modelsagents.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
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The more I think about it, the more I end up concluding that Ben simply lacks cojones . I mean, this is a guy who has made a career writing about the Great Depression; a guy who knows inside-out the menu of policy options available to a Central Bank, when there is not much of an interest ...
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Economist's View —
Not a good sign: the Treasury once again can borrow for free - Brad Setser
Are we seeing the end of a 15-year stock price bubble? - Stephen Gordon
Food prices and food security: Don’t blame liberalisation - voxeu.org
Sheila Bair and seizing Citigroup - Bronte Capital
A thousand of Keynes’s (and my) words - Edge of the American West
The Big Easing - Models & Agents
A Gaping Hole in the Safety Net - Howard Rosen
Sen. James ...
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naked capitalism —
US global dominance 'set to wane' BBC Unable to recognize voices, unless it's Sean Connery The Body Odd Goldman's Gold Standard Is Less Golden Walll Street Journal Sallie Krawchek, when she was an analyst at Sanford Bernstein covering Wall Street, dared to point out the obvious: it was better to be an employee of a securities firm than a shareholder. Note the reverse was generally the case when they were private partnerships. We said when Goldman went public it would eventually be the ruination of the firm. China Now Largest Foreign Creditor Of United States ...
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