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• Hurray! Another little pet theory borne out in practice.

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 442
  As I have been saying for a while, e.g. here : ... what [quantitative easing] boils down to is commercial banks and government departments shuffling numbers on bits of paper (or on computer screens) around between themselves with little or no impact on the wider economy. From todays FT* : Key measures of ...
  2 hours ago

• Japans Hirano: expects PM, BOJ gov to discuss QE(lost decades enter its third)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Japans Hirano: expects PM, BOJ gov to discuss QE By: AFX | 29 Nov 2009 | 09:47 PM ET Text Size TOKYO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Japans top government spokesman said on Monday that he expects Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa to discuss whether the central bank is considering ...
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• Fridays Breadth Was SO Negative...It Could Be Positive

  
  Quantifiable Edges — Authority: 518
  Friday’s selloff was marked by extremely negative breadth. Around 97% of the volume was to the downside on the NYSE. In the past, days that have been SO negative have often led to bounces over the short-term. This can be seen in the study below. The “% Profitable” is positive but not overwhelming. ...
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• Qualitative easing

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 124
  While quantitative easing has received much press, qualitative easing has been neglected. Qualitative easing consists of policies that deteriorate the average quality of the assets that a central bank holds. This can occur both with and without quantitative easing.   By selling high quality assets (i.e., ...
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• UK money printing not working

  
  Capitalists@Work — Authority: 131
  This is the latest analysis from the Bank of England, the money supply M4 measure fell 0.7% in October, month on month. This means that there is less money in the economy than before. As such it does not bode very well for future growth, whatever the politicians may be saying. Also it shows that either ...
  7 hours ago

• EMISSION REDUCTIONS AIMED AT IMPROVING AIR QUALITY: UNINTENDED C...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  This work will provide improved understanding of the role of climate change, both in the recent past and future, on the success of pollutant control strategies, allowing for better planning and accountability of emission reductions. This work will also provide a quantitative assessment of the role U.S. emissions of ...
  11 hours ago

• Japan Preparing To Launch Quantitative Easing; What Are Three Lost Decades Among Hyperdeflationary Friends

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  As if the newsflow from the last few days could get any more surreal, Dow Jones concludes the ticker with this stunner: Japan Hirano: Expect BOJ Gov, PM To Discuss Quantitative Easing TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japans top government spokesman said he expects Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Bank of Japan Gov. ...
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• EEF manufacturers group see credit crunch easing

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Firms reporting that borrowing has become more expensive has fallen to the lowest level since the beginning of the credit crunch The end of the credit crunch is in sight, according to the EEF manufacturers organisation, which also urged the government not to choke off the recovery by ending its economic stimulus ...
  17 hours ago

• Banking on a green industrial revolution

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains ground George Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating businesses. Vince Cable wants a national investment bank for infrastructure, financed with a ...
  18 hours ago

• Book Review: Market Indicators

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 607
  Every one one us has limited bandwidth for analysis of data.  We pick and choose a few ideas that seem to work for us, and then stick with them.  That is often best, because good investors settle into investment methods that are consistent with their character.  But every now and then it is good to open things up ...
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• Biogas. Coulombic efficiency. “… anode-respiring bacteria oxidizing H2 and producing current which recycled H2 between the cathode and the anodes, increasing CE to over 100% …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  “… designed an upflow single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) by placing the cathode on the top of the MEC and carried out a program to track the fate of H2 and electron equivalents in batch experiments.” 1Researchers from the Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State ...
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• First-ever blueprint of minimal cell is more complex than expe...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism functions as a system? Researchers are providing the first comprehensive picture of a minimal cell, based on ...
  3 days ago

• Could Dubai be the trigger?

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 128
  Warren Pollock points out that the real danger lies, not in Dubai possibly deciding to default on its sovereign debt, but in the credit default swaps surrounding the debt, which may magnify the problem by 10 - 100+ times. If some of these huge side bets are wild ones not adequately backed by the gamesters capital, off ...
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• An Overview of Unconventional Monetary Policies

  
  Alpha.Sources blog — Authority: 512
  The excellent research edifice at the Bank of International Settlements have conjured up one of those papers which needed to be written (by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat) on the back of the myriad of different monetary policy responses we have observed in the contex of the economic crisis. The abstract and ...
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• Seizing the Commanding Heights

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 567
   by Jerry O’Driscoll  On the Opinion page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal , George Melloan spells out how government stimulus is stifling lending, crowding out private investment and impeding economic recovery.  He writes that “the credit market has been tilted to favor a single borrower with a huge ...
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• UK GDP since 1948

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gross Domestic Product is the output of Britain. And these figures show its going down - fast • Get the data Britains economy remained stuck in recession in the third quarter of this year, official figures confirm today, with GDP contracting at a rate of 0.3% between July and September, more slowly than the ...
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• TIME FOR BILLIONS OF QUID PRO QUO’S FROM THE BANKS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 122
  The Bank of England, under the control of its Governor Mervyn King (pictured above) secretly loaned £61.6 billion to 2 banks at the height of the UK financial meltdown last year. Reportedly a “dire financial emergency” meant covert crisis loans were extended to the banks then in difficulty, the Royal Bank of ...
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• Credit Risk Contractors

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 158
    Credit Risk Contractors · Leading International Bank · Multiple Opportunities · Up to €500 per day This is a challenging position for experienced strong Quantitative Credit Risk Contractors. The contract will last from 6 - 18 months and will use your exposure to Basel and Scorecard ...
  6 days ago

• Credit Risk Contractors

  
  Jobs in Finance — Authority: 152
    Credit Risk Contractors · Leading International Bank · Multiple Opportunities · Up to €500 per day This is a challenging position for experienced strong Quantitative Credit Risk Contractors. The contract will last from 6 - 18 months and will use your exposure to Basel and Scorecard ...
  6 days ago

• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
  6 days ago

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