Archive for category Economics

Has there ever existed a 20 year time window over which treasury bills have generated a higher return than the stock market (the Dow, say)?

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Canadian tar sands crude selling at $31/barrel discount to US, due to supply glut & lack of transportation options

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Canada no longer leading the G7 in economic growth.And as unlikely as it seems, it’s the United States — troubled as that country remains — that’s likely to relegate Canada to second place, if not third behind Germany.

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U.S. consumer credit rises $19.3 bln in December – That was the biggest increase since November 2001.

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On John Taylor´s "Reassessing the recovery"

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Can Raising Interest Rates Spark a Robust Recovery?

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‘The Left’ and Public Choice Theory: Marxists aren’t the only ones to study "power relations" in the economy.

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The Zuckerberg Tax

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Many believe that Germany is the big winner of the euro crisis, as investors our billions into in the euro zone’s last safe haven. But the idea is a myth. The crisis could end up costing Berlin dearly.

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Global Financial Crisis: World Debt visualized in $100 bills

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Interesting review of interesting book: Danny Yee comments on Krishna’s 2010 "One Illness Away", an incisive and original treatment of development microeconomics

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Is S&P a WMD?

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Causal Identification and Policy Relevance Go Hand in Hand

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John Taylor: Reassessing the recovery

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Global Manufacturing Steadies as She Goes, or Does She?

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World watches as China economic leaders take stage

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Blogosphere, We Get It.

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Markets in Law

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Capital gains taxes?

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Deadlines have come and gone during the negotiations, but Greece faces one unavoidable deadline on 20 March – a 14.4bn euros debt repayment that it cannot currently afford to pay

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