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Archive for April, 2012

A large debt with faster growth is preferable to a smaller debt sitting atop no growth at all. And it’s infinitely better than a smaller debt on top of a contracting economy

Apr 28

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Write-down would ‘put fear of God into banks’

Apr 28

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"Rather than use reserve requirements … the Fed and … regulators have been more inclined to use capital requirements…" A bank’s own stock satisfies their reserve requirements? Am I tripping?

Apr 28

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Ben Bernanke and what the Federal Reserve does next: Lonesome dove

Apr 28

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Remembering Milton Friedman (pdf)

Apr 28

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The New Voodoo Economics – Paul Krugman (x-post from r/SocialDemocracy)

Apr 28

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New Orleans Grew More Unequal After Hurricane Katrina: Report

Apr 28

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The Federal Trade Commission has hired the prosecutor who got Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh the death penalty to lead its investigation into potential anti-trust violations by Google

Apr 28

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The Bernanke Flip-Flop: A Comparison of Japan’s Lost Decade & the U.S. Today

Apr 28

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How To Get A Bigger Keynesian Multiplier (Straussian)

Apr 28

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Felix Salmon Gold Experiment – Business Insider

Apr 28

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Tim Duy’s Fed Watch on Bernanke’s Shift

Apr 28

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Phenomenal Gains in Manufacturing Productivity – Today’s factory workers produce more output in an hour than workers in the 1940s produced in a day

Apr 28

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In 2002, only 30 percent of banks were bound by a reserve balance requirement

Apr 28

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It´s past the time to change the target

Apr 28

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25 Horrible Statistics About The U.S. Economy That Barack Obama Does Not Want You To Know

Apr 28

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Time to Close the Security Theater – Forbes – 6/30/2011 xpost from r/politics, r/travel, r/tsa. From the vault, but relevant again in light of recent TSA controversy.

Apr 27

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REVEALED: The Cost Of Health Insurance Around The World – Business Insider

Apr 27

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Death of the Confidence Fairy. We’re now living in a world of Zombie economic policies.

Apr 27

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Standard & Poor’s has cut Spain’s credit rating and warned of risks to come.

Apr 27

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