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• Simon Johnson: The words on the Street

  
  Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation — Authority: 430
  The words on the Street : At 6:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, U.S. forces began their assault on Omaha Beach as part of the Normandy landings. Casualties among the first wave were horrendous as infantry struggled out of their landing crafts, known as Higgins boats, under intense fire. Incredible acts of individual heroism ...
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• Ceci Nest Pas Une Blog: Its Christmas Eve and You Know What That Means:

  
  Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation — Authority: 430
  Ceci Nest Pas Une Blog - Its Christmas Eve and You Know What That Means: : Time for my favourite Christmas Eve story. One night, Confucius had a dream about chopsticks. In the dream, he was taken to hell where he saw people sitting around tables piled high with wonderful foods of all kinds. The people were staring ...
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• Punchbowlism: David Cranshaw FTW!!!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 691
  He writes: They didnt look very hard. Took me about half an hour when I was writing an essay on the topic. Last page of this PDF: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/martin/martin55_1019.pdf . Martin, William Jr., Address as Chairman of the Federal Reserve to the New York Investment Bankers Association, ...
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• Copenhagen: Morales and Chavez a `smashing success -- an insiders report from the ALBA delegation

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
  Evo Morales. By Ron Ridenour | Links | December 23, 2009 “Nobel War Prize winner walked in and out of a secret door, and that is the way capitalism and the United States Empire will end up leaving the planet, through a secret back door.” So spoke Venezuela President Hugo Chavez from the plenary podium ...
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• China, the United States, and 20 million zombies (2)

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  We can almost hear you say: Even if we assume that Wall Street was looking for a deep pool of cheap docile labor, China was the last place on the planet that might come to mind. It’s communist, for god’s sake! With a history of internal violence, and conflict with the three major nations on [...]
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• Well, This Is Certainly a Surprise!

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 691
  So on Christmas Day I open a box that I think is some large and unknown present from a relative--and it turns out to be 25 real physical copies of Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong (2010), The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (New York: Basic Books: 0465018769). It is a ...
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• Progressives are nursing their hurt feeling…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  As viewed by Chris Bowers, in an Alternet piece: Marginalized, and impotent, it is slowly beginning to dawn on progressives that they are irrelevant to the Messiah:Overall, this leaves progressives on the short-end of an ideological divide within the American center-left, with relatively little organizational ability ...
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• China, the United States, and 20 million zombies

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 127
  The relationship between these two big guns of global market has been covered by many writers, and, inevitably, their examination boils down to one of two classes of observations:Buyer and Seller: This is a simple, straightforward relation: China sells us 42 inch high definition wide screen plasma televisions; we sell ...
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• Climate Justice Now! statement: Call for `System change not climate change unites global movement

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
  Corrupt Copenhagen "accord" exposes gulf between peoples demands and elite political interests By the Climate Justice Now! coalition | LINKS | 22 Dec 09 December 22, 2009 -- Climate Justice Now! -- The highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) ended with a fraudulent agreement, ...
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• Nathan Newman: Why the Health Care Bill Will Destroy the Conservative Movement

  
  Brad DeLong's Egregious Moderation — Authority: 430
  Why the Health Care Bill Will Destroy the Conservative Movement | TPMCafe : highlight the long-term politics. Which is that it will destroy the conservative movement (a point Bill Kristol made in 1993 when he argued for killing health reform at all costs). Why? Because trying to repeal it will tear the movement apart ...
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• Cutting carbon: What is the solution?

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
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• The realities of carbon trading

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
  The Real News in YouTube Boiling Spot is a news & thoughts aggregator on worlds catastrophes
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• Does carbon trading really work?

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
  The Real News in YouTube Boiling Spot is a news & thoughts aggregator on worlds catastrophes
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• Alex Jones Final Report on Copenhagen

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
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• What Really Happened in Copenhagen?

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 128
  50,000 People Went to Denmark and All They Got was a Lousy 3-Page Political Agreement By BRIAN TOKAR | CounterPunch | December 23, 2009 Detailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climate summit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear, even as countries step up the blame ...
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• A Dedicated User of the Harvard-Goldman Filter, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 686
  The latest edition of What Went Wrong is up. This is a series of video Q&A;s with various experts on the financial crisis. So far, I have been generally disappointed. In the recent episodes, Glenn Hubbard says nothing shocking. Bill George is more interesting, just because he says so many things that go ...
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• Climate action after COP15

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 109
  (A Grist photo) ======= UK Climate Campers have said this on Twitter (in their “bio” statement) - “It’s time to show our ‘leaders’ how we’re going to take action to reduce emissions ourselves. Because it’s business as usual at Copenhagen.” ——- Cascadia Brian (of Rising Tide North America) ...
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• Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go

  
  From Pine View Farm — Authority: 143
  No last minute Christmas shopping for these folks, but the overall total sinking from previous weeks: A . . . report from the Labor Department showed initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 28,000 to 452,000 last week. That was the lowest level since early September 2008. Economists had expected a drop ...
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• Time Consistency, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 686
  Time consistency is one of those terms that economists throw around, and it has come up several times recently on this blog. It might be worth defining/explaining. The situation arises when someone makes a commitment to take an action in the future. If the incentive to keep the commitment is the same as the ...
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• A Reader is Perplexed by Lost Legacy on the Invisible Hand

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 127
  [A Reader, Ian B , comments on yesterdays post and his question deserves a fuller treatment than afforded by space on the comments page. It raises issues which may of wider interest. My reply follows.] Thank you, Ian B , for asking your question and for the polite manner by which you express your perplexity and ...
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