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Imploding markets
Well, the Dow Jones index is back at the 1997 levels - slightly above 8,000 points - and many people seem very anxious. This is a thread for your opi…
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Brent crude oil price back below USD 100
Brent at USD 99.56 The U.S. benchmark is currently above USD 102. The previous article about a similar topic - and peak oil - was written when the B…
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Larry Summers: let's stop the "excess of fear"
Obama's top economic adviser gave this crisp speech that shows how the crises are being created by unbalanced interventions of the government. Th…
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Right-wingers are a major force driving the Silicon Valley
And Trump is making the innovators more influential than the previous PC admins The Guardian has published a nontrivial investigative article about t…
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Billionaires' bloodshed
Forbes has published the new list of dollar billionaires . See also Wikipedia . The mainstream media love to write piles of flagrantly untrue populi…
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Swedish monetary policy: a success
Nominal GDP targeting seems clever Sweden is one of the EU countries that didn't enter the eurozone and it's arguably the most healthy countr…
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Lawrence Summers vs moral hazard fundamentalists
Prof Lawrence Summers responds to some questions and issues that we raised in a previous article about the credit crisis . One of my main points was…
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Personal fudge factor
Sorry for the multi-day passivity. I was giving a climate talk to curious, clever, and spontaneous teenagers at a Pilsner high school, an interview a…
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Al Jazeera buys TV from Al Gore et al.
There's been lots of interesting science news – for example, Neil Armstrong has apparently lied to us when he was saying that he invented the &qu…
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Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity". We…
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Stagnation as an excuse for sustained high P/E
Bubbles will arrive before inflation When I was six or so, I had an idea that many other kids – and many of you – probably have also arrived to. If o…
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