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05/19/13 - Doug Casey on Conspiracies, Gold and the Continuing 'Greater Depression' of the World's Economies
The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Doug Casey. Introduction: Doug Casey has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows and has been the subject ... |
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05/18/13 - Luxury Living: Wiesmann Cars Have It All
Introducing The Daily Bell's weekly Luxury Living segment... because Memento Mori is a way of life. This week ... Wiesmann ... " They stick to the road like geckos stick ... |
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05/17/13 - The Failure of Retirement
Gen X Has New Reason to Resent Boomers as Retirement Looks Bleak ... Generation X, the unlucky cohort of Americans who became young adults during the boom years of the 1990s ... |
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05/17/13 - Immigration: Apparent Effort to Fashion North American Union Continues
House lawmakers reach tentative deal to revamp immigration ... Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in ... |
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05/17/13 - The Gold Trend Remains Down
Credit Suisse: 'Gold Is Going To Get Crushed' ... Bearish sentiment toward gold has prices for the yellow metal tumbling again. On Wednesday, George Soros revealed through a ... |
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05/17/13 - Africa, the Next China?
LONG before Baobab became a lowly journalist he scraped a living as a lowly academic. "If you're so clever why aren't you rich?" was a favourite tease of his less bookish but ... |
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05/16/13 - Shock: CFR Floats Neo-Bretton Woods to Create a New Monetary System
According to the economic history books, the one great conference that resolved [global economic] tension – for a quarter century – was "Bretton Woods," a ... |
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05/16/13 - Sure We'll Unwind, Don't Worry ...
'Dreaded' Unwinding Easier Said Than Done ... It ought to be the clearest sign yet that the crisis is over. The Wall Street Journal's Fed-Watcher-In-Chief Jon Hilsenrath has ... |
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05/16/13 - Don't Dial Back; Print Harder
If The Economy Will Collapse When The Fed Stops Printing Money Then Lets Keep Printing ... Gawker's Hamilton Nolan concludes a discussion of the European Depression with his ... |
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05/16/13 - Al Franken Wants Credit-Rating Reform ... Why?
Franken aims at reform of credit-rating system ... What is Democratic Sen. Al Franken's big idea to clean up the credit rating system? Transparency. Franken, a junior senator ... |
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05/16/13 - Huffington Post: The IRS Was Right
The IRS Was Dead Right To Scrutinize Tea Party ... Lost in the latest political scandal is a simple fact: The Internal Revenue Service was acting in the public interest when it ... |
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05/16/13 - Lawrence O'Donnell: The IRS Was Just Doing Its Job
Lawrence O'Donnell – IRS Agents Were 'Doing Their Jobs - YouTube Dominant Social Theme: The IRS is not at fault and its agents do their best to conform to the law. ... |
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05/15/13 - Dr. Gary North: Why the Internet Reformation Must Win
Mises' Answer to Would-Be Conspirators: You Will Lose ... Over half a century ago, Ludwig von Mises made a crucial observation. The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an ... |
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05/15/13 - Reuters Confusion Between Mises and Hayek: A Flawed Analysis
Hayek has become the patron saint of conservative intellectuals – and with good reason. He went head to head with John Maynard Keynes in 1931 in an effort to stop ... |
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05/15/13 - Serious UK Difficulties Ahead as Cameron Struggles with EU Withdrawal
Cameron and his party conspire to create a European shambles ... The Prime Minister's concessions over the EU referendum have eroded his authority ... The tragedy for David ... |
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05/15/13 - US One Billion in Gold Has Just Been Shipped to South Africa
Why Has $1 Billion in Gold been Shipped from New York to South Africa? ... In what may be the strangest story I have seen in a while related to the gold market, it appears $982 ... |
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05/15/13 - BoE's King Leaving, Upgrades Britain's Outlook
The BoE has upgraded its outlook for growth and expects a faster fall in inflation, Sir Mervyn King said, offering a pleasant "parting gift" in his final inflation report as ... |
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05/15/13 - Jon Stewart Understands Just How Destructive IRS Scandal Really Is
Jon Stewart Totally DESTROYS Obama Administration Over IRS Scandal − YouTube Dominant Social Theme: The US government is pretty benevolent and mostly gets it right. ... |
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05/14/13 - Will Fracking Sink the Dollar and Bring on Global Currency?
US shale energy creates global oil 'supply shock' ... Booming oil production in North America brought on by the shale energy revolution has created a global "supply shock" that ... |
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05/14/13 - Fracking, Just in Time to Help the US Economy?
Import prices fell in April due to a drop in oil costs, a positive sign for household finances that also pointed to benign inflation pressures ... The tame inflation ... |
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05/14/13 - G7 Sets Policy for Global Tax Regime
Osborne: G7 agree to target tax evasion and avoidance ... George Osborne co-chaired the two-day meeting in ... The G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed that there ... |
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05/14/13 - Correct, Mayor Johnson, the Real Problem is Not the EU
Quitting the EU won't solve our problems, says Boris Johnson ... Britain's economic problems would not be solved by simply leaving the European Union, Boris Johnson warns. This ... |
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05/14/13 - Litigation: The Alternative to the Mainstream Media That Must Be Considered
U.S. broadcast TV ratings slide pressures ad rates at 'upfronts' ... The increased competition will force ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC to settle for their lowest average rate hikes in ... |
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05/14/13 - UN to World: Eat Bugs
UN says: why not eat more insects? ... The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: ... |
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05/13/13 - Gold US$1,100?
Gold Gets Gutted: Here's Why ... Gold's been stuck in a pretty tight range, and it's losing ground ... Gold dropped three percent Friday, suffering the worst decline of any ... |
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05/13/13 - Universal Basic Income Promotion Hits the Washington Post
Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income? ... In light of the recent Oregon Medicaid study, several people have discussed the idea of taking parts of the social ... |
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05/13/13 - Spain's Problem is Europe's, Too
Spain is officially insolvent: get your money out while you still can ... I'd not noticed this until someone drew my attention to it, but the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor, ... |
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05/10/13 - The Problem of Gold
Gold: 3 Essential Facts For Your Future ...When any market crashes, it's a shock. For a real nose dive it normally takes something unexpected and dramatic to kick it off. If ... |
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05/10/13 - US Warns Japan About Currency Debasement
The United States warned Japan on Friday to stick to the rules when it came to the value 6:07am EDT of its currency, setting the stage for a potentially uncomfortable meeting ... |
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05/10/13 - How High is High?
Stock Markets Rise, but Half of Americans Don't Benefit ... Dollars to doughnuts. The stock market has been doing well, reaching new nominal highs in recent weeks. Economists ... |
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05/09/13 - Shock: Economist Mag Predicts North American Common Market?
In Mexico, if you read between the lines, there is something ... that gets little mention ... Héctor Aguilar Camín, an expert on the bilateral relationship, says ... |
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05/09/13 - How the Drug Trade Becomes Legalized ... Quietly
Welcome to the contradictory-seeming economics of the nation's fast-changing marijuana laws. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have now rebelled against the federal ... |
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05/09/13 - Future of Digital Rights
Kim Dotcom and two lawyers, Robert Amsterdam and Ira P. Rothken, have published a white paper defending the Internet entrepreneur against a criminal prosecution issued by the ... |
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05/09/13 - Implosion: Patent Law Remains Troubled in the US
Headlines have been trumpeting the Indian Supreme Court's decision to deny a new patent for the cancer drug Gleevec as an attack on intellectual property rights and a win for ... |
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05/08/13 - Salvage Europe With Visionary Leadership?
Is Europe losing faith in the EU? Happy Europe Day! ... If you don't know May 9 is Europe Day, then you find yourself in good company with a majority of Europeans. Even in the ... |
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05/08/13 - Barroso Blabs Back
Federal Europe will be 'a reality in a few years', says Jose Manuel Barroso ... A fully fledged federal Europe may seem like "political science fiction" today but will soon ... |
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05/08/13 - What Buffett Has Forgotten, But We Should Remember
Buffett says economy on mend, bonds 'terrible' investment ... Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is gradually improving, but low interest rates have made bonds "terrible ... |
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05/08/13 - A Flawed Message
Join the debate on Europe – YouTube ... The European Union – would your life be any different if it didn't exist? Watch this video and join the debate ... |
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05/07/13 - Has Rome Saved Italy?
Italy came to brink before being saved by "King George" ... Since an election in February that left no group with enough support to govern alone, one political disaster had ... |
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05/07/13 - Misleading Headline of Predictable Stock Market Meme
Global shares near 5-year high as central bank rally rolls ... World shares hit their strongest in almost five years and Germany's Dax reached an all-time high on Tuesday ... |
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05/07/13 - Wall Street Guru Comes Out in Favor of Public Central Banks?
Foul Weather Friends ... The financial repression thesis (FRT) imagines a state of nature in which the market exists, but the state does not. This view implies that the market ... |
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05/07/13 - Eurocrats Contemplate Social Credit as Meme Expands
Following Europe's lead on the basic income for all ... Folks in Europe are currently campaigning for a basic income, which would provide a livable income directly to everyone ... |
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05/06/13 - Member Zone Benefit: 'High Alert' Now Available for eReaders, Download
The Daily Bell is pleased to offer another valuable FREE benefit to our Members. Anthony Wile's fourth edition of High Alert: How the Internet Reformation is causing a ... |
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05/06/13 - Morgan Stanley Commentators: Please Reveal Your Conflicts of Interests
The Oil and Gold Booms Are Over ...The wreckage caused by China's great, juddering slowdown continues to spread far beyond the country's shores. Although most commodities ... |
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05/06/13 - Globalist Euro Disaster: Euro Founder Endorses Bust-Up
German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up ... Oskar Lafontaine, the German finance minister who launched the euro, has called for a break-up of the ... |
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05/06/13 - The Long, Slow Slide Toward Prosperity
Long-term unemployment is one of the most vexing problems the U.S. faces, and today's jobs report shows all-too-meager progress in fixing it. The U.S. created 165,000 new jobs ... |
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05/06/13 - President Obama: Reject Warnings of Tyranny
In a speech to college graduates at Ohio State, President Obama spent a few minutes talking about people who warn of government tyranny. He told the graduates to "reject these ... |
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05/03/13 - Fed Is Tightening. No, It's Loosening. No, It's ...
Fed Open to Expanding QE as It Counters Talk of Tapering ... Facing the risk of a fourth straight summertime slowdown, Federal Reserve officials raised the prospect of ... |
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05/03/13 - The New Meme of Open Borders
If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated? ... What if there was a program that would cost nothing, improve the lives of millions of people from poorer ... |
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05/03/13 - The Bounty of Fracking
The U.S. Has Much, Much More Gas and Oil Than We Thought ... The United States has double the amount of oil and three times the amount of natural gas than previously thought, ... |
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05/03/13 - Sweden Is Not So Equal
The Real Reason for Swedish 'Equality' ... Super-Economy: The Upper Class and Wealth Inequality in Sweden ... Sweden is viewed as an egalitarian utopia by outsiders, but ... |
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05/03/13 - Iraq Readies for Civil War?
'The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict... will be 'worse than Syria' ... The Sunni rise again: Uprising in Syria emboldens Iraq's minority ... |
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05/03/13 - Law Enforcement's Anti-Business Turn
Q&A: The FBI's role in 'manufacturing' Terrorism ... An interview with Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory – By Daniel Schwartz, CBC News ... ... |
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05/03/13 - Shock: Federal Reserve Official Calls for End of Fed, Competing Currencies
John Stossel: Speaks to Ex-Federal Reserve Employee – Fox Dominant Social Theme: The Fed knows best. Free-Market Analysis: This is a fairly shocking video in the sense ... |
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05/02/13 - Obamacare: Opportunity Amidst the Wreckage, but Not Forever
Train Wreck Ahead ... Most Americans — even those who are legislators — know very little about the details of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, so-called ... |
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05/02/13 - Promotion of US-Mexico Union Continues in the Mainstream
Which Mexico for Obama? ... When President Barack Obama meets this week with President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico, he will be visiting a country that was much maligned ... |
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05/02/13 - Times Bemoans Poverty, Neglects Solution
Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession ...Given the dynamics of the housing recovery and the rebound in the stock market, the wealth gap might still be growing, ... |
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05/02/13 - Chinese Should Drop Cash Like Other Modern Economies
Chinese Way of Doing Business - In Cash We Trust ... Lugging nearly $130,000 in cash into a dealership might sound bizarre, but it's not exactly uncommon in China, where hotel ... |
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05/01/13 - Here Comes the New Fed Boss
Possible Fed Successor Has Admirers and Foe ... Ms. Yellen is now widely viewed as a logical candidate to succeed the current Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, when his term ends ... |
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05/01/13 - Madness of a Stimulating Fed
Is the Federal Reserve Insane? ... Americans have been whipsawed by devastating cycles of boom and bust over the past three decades. Now some at the Fed want us to go through ... |
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05/01/13 - A Modest Monetary Proposal
Billionaires Flee Havens as Trillions Pursued Offshore ... Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russia's 14th-richest person, and his wife, Elena Rybolovleva, have been brawling for ... |
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05/01/13 - Is the Consumer Really More Confident?
Consumer confidence rebounds in April ... Consumer confidence rebounded in April as Americans felt better about the outlook for the economy and their income prospects, ... |
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04/30/13 - EU's Serious Gamble: 'There Will Be More Wealth Confiscation'
There will be more wealth confiscation, without a doubt' ... Savers and investors face further "wealth confiscation" in Europe as the continent struggles to resolve the single ... |
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04/30/13 - Who Are the Monarchs of Money?
Neil Macdonald: The 'monarchs of money' and the war on savers ... Power Shift: First in a series on the rise of the central bankers and the global imposition of cheap credit ... |
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04/30/13 - 300 Million Young People Out of Work? Economist Mag Suggests 'Solution'
Generation jobless ... "YOUNG people ought not to be idle. It is very bad for them," said Margaret Thatcher in 1984. She was right: there are few worse things that society can ... |
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04/30/13 - The Impossible Problem of Old People
Global Aging 2013: Rising To The Challenge ... Since October 2010, when Standard & Poor's Ratings Services published our last update on the implications of population aging ... |
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04/30/13 - Fisker's Spendthrift Tale: Failure of Green Government Action
Fisker Spent $660,000 on Each $103,000 Plug-in Car ... Fisker Automotive Inc. spent more than six times as much U.S. taxpayer and investor money to produce each luxury plug-in ... |
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04/30/13 - Self-Delusion of Barry Diller?
Newsweek/Daily Beast Owner: 'I Wish I Hadn't Bought Newsweek, It Was a Mistake' ... The Newsweek/Daily Beast owner, Barry Diller, shared his regrets today on Bloomberg TV: ... |
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04/29/13 - Gun-slinging Woman Takes on Effete Fed – and Makes It Better!
Fed's Esther George: speaking up for middle America ... Federal Reserve officials, as a rule, can expect a tough crowd when they visit places like Oklahoma where suspicion of ... |
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04/29/13 - Farce of the Bundesbank
Bundesbank declares 'war' on Mario Draghi bond bail-out at Germany's top court. Germany's Bundesbank has issued a devastating attack on the bond rescue policies of the European ... |
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04/29/13 - Advocates for Monetary Central Planning Grow More Confused by the Day
The great economic experiment of 2013: Ben Bernanke vs. austerity ... We rarely get to see a major, nationwide economic experiment at work, but so far 2013 has been one of ... |
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04/29/13 - True Cost of Energy Efficiency?
In 2012, America had the most energy efficient economy in US history. The EIA released new energy data this week showing that the U.S. had the most energy-efficient economy in ... |
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04/29/13 - AEI's Half-A-Loaf Analysis Is Better than None
Earth Day and Four Decades of Fear ... A vast array of blatherings have accumulated over the years, warning the end is nigh. Earth Day means never having to say "Don't worry." ... |
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04/26/13 - $2 Trillion US Underground Economy Is the Free Market Striking Back?
$2 Trillion Underground Economy May Be Recovery's Savior ... Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion. The growing underground economy ... |
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04/26/13 - NAU Redux: US Military and Civil Officials Set to Police in Canada
RCMP grapples with questions of FBI authority in Canada ... In the wake of a dramatic RCMP reveal of two people arrested in Canada in connection with a plot to derail a ... |
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04/26/13 - Euro Debacle: Is a Big Dominant Social Theme in Trouble?
Euro may only last five years, says senior German government advisor ... The euro has a "limited chance of survival" and may only endure another five years, Kai Konrad, one of ... |
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04/26/13 - From German Recession to Euro Jeopardy
Germany will enter recession, says George Soros ... As one of America's most successful investors warns the eurocrisis is far from over, we consider the investment case for ... |
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04/25/13 - Monopoly Central Banking Is Weaker Than You Think
Everything you 'know' about the Fed is wrong ... 5 misconceptions about the effects of QE and monetary policy ... Few would still argue against the assertion that the Federal ... |
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04/25/13 - Did Krugman Win the Austerity Argument?
The Economic Argument Is Over — Paul Krugman Has Won ... For the past five years, a fierce war of words and policies has been fought in America and other economically ... |
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04/25/13 - Confirmation of Our Austerity Analysis as the EU Stumbles
The Austerity Movement Is Crumbling ... The big news in economics last week was the paper by a UMASS Grad Student showing that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart had ... |
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04/24/13 - Again, Reuters Compares Central Bankers to Superheroes!
Banker steps into the role of superhero ... In other ages, we have called on shamans or saints in times of crisis when the usual remedies have not worked. In the stagnant world ... |
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04/24/13 - Homeland Security Backs Immigration Bill – North American Union on the Way?
Janet Napolitano: Immigration bill important step ... Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano mounted a vigorous defense of the Senate Gang of Eight's comprehensive ... |
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04/24/13 - Why Gold's Real Dilemma Is Not 'Reverting to the Mean'
Gold's Declining Price Is a Reversion to the Mean ... Since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, conservatives have been predicting that inflation is right around the ... |
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04/24/13 - If You Are Wealthy, You Are Just Lucky
How Did the World's Rich Get That Way? Luck ...Why are some people so rich and others so poor? Is it from good choices or good luck? Hard work, smarts, and ability—or ... |
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04/24/13 - What Needs to Be Done
Wealthiest Americans Only Winners in Recovery, Pew Says ... The U.S. economy has recovered for households with net worth of $500,000 or more, a new study shows. The recession ... |
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04/23/13 - Germany Out of the Euro or the Great Synthesis Has Begun?
German 'Alternative': Parallel Currency Idea Carries Great Risks ... A new German protest party is proposing the gradual re-introduction of the national currencies of highly ... |
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04/23/13 - EU Backs Off Austerity
Limit Austerity, EU Official Says A top European Union official signaled his support Monday for relaxing Europe's austerity drive, in what could be a significant break for ... |
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04/23/13 - What is Greece, and What Does It Pull?
Greece will probably pull through ... Greece is not yet out of the woods. But there is a credible path that could lead the country back into the sunlight. That's the main ... |
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04/23/13 - Is Obama Blowing a Bubble?
Re-inflating the bubble ... Obama hired back all the Clinton-era officials who caused the housing bust — so they can do it all over again ... In the 1990s, convinced that ... |
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04/22/13 - Suddenly Carbon is a US$6 Trillion Bubble
Carbon-Intensive Investors Risk $6 Trillion 'Bubble,' Study Says ... Investors in carbon-intensive business could see $6 trillion wasted as policies limiting global warming ... |
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04/22/13 - Time Proclaims the Death of Carbon Marts: Enter Coercion
The green jewel was the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—the European-wide carbon market, by far the largest such system in the world. The ETS, launched in 2005, allowed ... |
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04/22/13 - The Real Problem With the US Economy Is Not Enough Workers and a Sluggish Internet
Free exchange – Where did everyone go? ... Demography may explain the weakness of America's recovery ... The notion that America's potential growth has slipped is not ... |
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04/22/13 - Jaw-Dropping African Promotion Continues
The hottest frontier ...When you are trying to keep a retail outfit afloat amid hyperinflation, it helps to have a sideline. "We had a business selling crocodile skins to ... |
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04/19/13 - US Failing Again: Never Ending Downturn
Jobs, factory data point to slowing economy ... Economic data for January and February suggested that growth accelerated in the first quarter after activity almost stalled in ... |
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04/19/13 - For Real? CNN Poll Finds All Is Well in US
For first time in six years, half of Americans say U.S. running well ... A national poll released on Friday found 50 percent of Americans believe the United States is running ... |
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04/19/13 - Inevitable Futility of Austerity? Britain Down for the Count?
The Biggest Economic Experiment Of The Last 5 Years Has Ended In Disaster ... The U.K.'s economic story for the past five years has been bleak. Since then there have been two ... |
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04/19/13 - Gold's Black Market?
Meltdown? 15% of world's gold miners face collapse after plunge in price strips $169-billion off market value ... Gold's 9.3% plunge on April 15, the biggest one-day drop in ... |
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04/18/13 - Central Bank Superheroes in the Gears of the Machine
Insight: Central bankers cast as superheroes with no script ... Top central banks have slashed rates to zero, pumped in vast amounts of cash, helped orchestrate bailouts and ... |
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04/18/13 - More Hints That Bernanke Is Leaving
Bernanke Is One of the Most Consequential Central Bankers of All Time ... The Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most important government entities when it comes to the ... |
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04/18/13 - An Infinite Contempt for Gold
Gold's decline shakes the true believers' faith ... The dramatic slide in the price of gold in the past week has reversed a rise that for more than a decade has been steady and ... |
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