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77Income Disparity Grows
The Wall Street Journal surveyed CEO pay a the 456 biggest U.S. companies during the past fiscal year. Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, was number two with a $68.6 million paycheck, and Occidental Petroleum’s Ray Irani was number three. Overall, CEO pay has risen 3 percent during the past fiscal year.
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78Subprime Home Mortgage Crisis
NY Times ace financial guru, Floyd Norris, in his column today, Oct 19, 2007, explains Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's latest invention to ward off disaster for the big banks and the country's financial system, the "Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit," which will rival the Los Angeles aqueduct.
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69Milton Friedman on the Central Federal Reserve Bank
“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933.” -- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist, January...
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83Krugman on Friedman - A Critique
With the passing of the late John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006) the job of popularizer of the economics of government economic control of the economy has been taken up by Paul Krugman. Like Galbraith, before...
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689-19-08 Crisis End Game--Paul Krugman NY Times
Op-Ed Columnist Crisis Endgame By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 18, 2008 On Sunday, Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, tried to draw a line in the sand against further bailouts of failing financial...
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62John Kenneth Galbraith on the Central Federal Reserve Bank
-- John Kenneth Galbraith From his last book The Economics of Innocent Fraud : The Fed, for all its power and prestige, effectively does nothing, says Galbraith. In his view, America's Federal...
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59Lesson from Europe for a Better Future Reform
The Real Lesson from Europe’ unveils those aspects regarding which we never thought before. For a better growth and social order it is essential to think about them.
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58Black Velvet and the PIP-POP Awards
Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is PIP-POP Tuesday, February 8, 2011. It is time for the 21st weekly presentation of the coveted PIP-POP Awards. I think we are in for an interesting show, so without further adieu let's prepare our customary...
42 comments60Singapore Sling and the PIP-POP Awards
Join me for a liquid breakfast and the weekly presentation of the PIP-POP Awards. This morning we will be mixing up a Singapore Sling!!
46 comments60A Paloma and the PIP-POP Awards
Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is PIP-POP Tuesday, January 11, 2011. The awards ceremony is scheduled to begin in a few minutes, so let's prepare our customary liquid breakfast and head for the theater....
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