Archive for May, 2011

Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out — What makes early-stage Internet start-ups successful? Max Marmer, teenager and Stanford dropout, has mapped the "Silicon Valley innovation genome," which aims to tell us. Summary with a link to the full paper

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Yuan at record high versus dollar

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India’s stingy definition of poverty irks critics News

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Belarus Central Bank Lifts Interest Rate 200bps to 16.00%

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Usually more growth begets more inflation. But ironically, fiscal austerity and higher taxes are boosting inflation in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.

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Shelling Out – The Origins of Money

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"If your objective is to leave in place these exceptionally low tax rates for the most fortunate Americans, then you are going to have to dismantle the basic commitments to our seniors, to the poor and to the elderly." Tim Geithner.

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Soft options in Greece are over as debt crisis escalates to existential level

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Home ownership expected to drop below 1998 levels and continue a downward spiral

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China’s Economy Slows, but Inflation Still Looms

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Economic Calendar: Here comes June and the PMIs

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My friend thinks John Mauldin is great – can I help him somehow?

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A friend of mine keeps forwarding me the weekly John Mauldin email as he thinks the guy is really sharp. Any ideas on what I can say to my friend to wake him up? Anybody know what his major was at Rice (a BA)? Is there a better subreddit for these questions?

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What’s it worth to you? Part 2

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Forget speculators, index funds could be real culprit behind the commodity price surge

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Why India is less vulnerable to the risks of malinvestment and on sounder footing for a long boom

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Central Bank of Russia Raises Overnight Deposit Rate 25bps to 3.50%

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OECD Better Life Index, How the countries match up against a variety of categories

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Your Commute Is Killing You — People with long journey times suffer disproportionate pain, stress, obesity, dissatisfaction. So why do we do it? Often it’s to get a bigger home for our money. But we fail to take the cost of our time spent commuting into account

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Utah’s Gold & Legal Tender Laws

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Driverless Cars & Over-Regulation

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