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79Macroeconomic Theory: the Jury Is Out.
In his article “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?” (The N.Y.T. Magazine, Sept 2, 2009) Paul Krugman reflects on the state of macroeconomics in the wake of the deepest recession since the Great...
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65BLUE DOUBLE CROSS--Paul Krugman op-ed NY Times 5-22-09
NY Times op-ed writer, Nobel Prize economist, Paul Krugman points out that even as health industry representatives were meeting with President Obama a week ago in a show of cooperation with his health care...
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79Income Disparity Grows
Elizabeth Warren: America Without a Middle Class Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you can, would it still be America as we know it?Top 200 CEO Pay Richest Americans Lose $300...
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78Subprime Home Mortgage Crisis
"We forgot there was a lot more risk in the strategy," said one State Street executive." The State Street Corporation which manages $2 trillion for pension funds and insurance companies fired a senior...
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59John 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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57A Breakfast Shake for a Shaking Citizenry
Good morning breakfastpoppers. Today is Wednesday, August 12, 2009. I've decided to prepare a "Drink Till You Drop Breakfast Shake" this morning. It's really quite user friendly, so if you care to follow...
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66Milton 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,...
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73The Best Financial Blogs
Lot's of excellent financial bloggers now give solid, informed commentary about markets and the economy. Some are academic economists of great renown, while others are just interested amateurs. The great...
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55Straws in the Wind 10-29-07
"Earlier this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the White House agreed to allow the executive branch to conduct dragnet interceptions of the electronic communications of people in the United States....
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55CROOK ALERT! Corporate Leeches Contribute to High Health Care Costs
Will Ferell Stands Up for the Real Health Care Victims Editorial Insurance Company Schemes Published: June 28, 2009 Congressional committees heard a lot this month about the...
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