Economics Archive
The Bulls Are Idiots
December 20, 2009 · Category: Economics, Macro Economics, Market Commentary, Sentiment Analysis, The Investment Advice Business
Last week, two prominent commentators came out with bullish pieces. I was anxious to read them to measure the bullish case, but in the end I was unpersuaded.
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The first piece was from Princeton Economist, and ...
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A Stab At Resolving The Inflation/Deflation Debate
There is a great debate raging between students of monetary economics. On the one hand, there are the deflationists who point to the massive deleveraging in the housing, mortgage, credit and stock markets. The fall ...
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Ken Fisher: We Need More Debt
September 21, 2009 · Category: Economics, The Investment Advice Business
Last week Ken Fisher went on TechTicker and said that the US is under-indebted and that more debt would actually be beneficial to the economy. That's because our rate of return on assets is higher ...
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SI: How Oversupply Killed The Baseball Card Industry
August 31, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Culture and Current Events, Economics
My sales from '88 to '92 were $10,000 to $13,000 a month, and the cost of goods was only $1,000 to $2,000 a month. Then they started putting out so much product, raising the price ...
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A Consensus Among Economists: The Recession Is Over
26 of 45 economists who responded to a WSJ survey question conducted over the last few days said the recession is already over. Another 12 believe it will end this month (August) or next. Another 6 believe ...
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Krugman: Big Government Saved Us
So it seems that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government.
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So what saved us from a full replay of the Great Depression? ...
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US Post Office To Run $7 Billion Deficit In 2009
Interesting article in today's New York Times on the US Postal Service: "Increasing Postal Deficits Intensify Talks On Solution", July 30, B1.
This highlights a key difference between the operations of a private company and a ...
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Bill O’Reilly Does Economics - Badly
July 29, 2009 · Category: Culture and Current Events, Economics
Bill O'Reilly kicked off his O'Reilly Factor program yesterday (video here) claiming that a front page WSJ story on oil speculators driving the price of oil ("Traders Blamed For Oil Spike" (subscription required), WSJ, July 28, A1) vindicated his ...
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Krugman: Goldman Sachs Profits Are Bad For America
Krugman is relentless in his calls for increasing government involvement in the economy and regulation:
What’s clear is that Wall Street in general, Goldman very much included, benefited hugely from the government’s provision of a financial backstop ...
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WSJ Profiles The Increasingly Popular Economics Blogs
I never thought I'd be sitting up late at night reading what Ben Bernanke thinks, but now I do.
- Zina Poletz, a Minneapolis public relations executive who says she had little interest in economics prior ...
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