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Posts Tagged ‘Economics’
June 1st, 2014 - 10:32 am § in Misc.
The Wealth Tax: Senator Elizabeth Warren and Professor Thomas Piketty
April 21st, 2014 - 8:54 am § in Environment
BERKELEY BLOG: Will Blocking Keystone Be Good For the Environment?
Not building Keystone XL will likely leave a billion barrels of bitumen in the ground Maximillian Auffhammer, associate professor, agricultural and resource economics | 3/25/14 I am not a fan of blanket statements. Whenever oil sands come up in casual conversation, many of my economist friends argue[...]
Can China, Inc. Replace Hamilton’s America?
“Outside China, pessimism has been growing about the ability of the colossus to sustain its rapid growth. Worriers are paying particular attention to excessive capacity, investment and debt.” Francis Fukyama, Reagan’s house intellectual, wrote a compelling book claiming that social[...]
March 10th, 2014 - 11:15 am § in Misc.
How Does A Company Based on a Virtual Coin Go Bankrupt?
(Reuters) – Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system. Clearly, traders didn’t use the bitco[...]
July 26th, 2012 - 9:43 am § in America
Detroit
Last year I visited this same place. I was in Ann Arbor to celebrate a bat mitzvah but spent as much free time as coud “seeing Detroit.” In the past, the death of an American city have beem translated into iconic works by Capa, Smith, Frank, or their modern equivalents working for [...]
March 27th, 2012 - 6:40 pm § in America
Tax the Toys!
This past summer, billionaire Warren Buffett dusted off an old line about how his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does, and ever since there’s been a running debate over tax fairness. ….From one angle of view, this seems absurd, particularly in a country that boasts of a progressive[...]
March 14th, 2012 - 1:00 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Mulally, the Book
Remember Boeing? The aircraft company founded in Seattle that moved to Chicago to please McDonald Douglas? Oh yeh .. after Alan Mulally rebuilt the commercial aircraft division? What happened to Mulally .. the Seattle guy?[...]
February 14th, 2012 - 11:57 pm § in Politics
Economics From Kenya
Inflation dropped to 18.31 per cent from 18.93 per cent recorded in December after hitting a high of 19.72 per cent in November, a drop mainly attributed to transport and communication sectors, with food yet to make any significant dent on the key economic indicator.”Our forecasts indicate tha[...]
Commentary by Norm: How much do you know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
The end of life as we know it? If you DO know about TPP, you may not be so sure that line is much exaggerated. And the TPP has a sequel brewing, the TAFTA. MoveOn is starting up a group to battle against this “NAFTA on Steroids” or “Corporate Coup”, as many are calling it[...]