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• Harvard hates you (and Coursera isn’t all that fond of you either).

  
  More or Less Bunk — Authority: 577
  Anybody familiar with my fondness for labor history, 19th century American folklore and sarcasm will understand why this is now my favorite tweet ever: The steam powered hammer freed John Henry for other activities.— Sunny Stalter (@slstalter) May 16, 2013 If you don’t know who “John Henry” was, The ...
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• VIDEO: Winning Ticket for Huge Powerball Jackpot Sold in Florida

  
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  Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida. Job market gains could lead Federal Reserve Bank to taper third round of quantitative easing, early. Investigation into Conn. commuter train crash begins Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our videos and articles. ...
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• VIDEO: Winning Ticket for Huge Powerball Jackpot Sold in Florida

  
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  Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida. Job market gains could lead Federal Reserve Bank to taper third round of quantitative easing, early. Investigation into Conn. commuter train crash begins This article, “Winning Ticket for Huge Powerball Jackpot Sold in Florida”, is categorized as ...
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• Cambridge Economics & the Disputation in India’s Economic Policy

  
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  From Facebook 19 May 2013 “Manmohan and Sonia have violated Rajiv Gandhi’s intended reforms; the Communists have been appeased or bought; the BJP is incompetent” is what I said in Sep 2007 in an op-ed in The Statesman . I have to say it again, adding Amartya Sen too for his backing of the so-called ...
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• Keynes in the Spotlight

  
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  | Peter Klein | As the Niall Ferguson kerfuffle begins fading from memory it’s worth revisiting the underlying issue: What kind of person was John Maynard Keynes, and (how) did his social, cultural, moral, and aesthetic views affect his scientific work? Here are a few recommended readings: Ralph Raico, “Was ...
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• VIDEO: Latest Business News

  
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  BOJ chief expects no spike in long-term Japan interest rates G7 to press on with bank reforms, gives Japan free pass ECB’s Draghi says no call for G7 central banks to do more Thanks for checking us out. Please take a look at the rest of our videos and articles. To stay in the loop, bookmark our ...
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• A Belated Reinhart-Rogoff Rundown, Now With More Colbert…

  
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  I’ve been hesitant to write about this, since every time I try I just end up with phrases like “AN EXCEL ERROR ROFL!!!!” on the page, and I don’t feel like that entirely embodies what I would like to convey regarding the Reinhart-Rogoff situation. So I gave it the old college try on About.com instead . Some ...
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• Regions and Cities

  
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  Regional disparities have always been an issue inBritain, going as far back as before World War 2. For instance, before the wareach industry was very much based in one part of the country. Finance was inLondon, textiles in Lancashire/Yorkshire and metalwork in the midlands. Nogovernment really thought in terms of ...
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• Happy Hayek Day: Is it Investment? Is it Consumption?, by Art Carden

  
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  F.A. Hayek would have been 114 years old today. To celebrate, heres a set of videos in which Hayek is interviewed by, among others, Axel Leijonhufvud (!), Armen Alchian (!!), and James Buchanan (!!!). Or, if you prefer the written word, you can download Individualism and Economic Order for the low price of $0 . ...
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• Britain and Europe

  
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  This post will give you a walk through the years of therelationship between Britain and the rest of Europe. We start with the 1800s.In this period, Europe is generally a protectionist place, but Britain iscloser to it economically than any other point since the 1600s. Due to theprotectionism, though, Britain sees most ...
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• 1980s Economic Miracle?

  
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  If you read my previous post, the 1980s look like a roughtime. But, as with most periods - look at them in a different light and thecomplete opposite can be argued. Thatcher had other aims whilst in power:reducing state intervention, allow market forces to do their thing and curbTrade Unions. The year she came to ...
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• The attacks on Keynes and how to be a bad analyst

  
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  Brad Delong, combined with an imbedded quote by Krugman, covers off the bone-headed remarks of Niall Ferguson on Keynes in this post . [ Note :  You might wondering why Im posting when he has apologised - isnt that a bit uncharitable of me.  Well, hes said these things in the past so I believe that some element of ...
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• History

  
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  History was boring only when one had to memorize events and dates to reproduce it during an exam. But later I have always loved looking up history. A few blogs have made it even more pleasurable.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• The Thatcher and Major Years

  
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  In 1979 Margaret Thatcher came to power in Britain - thefirst female Prime Minister. It was seen as a turning point for Britain, notjust for this reason, but because of the effect it could have on economicpolicy. She was a radical woman, and her policies echoed her personality.Brutal. Defeating inflation was the key ...
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• Nationalisation

  
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  A nationalised industry is an industry owned by the statethat produces a marketable, priced output. Over the course of 40 years from the1940s to the 80s there was a lot of action in the field of nationalisation. PostWorld War 2 saw a lot of industries brought under state control: coal, gas,buses and the Bank of ...
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• Free Market Limited Rothschild Reach

  
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  Although many of us think of central banking and use of intricate machinations such as quantitative easing to attempt to direct the global economy as modern phenomena, in fact central banks have a long and colorful pedigree, even within the United States. It should come as no surprise then that the first U.S. central ...
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• May Day, Bourgeois Virtues, and Pictures of the Socialistic Future, by Art Carden

  
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  Today is May Day. Never Forget. Never Again. On Saturday, I spent the day in a seminar room with a group of students from Samford and Birmingham-Southern College (plus Paul Cleveland, an economist from Birmingham-Southern and author of Unmasking the Sacred Lies , of which I bought about twenty copies for members ...
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• Battling Against Inflation, 1970-79

  
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  The 70s were a bad decade for the British economy. Failureis probably the most fitting word for the period. From 1974 to 1979unemployment had crept up to pushing on 5%, growth had fallen to 2% but thereal issue was inflation at 16%. Part of the rise in prices can be attributedto the collapse of the Bretton Woods ...
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• Meanwhile, back at the rice paddy, global warming holds families hostage . . .

  
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  See this United Nations Development Program ten-minute video that, to the wise and concerned, lays out the stakes of delaying action against human-caused climate change. Without enough funding, NGOs work to help farmers getting hammered in the Southern Philippines , and other places. In the Southern ...
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• The Crisis of the Sterling

  
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  In an international sense, the Golden Years werentquite so great. Sterling had major problems. Although as a whole the world isbooming, external problems in the British  economy were starting to show. The fastestarea of trade growth between major economies was in manufactured goods, yetBritains share of manufactured ...
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