Archive for July, 2011

“… if somebody else invites you [to go bar hopping], you know how they think about you.”

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Planet Money lays it out, how to fix our country and our economy

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Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP in the developed world [pic]

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There never was a surplus – U.S. National Debt | The Economist

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America’s recession was deeper than believed, and its recovery is faltering

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Alan Blinder on the macroeconomic situation: We do not have a deficit emergency, we have a jobs emergency

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Moody’s expects to affirm U.S. rating (top-notch rating for now, despite the "limited magnitude"… but will likely come with a negative outlook)

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Asia’s BRICs Hit The Wall — Interesting piece from India’s former finance minister. "India and China both need a renewed commitment to structural reform to sustain their economic growth. Cheap labor and monetary management will not do the trick on their own"

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Lessons From Those Losing Triple-A Rating: Bad but not Catastrophic

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Moody’s: Neither debt plan protects the nation’s AAA rating

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Citigroup’s Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari "suggest the debt ceiling impasse is a vaudeville compared to the tragedy that could await. The US faces five scenarios and a downgrade is all but guaranteed"

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Downsized pharma jobs not coming back?

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Robert Greenstein, CBPP President warns that Boehner’s new budget proposal, "if enacted, could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history."

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What Should the Fed Target?

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Project management as a bridge between roles in science and business

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The Rapture Profiteers Is the debt ceiling crisis resurrecting the apocalypse industry?

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German finance minister: Greek deal no transfer union

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Can a giant platinum coin save our credit?

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"Economic Armageddon": Washington’s Response to a Failed Ecomomy: More War by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

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does anyone have a link to that graph of total worldwide AAA equity growth?

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a while ago, someone posted a link to what i seem to think was a zerohedge article about the explosive growth of AAA equity, but i can’t seem to track it down.

help a brother out?

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