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| | REDC Breakdown
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| | Samwick Media Watch
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out
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| | Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)
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| | King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)
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| | Makes me cringe
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| | Selfish/Self-Interested, by Bryan Caplan (Agree or disagree: "Selfish" is to "self-interested" as "cheap" is to "thrifty."Please explain your answer. ...)
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| | If I Taught Greg Mankiw's Seminar, by Arnold Kling (His list of books for a freshman seminar in economics includes a diverse selection, including Bryan's Myth of the Rational Voter, which is the only...)
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| | Unchecked and Unbalanced Watch, by Arnold Kling (Pete Peterson writes,
the Los Angeles City Council is expected to overturn the 36-year-old policy of city-funded sidewalk repair, returning...)
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| | Is the Taylor Rule Really a Rule?, by Arnold Kling (John Taylor writes,
The Taylor rule says that the federal funds rate should equal 1.5 times the inflation rate plus .5 times the GDP gap plus 1....)
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| | Apple misses the TV game again (TV is a mess. It is hard to navigate to what you want to watch without having to deal with a mess of technology and diverse business plans rooted in crappy copyright...)
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| | What does HDR mean for photos? (Apple announced yesterday that it would be building HDR processing into its iPhone camera. There is already an app for that and the two pictures here that I took the...)
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| | Ping?s big flaw (Apple introduced a new social network yesterday — Ping. Ping basically allows you to share your iTunes music, video and other interests with you friends. On paper, it is a great...)
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| | Why Hoover is considered a do-nothing (In this excerpt from my interview with historian David Kennedy, I asked him to discuss the standard view that Hoover’s ideology tied his hands and kept him...)
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| | If I Were A Shill for Industry?. (Today’s breathless discussion about wealthy people supporting free-market and classical-liberal causes reminds me that, if I’ve sold my soul or my...)
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| | Progress (In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman, the first portable music player. It weighed 14 ounces and cost $200. It could play a cassette that could hold about 90 minutes of music. It was a little...)
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| | Gladstone Was No Neocon (This essay by Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi reminds (my vanity speaking, I realize) of what I believe is the very first blog post that I ever...)
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| | The sublime and the mundane (Here are two videos (one long–45 minutes, one vey short–under two minutes) that make me feel glad to be alive and inspire me. The first is the incredible...)
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| | German Military Study Warns of Potential Energy Crisis (This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is...)
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| | BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Preparing to Move - and Open Thread (The annotations to the ROV feeds from BP are becoming a little more descriptive, particularly with those related to the Q4000, which will...)
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| | Drumbeat: September 2, 2010 (John Michael Greer - Green Wizardry: A response to Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins is a smart guy, and even though he?s garbled a fair number of the details, his post raises useful...)
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| | State Tax Revenues Slowly Rebound ... But (The Nelson Rockefeller Institute reports State Tax Revenues Are Slowly Rebounding. However, as always, the devil is in the details. Let's take a...)
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| | How Much Do You Know About the Expiring Tax Cuts? Take this Short Quiz and Find Out (The Tax Foundation has put up a 10-question quiz for users to test their knowledge of the Bush tax cuts and what...)
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| | Steve Johnson Posts Tax Articles on SSRN (Steve R. Johnson (UNLV) has posted a third tranche (Part 1, Part 2) of his tax papers on SSRN: When General Statutes and Specific Statutes Conflict, 57 Tax...)
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| | Hatfield: Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, and the Ethics of Casual Conversation (Michael Hatfield (Texas Tech) has posted Tax Lawyers, Tax Defiance, and the Ethics of Casual Conversation on SSRN. Here is...)
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| | Higher Ed Bubble Dwarfs Housing Bubble (Mark J. Perry (University of Michigan-Flint, School of Management), The Higher Education Bubble Is About to Burst (CarpeDiem): Note that the housing bubble...)
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| | SOI Releases Summer 2010 SOI Bulletin (The IRS's Statistics of Income Division yesterday released the Summer 2010 SOI Bulletin (Vol. 30, No. 1) with these four articles: Sole Proprietorship Returns,...)
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| | Marty Ginsburg's Last Speech (Law Week Colorado, Justice Ginsburg Reads Late Husband?s Funny, Heart-Warming Speech: Martin Ginsburg?s speech recounted how an obscure 10th Circuit tax case, which the...)
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| | Al Sharpton Channels Rod Blagojevich (Rod Blagojevich: President Obama's senate seat ?is a f?-ing valuable thing, you just don?t give it away for nothing,? Al Sharpton: On the anniversary of Martin...)
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| | Good Start to the Month
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| | Swing Trade Hotlist
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| | ISM Chart (Here's the latest chart on the Institute for Supply Management index:
As I've discussed before, this is one of the best metrics for telling us if we're in a recession or not. Notice...)
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| | Thursday links: secret sauces (Is the “cult of equity” dead and buried? (FT Alphaville)
A look at recent AAII sentiment numbers. (Charts Gone Wild, Bespoke)
What the MOVE index is...)
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| | Thursday screencast: manufacturing melt-up (Yesterday’s ISM Manufacturing data took many market participants by surprise. In today’s screencast we note that maybe this should not have...)
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| | A Real Black Swan...
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| | JOBLESS CLAIMS DIP, BUT REAL PROGRESS IS STILL MIA (Jobless claims fell slightly last week, dropping by 6,000. That's good news. The trouble is that we're still at an elevated 472,000 on a seasonally...)
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| | A BRIGHT LIGHT IN A DARK ROOM (Manufacturing activity turned up again last month, the Institute for Supply Management reported yesterday, offering the first statistical review of August's economic...)
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| | Do Not Be Fearful Or Negative Too Often
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| | Success Is A Process Of Continually Seeking Answers To New Questions
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| | Turn Each Mistake Into A Learning Experience
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| | Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.
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| | When good (lefty) papers go bad.
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| | Bloomberg Gold Survey: Take a Chance? (Gold in Mind submits: Tuesday, Bloomberg revealed the results of its gold price survey. Bloomberg surveyed 29 analysts about expected gold price highs in 2011....)
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| | SLV Silver Holdings Nearing Record High (Tim Iacono submits: The holdings at the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV) have been climbing recently, some 129 tonnes of the metal added in just the last seven...)
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| | Gold and Silver Market Suppression Failures Flash Buy Signal, Part 4 (Robert Kientz submits:This is Part 4 of a 5-part series on gold and silver price analysis. Please read Parts 1, 2, and 3 before...)
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| | Commodities: Hoarding vs. Shorting (Jeff Nielson submits:Given the decades of rampant manipulation of the precious metals markets on the “short” side of trading, it is more than ironic that...)
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| | The Yellow Metal to Own for the Next 10 Years (Kevin McElroy submits: Deutsche Bank analyst predicts $1,550 gold for 2011We're in the early stage of a huge uptrendMy strongest recommendation...)
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| | Precious Metals Challenge Resistance Levels as Physical Market Remains Tight (Mark O'Byrne submits:
Gold: Risk appetite increased yesterday as the first day of the new month saw equity buyers...)
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| | Government Cuts Out Private Sector In Foreclosure Market (What do you call cutting out part of the marketplace to support a special interest. If it was done in the private sector the government would...)
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| | Recession Impacts 73% Of Americans ? How Will That Affect Your Business (A new survey just released shows that 3 out of every 4 American’s have been affected by the recession. The report,...)
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| | Exactly one year later
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| | Mortgage rates hit decades-low of 4.32% (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | August Stats Preview: Continued Credit Hangover (With August in the rear view mirror, it’s time for another monthly stats preview. Most of the charts below are based on broad county-wide data...)
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| | Downtown Sunnyvale: So Convenient to Construction Sites (It?s been a while since we featured a property in Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale isn?t considered a ?prestige? address such as Portola Valley or...)
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| | Thank you William! (A letter to the editor printed in the Mahwah Suburban News, written by William P. Deegan Jr. Letter: Question accuracy of real estate story After opening the [Aug. 19] Mahwah...)
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| | Pending Home Sales: July 2010
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| | Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims September 02 2010
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| | Before the Open - Sep 2
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| | Long Cable
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| | Close Cable trade
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| | "Free Markets Foster Competition" (That's a chapter title from Jonathan Franzen's new book Freedom. If you think you are going to like this book, you almost certainly will; it delivers on its...)
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| | The Small Schools Myth (Did Bill Gates waste a billion dollars because he failed to understand the formula for the standard deviation of the mean? Howard Wainer makes the case in the entertaining...)
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| | Why so much BS in the corporate world? (Chris, a loyal MR reader, asks: Why does the corporate world use language so inefficiently? Why turn a simple thing like "talking to a client about their...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | Pending Home Sales increase in July
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| | Weekly initial unemployment claims decline slightly
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| | I Thought We Won (As we approach the 21st anniversary of the triumph of freedom and capitalism over oppression and central planning, I keep wondering if we squandered the victory. Political rhetoric...)
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| | Dick Fuld?s Fantastic Revisionism ! (?Lehman was forced into bankruptcy not because it neglected to act responsibly or seek solutions to the crisis, but because of a decision, based on flawed...)
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| | Re-risk ? prudently (Bull markets are born out of distress — witness March 2009. Bear Markets are born out of prosperity — witness 2008-early 2009.
Liquidating/de-risking out of equities...)
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| | Retailers Need a Fresh Start (Retailers need a fresh start
Andy Xie
Caixin Online
Aug. 30, 2010
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BEIJING: China’s gross domestic product surpassed Japan in the second quarter of 2010. The...)
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| | Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times:
?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)
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| | Manhattan Co-op Maintenance Up 19% (
[click to open article]
AnnaMaria Andriotis at SmartMoney asked me to look at the state of maintenance charges for Manhattan co-ops on an annualized...)
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| | [ChartPorn] New York City Foreclosures et al (Crain’s New York just released their City-Facts edition which is chock full of data (including ours). Here are a few key charts in the residential...)
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| | [RSS] Thursday Morning Before Earl Infomosis (
And some other interesting stuff that’s been accumulating in my RSS reader…
[West Side Spirit] Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer...)
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| | 90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy
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| | Opening Bell: 09.02.10 (Bernanke Meets Buffett In Role Conceived To Protect Markets (Bloomberg)
Under the Dodd-Frank law, Bernanke?s Fed gains powers never before housed in one regulator. The central...)
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| | Daiy News on BHP, Petrobras, GE, Apple...
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| | Trade #Options Like a DPM Webinars
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| | A REALLY Bad Time to Chase Momentum
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| | Who Sets The Price Of A Stock?
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| | The Oxen Report: Unemployment Claims Dip But Is It Enough to Make the Market Green? (Happy Thursday to all. The market is looking interesting today. We have some solid drop in the unemployment claims...)
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| | Thursday - Back Home In The Range (Wheee, that was fun!
We’re already back in our range after all that hand-wringing last week. I like to do these perspective charts once in a while even...)
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| | Options Trading Volume And Open Interest (Learn how these two statistics can give you an edge in trading options.
...)
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| | Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect
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| | Introduction to Internal Rate of Return (IRR) (Today?s Quiz:What is my return on the following investment:I bought my first investment property back in August 2008. I paid $63,500 for the house using...)
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| | Real Estate Investing Rules from Richard Branson (“Even after careful research, not all ideas are good; sometimes your competitors have better ideas or they?re faster than you. The modern...)
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| | The 4 Most Important Things to Remember When Evaluating Real Estate Deals (There are a lot of things to consider when evaluating a deal. As real estate investors, we must find great deals. Not good...)
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| | Weekly jobless claims down to 472,000 (
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| | Construction Spending for February 2007 ( The report from the Census comes out today at 10am ...)
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| | Construction Spending for January 2007 ( Report comes out this morning at 10am Full article...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).
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| | REDC Breakdown
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| | Samwick Media Watch
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out
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| | Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)
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| | King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)
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| | Lawrence Lindsey Vs. Christy Romer, by Arnold Kling (She says,
by June, before the Recovery Act could have had much of an impact, it was 9½ percent. That is, our projection turned out to be wrong even...)
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| | UNH Hosts Intellectual Property Tax Challenge (The University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly the Franklin Pierce Law Center) is hosting its first Intellectual Property Tax Challenge: The tax...)
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| | Kahng: Investment Income Withholding in the U.S. and Germany (Lily Kahng (Seattle) has published Investment Income Withholding in the United States and Germany, 10 Fla. Tax Rev. 315 (2010). Here is...)
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| | NFP, How Do I Trade Thee? (Woohoo! The first Friday of the month is coming up and y'all know what that means: It's time for the NFP! Here's what I think the August report has in...)
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| | Swing Trade Hotlist
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| | A Dream House After All (Karl Case says the American dream is still alive: A Dream House After All, by Karl Case, Commentary, NY Times: If you read the coverage of the latest figures on the sales of...)
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| | links for 2010-09-01 (What Kind of Model Is Brian Riedl Using? - Econbrowser Breaking down the ISM numbers - FT Alphaville Bond Market Instability in a Liquidity Trap - Andy Harless Why America Isn?t...)
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| | Do Not Be Fearful Or Negative Too Often
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| | Success Is A Process Of Continually Seeking Answers To New Questions
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| | Turn Each Mistake Into A Learning Experience
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| | Charles Nenner says long term cycle bottoms soon.
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| | When good (lefty) papers go bad.
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| | The Muddle Years ? Why the California economy is destined for years of slow growth and declining home values. 10 charts showing California still deep in recession and no state budget as we enter September.
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| | Exactly one year later
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| | Case-Shiller Tiers: Low Tier Boosted as Credit Expires (Let’s check out the three price tiers for the Seattle area, as measured by Case-Shiller. Remember, Case-Shiller’s...)
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| | Long Cable
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| | Close Cable trade
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| | Are cruise ships saving the theatre industry? (Cruise entertainment doesn't have the best of reputations, but I took my maiden voyage earlier this year and it was a real eye-opener. I was there to...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | What Kind of Model Is Brian Riedl Using? (If one wants to be taken seriously in the world of policy analysis, one should at least use an internally consistent framework. This consideration, apparently,...)
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| | Freakonomics the Movie (Trailer) (FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the...)
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| | Fast Money: Will Obama Spoil the Party? (What President Obama should do next for the economy, with Barry Ritholtz, FusionIQ.
Wed. Sept. 1 2010 | :42:0 10 ET
I need a hair...)
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| | Mortgage Debt is Snowballing (New York Times:
?There is no silver bullet,? said the official, Steve O?Connor, a senior vice president of the association. ?There is no single solution to the housing...)
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| | 90% Marginal Tax Rate for the Middle Class
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy
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| | Top 12 Small Gainers - 1st September
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| | Trade #Options Like a DPM Webinars
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| | Milestones Past, Present and Future
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| | A REALLY Bad Time to Chase Momentum (The best illustration I can find to show how bad it's been of late for momentum-chasers is the IBD 100. The highest rated stocks in the 100 are supposed to be the...)
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| | Silicon Valley Real Estate and the Inverse GOOG Effect
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| | ?The American dream is not dead ? it?s just taking a well-deserved rest.? (From the New York Times, economist Karl Case of Case-Shiller fame says: Buy! This financial crisis has made us all too aware...)
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| | Construction Spending for February 2007 ( The report from the Census comes out today at 10am ...)
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| | Construction Spending for January 2007 ( Report comes out this morning at 10am Full article...)
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| | Come join me at my new blog: "Soot and Ashes - Reinventing America After the Housing Crash"
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| | LIVEBLOGGING NOW.. Alright, I'm all settled in, caffeinated up, ready to see if America pulls its head out of its ass tonight
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS?
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation).
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| | REDC Breakdown
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| | Samwick Media Watch
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| | The UCLA Fly-Out
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| | Gender equity and vertical equity (I'm spending today writing a review of Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia's new book Taxation and Gender Equity.The review is for the journal Feminist Economics, but...)
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| | Daniel Libby visits King Island, 1867 (Construction of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable pushed the limits of 19th Century technology. In the 1860s construction was begun on an alternative telegraph...)
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| | King Island and the Russian Fur Traders, 1822 (When westerners began to visit the Bering Strait, they were touching the jugular of a thriving trade in furs between America and Asia. Furs from central...)
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| | Fundamentals of Australian House Price Inflation
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| | The Broken Windscreen Fallacy
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| | Oil Bubble Talk is Back, by Arnold Kling (CNBC quotes Peter Beutel,
I honestly think that if there were no investors using oil as an asset that the price of oil right now would be $10 or $15 or $18,...)
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| | Thomas Sargent, Master Macroeconomist, by Arnold Kling (In an interview, he says,
the more dynamic, uncertain and ambiguous is the economic environment that you seek to model, the more you are going...)
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| | David Friedman on Eggs and Quality, by David Henderson (I had missed David Friedman's post last week on eggs and quality. The whole thing is worth reading. He points out that even though the British...)
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| | Hoover vs. Roosevelt (Here is a five minute excerpt from my interview with David Kennedy. He compares Hoover and Roosevelt’s economic policies in response to the Great Depression. His answer...)
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| | Pollution Trends (Pollution trends – here and here. (And I know that, for at least some pollutants, the trends were also downward – that is, good – prior to 1970.) (HT Ross...)
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