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Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Monday, July 06, 2015

Quotation Of The Day: The Global Economy

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Comment by Bocopro, who typed in the following to this post at Western Hero and particularly appropriate now that Greece has defaulted o...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

The Failed Trade Deal?

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Who here at IBA can explain to me what the free-trade initiative entailed? I keep hearing the phrase "displaced workers." To wh...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Fifty States?

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The United States still consists of fifty states, but they no longer have fiscal independence ( hat tip to Asylum Watch ): Percent of b...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Who Will Do The Driving?

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For decades, as both children and adults, the Baby Boomers drove our economy: Almost exactly nine months after World War II ended, “the c...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Warning To U.S. Banks

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An exclusive from Reuters , dated August 10, 2012: U.S. regulators directed five of the country's biggest banks, including Bank of Am...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Great Depression And Today's Ailing Economy

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In the January 2012 edition of Vanity Fair , Joseph E. Stiglitz writes the following: ...For the past several years, Bruce Greenwald and I...
Monday, December 05, 2011

Euro-Bomb!

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The financial kind of bomb. Click directly on the image to enlarge it: From Doug Ross @ Journal (citing this source , which is worth your ...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Worst Wall Street Thanksgiving Week Since The Great Depression

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With a hat tip to Randy's Roundtable : Yep, the worst Thanksgiving week since the Great Depression. This debacle is not all Obama'...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Continuing Down The Road To Serfdom

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Today from CNBC : No Rise in Home Prices Until 2020: Bankers Home prices are unlikely to recover before 2020 and mortgage defaults will per...
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Sunday, August 07, 2011

The Great Contraction

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So says Ezra Klein. Some of what he writes does make sense: ...Recessions...imply a very particular economic phenomena: a business-cycle r...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

What If The United States Defaulted On National Debt?

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From AOL News : The government now borrows about 42 cents of every dollar it spends. Imagine that one day soon, the borrowing slams up aga...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Deficit, Debt, and Debt Interest

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If the video below is accurate, how long before total economic collapse? Thanks to Z for emailing me the link to the above video.
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

The China Bubble

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Ghost towns in China? Apparently so. Note this photo of Zhengzhou New District. The photo shows huge and numerous public buildings that h...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

For Discussion: Deficit Reduction

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HERE in the Washington Post you can read the highlights of the deficit-reduction proposals. The include the following: -Overhaul individu...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Obama Sees Advantages In The Decline Of America As An Economic Power

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From the Times of India : ...The fact of the matter is that for most of my lifetime and I'll turn 50 next year - the US was such an eno...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

The We're-Not-Europe Party

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From this op-ed at WSJ ( hat tip to Hard Astarboard : One of the constant criticisms of Barack Obama's first year is that he's ma...