Monthly Archives: November 2009

Jason Ruspini’s analysis on gold and inflation is the best I’ve seen.

Jason Ruspini: Fortunately, gold doesn’t need inflation to go up. That misperception kept many people out of gold and was one of the reasons why the trade was not actually overcrowded. The dollar is going down, but as Bernanke said, … Continue reading

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Warren Buffett is 100% for the independence of the Federal Reserve.

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UPS is in a political fight with FEDEX.

– “UPS’s workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX’s —and more than twice as expensive.” – “UPS is trying to get FEDEX reclassified under federal law as a way of screwing a competitor.” Reason TV:

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Has the U.S. made the right decisions during the recession?

A variety of economists say that economic stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would. – NYT

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Will the USA legalize real-money gambling and betting over the Internet? — CNBC video

Odds Favoring Online Gambling? – CNBC – Andrew Parmentire, Height Analytics – David Katz, Oppenheimer gaming analyst Download this post to watch the CNBC video –if your feed reader doesn’t show it to you: Via Alexander Ainslie et al. Addendum: … Continue reading

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Peter Schiff disagrees with Nouriel Roubini about whether there is a commodity bubble (e.g., gold).

The 2 links that Peter Schiff talked about in his video: – http://www.europac.net/ – NYT: With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas. What Peter Schiff was referring to:

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Debating on whether we should audit the Fed

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Has a big global-warming fraud just been uncovered?

- Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud? – Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? – More from Memeorandum.

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Is Robin Hanson a fox or a hedgehog? — REDUX

Tyler Cowen praised Robin Hanson. Robin Hanson responds that we should praise “results instead of characters”: the world would be better if we praised folks more for what they did than who they are. Excellent. So, how would you answer … Continue reading

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Bill Gross on the US economy

Bill Gross runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco). Watch the Bloomberg video.

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