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• Our Funny Money

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  Atif F. Qureshi“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry FordThe curse of price inflation haunts us. There seems to be no respite for the common man. Everything is ...
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• Microfinance helps or not?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 537
  Well, there has been a lot of debate recently on the issue- whether microfinance helps or not? Two studies, both by Poverty Action Lab researchers have been in heavy controversy since they have been published. First – The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation  by Abhijit Banerjee,  ...
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• An Overview of Unconventional Monetary Policies

  
  Alpha.Sources blog — Authority: 496
  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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• Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery: Ingrid Schaffner, Lisa Jacobs

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Julien Levy (1906-1981) was one of the most influential art dealers of the twentieth century. The Julien Levy Gallery, which opened in New York in 1931 and closed in 1949, played an essential role in the shift of the cultural avant-garde from Paris to New York. It was the first American [...]
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• Spag : An American Business Legend: Elsa B. Tivnan, Catherine Nickerson

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Way before Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target and Sam’s Club, there was Spags, the original discount store and hub-of-the-universe to frugal-minded New England Yankees looking for a bargain. Order Spag : An American Business Legend: Elsa B. Tivnan, Catherine Nickerson form Amazon.
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• The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor: Nelson Lichtenstein

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Onetime Ford Motor die-maker Walter Reuther launched a sit-down strike in 1937 that forced General Motors to bargain with a multiplant union. Another key strike against GM, led by the indefatigable, self-confident United Automobile Workers (UAW) president from Wheeling, ...
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• The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen: Laura Rich

  
  The Ebooks Review — Authority: 129
  Editorial Reviews Everyone knows about Bill Gates, the boy-wonder founder of Microsoft and the planet’s richest citizen. Although less well known, Paul Allen helped make Gates’s good fortunes possible, and he’s certainly worth study for his mistakes just as much as his many successes. Enter former Industry ...
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• More on monetary policy

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 627
  Matt Nolan blogs : Monetary policy at heart isn’t about “unemployment” or “output” or “the exchange rate” (which is a relative price).  Monetary policy is about money, it is about the supply of money, it is about the price level and inflation.  The “interest rate” is merely an instrument ...
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• US Dollar Limbo: How Low Can it Go?

  
  Financial Resource: Beginner Investing to Financial Independence! — Authority: 143
  US Dollar Limbo: How Low Can it Go? As I gear up for the holiday invasion and the ensuing gluttony that’s about to transpire, I can’t help but look forward to my next vacation.  I’m thinking somewhere tropical, perhaps the Caribbean, enjoying drinks with little umbrellas in them.  I lull myself into daydream, ...
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• $1,190 Breached, John McClane Summoned To The Scene

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  At this point there is little sense in putting up any more gold charts. It is pretty clear what is happening: John McClane and Samuel L. Jackson are waiting for the next phone call with detailed instructions from Bernanke on how to short the dollar as the kleptocrats haul the 33 Liberty Street gold stash using garbage ...
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• Support Paul-Grayson AND H.R. 1207

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 583
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Rep. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act is making progress . . . * The House version of the bill (H.R. 1207) has 313 co-sponsors * The Senate  version (H.R. 604) has 30 co-sponsors And last week, Ron Paul along with Rep. Alan Grayson introduced a version of ...
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• What’s all this I hear about Fiscal Restraint?

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 621
  Martin Wolfs History lesson on Federal Debts Deficits never bother Republicans when they are the ones creating them by foolishly ridding themselves of a tax base and building the nation’s stockpile of weapons, war toys, and defense lobbyists. Give us one bad economy where we actually need to put deficit spending ...
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• Seizing the Commanding Heights

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 515
   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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• Federal Housing Subsidies Are Insane

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 746
  A New York Times report on the Federal Housing Administration’s subsidies for higher-priced real estate reveals the insanity of federal housing policies. The 2008 stimulus package signed by President Bush temporarily doubled the maximum loan the FHA insured to $729,750 on single-family homes. Coverage on ...
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• Fed Watch: Ahead of Black Friday

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 689
  Tim Duy says -- correctly -- "that a significant portion of policymakers are simply clueless": Ahead of Black Friday, by Tim Duy : We are embarking once again into that time of the year when reporters around the world become entranced and enthralled with that orgy of consumerism that defines Christmas in America. ...
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• "Interest Rates at Center Stage"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 689
  Like Tim Duy in the post above this one, David Altig is also puzzled by analysts who, to quote from the FOMC minutes highlighted in Tims post, that "banks might seek to reduce appreciably their excess reserves as the economy improves by purchasing securities or by easing credit standards and expanding their lending ...
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  Forex Crunch — Authority: 139
  
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• Rod Oram on ETS and Monetary Policy

  
  The Standard — Authority: 610
  Rod Oram did a business segment on Nine to Noon yesterday. As usual he went quite deep into the issues. A welcome contrast to Colin Espiner and his very limited level of understanding (”they did it too”) on the complete change of direction in the short-sighted changes to the Emissions Trading Act being pushed ...
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• Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes - a world of hurt for working America

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 589
  Ok, we are already way past the Federal Reserves previous predictions of unemployment. Remember that? "Oh, unemployment wont hit 10%" according to Bernanke testimony. The unemployment rate is at 10.2%, U6 is 17.5% and growing. So today we have more forecasts . Q4 2010 - 9.3% to 9.7% Q4 2011 - 8.2% to 8.6% ...
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• A music video primer on the destructive powers of Alan Greenspan

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 686
  Here’s a nice little music video on Alan Greenspan and all that he has wrought. Hat tip Scott. Share and Enjoy: Readers who viewed this page, also viewed: Meredith Whitney: “I haven’t been this bearish in a year” GM’s sale of Saab collapses Is Alan ...
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