berlin?

How do I find out how much that amount is worth? The average salary in that place/time etc?

Good websites, tomes, search terms?

-thanks from a curious reader.

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Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment

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Sanctions against Libya?

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"A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace … Societies will therefore define gender roles as if women are sellers and men buyers of sex."

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Rising Gold Output Keeps Australia in No. 2 Spot, Surbiton Says

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Gerenciador de referências – Endnote

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Maquiavel e Administração

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Afinal, o que é Paradigma?

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The Liquidation of Society versus the Global Labor Revival – On recent labour protests: "to the extent that global labor arbitrage relies on sweatshops and environmental degradation in poor countries for cheap goods, successful strikes in poor countries undercuts the whole system"

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