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How Bad Will it Get?
economistsview.typepad.com - 2/18/2009
How Bad Will it Get?
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It's not looking good. Many people have been trying to make the case that the current downturn is no worse than the downturns in the 1970s and 1980s, but there's reason to think this downturn is following a different, more worrisome trajectory: Unemployment in the current crisis, by Mike ...
newyorker.com - 2/23/2009
James Surowiecki: Wages, productivity, and the unemployment crisis.
— newyorker.com — This is the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Everything. Home prices, the stock market, G.D.P., corporate profits,... employment: they’re all a fraction of what they once were. Yet amid this carnage there is one thing that, surprisingly, has ... (more) James Surowiecki: Wages, productivity, and the ...

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More Employers Fight Unemployment Benefits
washingtonpost.com - 2/12/2009
More Employers Fight Unemployment Benefits
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) More Employers Fight Unemployment Benefits

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How high will the unemployment rate rise?
VoxEU.org - 2/14/2009
How high will the unemployment rate rise?
— VoxEU.org — Mike Elsby , Bart Hobijn , Aysegul Sahin , 14 February 2009 Unemployment is rising – job... losses are up 30% in the US and 50% in the UK since 2007. How bad will it get? This column uses data on unemployment inflows and duration to predict labour ... (more) How high will the unemployment rate rise?

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Angry Bear:  Indications economy on the fritz before credit crunch

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Indications economy on the fritz before credit crunch
Angry Bear — rdan Economist's View carries a post at VoxEU by Mike Elsby, Bart Hobijn, Aysegul Sahin. This especially caught my attention: Figure 1 also highlights a curious fact absent in popular discussions of the crisis. Unemployment in the US had already begun to ramp up in early 2007, long before the official recession start date in December 2007 and the vagaries of the financial crisis that came to a head in the latter half of 2008. Figure 1 suggests that the initial impulse to the current recession may not ...

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Cartoon: Can you believe our luck!
tvhe.co.nz 2/16/2009 — Another quality cartoon from Mike Moreu ( Cartoon’s and blog ): Awesome. This is definitely how it feels at the moment. Lets hope the wave isn’t that big when it hits
Prospects go to great lengths getting ready for combine
cbssports.com 2/13/2009 — It all started with Mike Mamula. A decent college player became a top 10 pick with his workouts at the NFL combine. Now getting ready for Indy is big business, and it's about more than just fast 40 times, Rob Rang says.
DEMO will miss Chris Shipley — VentureBlog
I was deeply saddened to read Erick Schonfeld's post on TechCrunch entitled " DEMO Gets Desperate: Shipley Out, Marshall In ." The feud between Mike Arrington and Chris Shipley has been well documented. Arrington has gone so far as to hope for the demise of the DEMO conference. He and Jason ...
Whatever the expectations (whether they will end up being wrong or right), the prediction markets aggregate them faster than the mass media do —in complicated situations. — Midas Oracle .ORG
That’s my answer to Flubber . What’s yours? Mike, Jason, David, Dave, etc. ---------- Midas Oracle .ORG = Site Map + Archives + Best + Probabilistic Predictions + Post-Mortem + Exchanges + Software + People + Links + Write A Post Or A Page + How To Publish
Do you have a blog? — Midas Oracle .ORG
If yes, you could help by linking to our post: - The truth about prediction markets Thanks. Appreciated. I will make up to you. Three bloggers have already linked to it: - Professor Mike Giberson ; - Professor Andrew Gelman ; - Barry Ritholtz (the #1 Wall Street blogger).  ...
Pessimism Porn: When Giants Fall — Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
My amigo Mike Panzer at Financial Armageddon -- a blog about financial Armageddon , in case you're curious  -- has a new book out about financial armageddon. Called When Giants Fall , Mike's new book gets a review at Bloomberg tonight. Put all sharp objects aside, and here is the sort ...
"Did [Bush's] tax cuts cause the current crisis?" — Newmark's Door
Mike Munger makes short work--108 words--of that dopey claim .
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Any taker? Jason? Jed? Mike? ---------- Midas Oracle .ORG = Site Map + Archives + Best + Probabilistic Predictions + Post-Mortem + Exchanges + Software + People + Links + Write A Post Or A Page + How To Publish
George F. Will as Crank Conspiracy Theorist... — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
More from the Washington Post crashed-and-burned watch. Mark Kleiman: Global-warming denialism as a conspiracy theory : One largely unremarked aspect of global-warming denialism (as exemplified by George Will and demolished by Mike [below] and Zachary Roth at TPM) is that it amounts to a ...
Ovechkin treble gives Caps edge — The Japan Times: All Stories
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) The Florida Panthers shut out Washington's record-setting defenseman, but couldn't stop the NHL's top goal scorer. Mike Green's NHL-record goals streak for defensemen ended at eight games, but Alexander Ovechkin scored three times to give the Capitals a 4-2 victory Sunday.  ...
Has the Schiff Hit the Fan? — Mises Economics Blog
My new article, up at Taki's Magazine , follows the Mike Shedlock-Peter Schiff saga (where Mish claimed Peter was all wrong), and even gets into some of the events surrounding Donald Luskin's numerous attacks on Schiff. In the end, it's a defense of a guy who is a compelling spokesman for ...
Do-It-Yourself Denistry in England — CARPE DIEM
BBC NEWS -- Millions of people in England have resorted to do-it-yourself dentistry, a survey by consumer magazine Which? suggests. Since a new dental contract was introduced in 2006 there has been growing concern over access to care. Mike Penning, the shadow health minister, said: ...
Comment on Facebook by Tags — Comments for Wallstrip
Mike - not I I am saying that I have become apathetic to the service, but admit that I am not the market. There are plenty of amazing features . :(
4 miscellaneous web links you can’t afford to ignore — Midas Oracle .ORG
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Always Be Prepared — TheStockBandit.net
Over the holidays, I encountered a door to door salesman while visiting family. He was 23 years old and his name was Mike. He was selling a cleaning product, and I mean he sold it! Every single rebuttal thrown at Mike was overcome with ease. Sometimes those replies were educational, ...
Forgotten men...National Guard — Angry Bear
rdan Governors are taking a look at the current demands on their National Guard troops. "There is not Congressional authorization for the use of the Guard today," Vermont State Rep. Mike Fisher told Truthout. "One Guard member improperly called into federal service to fight a war - that's a ...
Enzi Lays Down Health Care Marker — Cato @ Liberty
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), the ranking Republican on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, has a good op-ed in today’s edition of The Hill . Enzi rather interestingly does not see Medicare Part D as an example of Congress “simply throwing more money at ...
US authorities 'had been investigating Allen Stanford for 15 years' — World News from Times Online
In-depth investigation | The Internet whistleblower | Mike Atherton | Why investors fell for it | Run on the banks | SEC charge in full | Graphic: Stanford's wagon wheel