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• Balancing Multilingualism in Europe

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  I had written  about the importance of understanding legal aspects of central banking (apart from economics). BoJ chief also gave a very interesting speech on importance of law in central banking.  ECB has a legal working paper series and I am trying to catch up with a few papers here. Very interesting and ...
  5 hours ago

• An account of Fed mistakes

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  Binyamin Appelbaum and David Cho have a nice write-up on where Fed went wrong  in this crisis. This one takes the cake: In January 2005, National City’s chief economist had delivered a prescient warning to the Fed’s board of governors: An increasingly overvalued housing market posed a threat to the broader ...
  7 hours ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  11 hours ago

• Christmas in the Senate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  In passing the health care legislation tomorrow, the Senate is calling for a significant redistribution of purchasing power in health care toward lower-income Americans, an economist writes.
  15 hours ago

• Christmas in the Senate

  
  Economix — Authority: 729
  In passing the health care legislation tomorrow, the Senate is calling for a significant redistribution of purchasing power in health care toward lower-income Americans, an economist writes.
  21 hours ago

• Full Housing Crisis Effect Yet To Be Felt: Economist

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The full effect of the housing crisis has not yet been felt because foreclosures are not happening fast enough, John Geanakoplos, a partner at Ellington Capital Management, told CNBC Wednesday. One of the remedies for the crisis would have been to write down the principal on troubled mortgages, as many houses get ...
  21 hours ago

• Crisis quote of the day…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 125
  Occasionally, an economist will say something that makes it all clear. This one was just a link on Angry Bear to an article on still another blog:“All of our current models prefer people to starve and die.”A link on the second blog will take you to this article in the Harvard Gazette about a young [...]
  23 hours ago

• Another Look at Hiring and Layoffs

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Job hires have been low in recent months, but that does not necessarily mean that spurring hiring at small businesses is the way out of this recession, an economist writes.
  1 day ago

• Another Look at Hiring and Layoffs

  
  Economix — Authority: 729
  Job hires have been low in recent months, but that does not necessarily mean that spurring hiring at small businesses is the way out of this recession, an economist writes.
  1 day ago

• Chile the next developed economy..??

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  Juan Forero of Washington Post has a write-up on Chile economy  (HT: Marginal Revolution ).  He says: This week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club of rich nations that includes the United States, Japan and several European countries, formally invited Chile to join. Becoming the ...
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• Two e-books on financial reform and trade in this crisis

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  NYU Stern econs have prepared a e-book on financial reform . The chapter summaries are here . November 2008 saw the global financial system on the brink of collapse; the crisis – which began in 2007 – had entered a new and dangerous phase. That time we responded by gathering a group of world-renown financial ...
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• World Bank’s Knowledge in Development Notes

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  I came across this very valuable short research notes section on World Bank website – Knowledge in Development Notes These notes, prepared in 2009, provide background on current development issues based on research from inside and outside the World Bank. They ask What works? What doesn’t? Why? and What’s ...
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• Rethinking Detroit’s abandoned places

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 620
  The current issue of the Economist Magazine has one of the best articles on Detroit I’ve seen in some time from an outsider’s perspective. And it’s even uplifting. Entitled “ The Art of Abandonment ,” the unsigned piece includes the (by now) obligatory vivid descriptions of a shrinking city, its hard ...
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• Here is my newly UPDATED “Great NAR Quotes” list. ENJOY!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 544
  Great NAR Quotes (in chronological order): 08/2005: “All of the doom and gloom forecasts of a housing debacle are not only irresponsible, but also downright wrong.” David Lereah, National Association of Realtors 08/2005: “If you paid your mortgage off, it means you probably did not manage your funds ...
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• US economy up 2.2 percent in third quarter

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Washington, Dec 22 (DPA) The US economy grew slower than expected 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2009, revised government figures showed Tuesday.The rise in gross domestic product (GDP) was weaker than earlier estimates had shown, but was still the first positive growth period after the year-long recession that ...
  2 days ago

• What Would a Space Invader Think?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  If a space invader believed what Americans say about education, he/she/it would conclude that we value it highly. If this same creature were to sit in on any of a zillion business meetings, he/she/it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Jobless Middle-Class New Yorkers Struggle to Get By

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  High unemployment is spreading in New York City beyond the poorest neighborhoods to once-secure middle-class enclaves, where some residents are falling behind on rent and mortgage payments. Among the hardest-hit spots are the northern Bronx and southeastern Queens. Both areas have seen unemployment double since the ...
  2 days ago

• Politics in economics departments

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  I wrote a blogpost  a while ago covering Montek Ahluwalia’s speech. He pointed to the role Amartya Sen played in forming Planning Commission. Just reproducing them: Amartya Sen’s article, which is reprinted in this volume but which first appeared in the Seminar issue on Freedom and Planning almost fifty ...
  2 days ago

• Political Influence of Financial Industry

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  IMF Research Bulletin for Dec 2009 has very interesting stuff. Discussion by Prakash Kannan on Financial crisis and recovery. Inflation targeting in emerging economies by Turgut Kisinbay Seven questions on political influence of financial industry The first two are excellent discussions and a must read. Very ...
  2 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 days ago

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