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Stiglitz on the Growth in Income Inequality
August 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Corporate Power, Economics, Policy, Politics, Taxes, Taxpayers, Wealth
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A Tale of Two Depressions
June 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Analysis, Bonds, Debt, Economics, Economy, Federal Reserve, Global Economy, Interest rates, Stimulus, Stock Market, Treasury
The “Tale of Two Depressions” updates an earlier column (“up to April 2009) that graphically compared many aspects of global economic buy viagra activity in the Great Depression Tadalis SX and the recent past. The key findings of this comparison are: 1) many aspects of real economic activity are closely following the downward path of [...]
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Robert Shiller Expects Housing Prices to Continue To Fall
June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Economics, Housing
I recently wrote about Robert Shiller’s unusual, for an establishment economist, ability to see the generic lasix forces that influence market prices. Online Avar Ls Cleanser | Antibiotics action cipro 5mg cialis generic pharmaceutical pills amoxicillin amoxil He is also an expert on housing prices, as co-creator of the Case-Shiller index of housing Buy Viagra, [...]
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Efficient Markets versus Irrational Exuberance
June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Economics, Federal Reserve, Housing, Regulation, Stock Market, Wall Street
Today’s Levitra New York Times has an article online pain pills entitled “Poking Holes in a Theory of Markets.” Joe Nocera, the author, interviews Jeremy Grantham and several academic economists. add cialis drug link The article makes what is now an obvious challenge to the theory of “efficient markets,” viagra online price the theory that [...]
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Tax Consumption Instead of Income?
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Debt, Deficit, Economics, Policy, Taxes
I’ve long thought that a tax on consumption rather than income buy doxycycline without prescription seems obviously better. 5mg cialis generic Consumption is income minus savings 1 3 array buy drug market ; thus a tax on consumption would make all savings tax free. amoxil Buy Kamagra online Without Prescription online Because ultimately all investment [...]
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The Focus Is Shifting to the Deficit – Bad News for Bonds and the Market
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Debt, Dollar, Economics, Financial, Global Economy, Policy, Stock Market, Wall Street
I’ve noticed lately many more articles commenting on the projected US deficits (which are enormous). I think that “green shoots” is about played out as a media and market focus. As the focus shifts to the questionable long-term economic prospects of the US and the problems created by the deficits, the mood on Wall Street [...]
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Nate Silver – Too Optimistic about Americans Turning Away from Cars
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Analysis, Economics, Economy, Statistics
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Whose Running the Ship?
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Banks, Corporate Power, Economics, Taxpayers
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More Cold Water on Euphoria from Germany
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Banks, Economics, Financial, Global Economy, Nationalization, Restructuring, Stock Market
Der Spiegel reports that German experts aren’t buying the bank turnaround euphoria. In part this may reflect the sharper contraction expected in Germany this year (GDP down 6%) than in the U.S. It also, though, reflects the view from more impartial observers of the financial scene. NOT Buy Viagra propecia online OUT OF THE WOODS [...]
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Whither Goes the Economy? So Goes the Stock Market
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · deflation, Economics, Global Economy, inflation, Stock Market, Wall Street
The stock market has had major rise in the last six weeks. The beginning of the rise was fueled, as I pointed out at the time, by the Obama Administration’s pledge of a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to ensure that no big banks would go bankrupt. This apparently removed lingering doubts in big investor’s [...]
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