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• Quotes For The Week

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 432
  We are in a serious, great recession. -Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and current Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board in the Obama administration ( Spiegel Online (Germany), December 12) Everybody agrees the recession is over. -Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic ...
  3 days ago

• Google Wave - Europe’s Ageing Population

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  According to the Centre for European Reform, “Europe stands on the cusp of a demographic revolution. Europe’s changing demographic profile poses political, economic and social challenges that are as important as climate change, security and globalisation.” Our latest Google wave considered some of these ...
  3 days ago

• Global recovery: Don’t bet on anything being a sure thing at this time short term.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  If the global recovery doesn’t pan out, we will be back to the crash period we had when the financials started collapsing. There would be another leg down globally, only this time, it would be much worse for the developed nations. Don’t bet on anything being a sure thing at this time short term. Most believe the ...
  4 days ago

• Be Happy!: Why This Is the Best Holiday Season Ever.

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  default.jpg">a/default.jpg"> default.jpg">a/default.jpg"> We’re going through some tough economic times right now, but this holiday season, take a moment to appreciate how good we really have it. Need proof? Just think about how much Christmas presents sucked in the 1970s compared to today. Thanks ...
  6 days ago

• Globalization in India

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  My GMU colleague (and Division of Labour ’s) Larry White filmed this two-plus-minute-long video earlier today in Bangalore, India .  (HT Andy Roth)
  6 days ago

• 3 Reasons Why You Need Multiple Streams of Income

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 537
  One of the hottest concepts right now is the premise of creating multiple streams of income. While everyone wouldn’t mind making a little extra cash , there are even more benefits that can be reaped from having more than one source of income. Let’s go over just a few of them. 1. Help save for retirement. The ...
  1 week ago

• Managing Your Bills in Today’s Economy

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 537
  Right now, it has never been more important to manage your bills and get your finances under control . The economy is going through a particularly rough patch, food and gas prices are going up and it can be pretty hard to make your paycheck stretch each month. If youre finding it difficult to keep up, now is the time ...
  1 week ago

• Planning for Your Retirement The Smart Way

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 537
  As millions of aging baby boomers start contemplating how they are going to survive when they’re no longer working, retirement planning has hit an all time high. Whether you’re just starting out in the workforce, or you’re staring 62 in the face and wondering where the money is going to come from, it is never ...
  1 week ago

• Is the American Dream Over?

  
  The Opinionator — Authority: 739
  Or are we just seeing a widening of inequality, not only of income but of skills too?
  2 weeks ago

• A True Liberal

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  Here’s a letter that I sent today to the Wall Street Journal : Andrew Roberts’s review of Robert Sullivan’s biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay splendidly exposes the blinding biases that Sullivan brings to Lord Macaulay and his times (” An Eminent Victorian on Trial ,” Dec. 7).  Persons interested in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Own Online Business

  
  Start Your Own Online Business Presence — Authority: 140
  Online earning can be hard to start.brbrCan you imagine that every single click is likely to bring you its particle of wealth? And you can also press a few buttons and get almost instant results. Irsquo;m just depicting an average scene of making money online. Itrsquo;s one of possible working scenes of this wonderful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Job Online

  
  Your Online Security Authority Blog — Authority: 442
  Online earning can be hard to start. Can you imagine that every single click is likely to bring you its particle of wealth? And you can also press a few buttons and get almost instant results. I’m just depicting an average scene of making money online. It’s one of possible working scenes of this wonderful ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personal Foul

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  On his blog, John Stossel alerted me to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s most recent spasm of stupid protectionist sentiments .  In response to New York’s senior senator, I sent this letter to the New York Daily News : Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) is upset that Adidas will shift its manufacturing of National Basketball ...
  2 weeks ago

• Edmund Phelps on Capitalism

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  Here’s a wonderful essay from a year ago by 2006 Nobel Laureate economist Edmund Phelps .  (HT Michael Strong)  A sampling: The other difficulty with that fashionable hypothesis [that market-generated economic growth is overrated] is that most of the alleged costs are illusory or trumped up. The idea that a ...
  2 weeks ago

• All during the stock rally, we have heard the dollar is set to rally and yet, we get a bump up and then a new low.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Why have the charts, wedge patterns, sentiment, expert analysts been wrong? First, I suppose at some time there will be a rally of significance but, it may not be soon. It could be that those who say the FED is deliberately devaluing the dollar 50% gradually are right. Naturally, the FED can’t say this as it would ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ways To Make Money Online - The Information You Must Know About

  
  Start Your Own Online Business Presence — Authority: 140
  Use your creative potential for online earning.brbrOur modern world is an extremely complicated system. Itrsquo;s full of different interesting features and contrasts. Many things existing in our world can contradict each other. Sometimes it seems to me that itrsquo;s something similar to a real law of the universe. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spend More in Retirement? Or less?

  
  Money & Happiness — Authority: 109
  BusinessWeek recently ran a story called “ Nine Ways Spending Changes in Retirement .” A professor interviewed in the story suggested that retirees “estimate that you will be spending anywhere from 100 to 110 percent of your working budget if you are planning to have an active lifestyle.” That frankly makes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Outrageous….

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  A tragedy of epic proportions. All the while, Goldman Sachs employees are set to earn an average bonus of over $700,000 EACH…..on the backs of the very people who are hurting right now. My fingers are sore from all the emails and letters I have written to Congress to speak out against the criminal activity that is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unemployment, Taxes and You

  
  Reed's Bankruptcy Blog — Authority: 134
  If you’re unemployed during this recession, several factors may greatly impact your tax liability. For unemployed workers who received unemployment insurance benefits, the IRS will tax all benefits after the first $2400.  If taxes were not automatically withdrawn from your unemployment benefits check you could end ...
  3 weeks ago

• Losing overtime to cut capacity

  
  Economics — Authority: 138
  Here is another example of how firms are cutting capacity during the recession without making their staff redundant. The TUC report that, although four million workers do still work extra paid hours, over half a million people have lost the opportunity to work overtime in the last year. The average amount of weekly ...
  3 weeks ago

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