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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
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, The Global Economy
Tagged Federal Reserve, gold, inflation, interest rate, interest rates, US dollar, US economy
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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:
Posted in Business, Politics
Tagged federal government, FedEx, Freedom, liberty, Reason, unions, UPS, US government, US politics
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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
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:
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged commodities, commodity bubble, credit, economy, Federal Reserve, Finance, Financial Markets, global economy, gold, loans, Nouriel Roubini, Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, silver, Timothy Geithner, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, US dollar, US economy, US politics
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Debating on whether we should audit the Fed
Posted in Finance, The Global Economy
Tagged credit, Federal Reserve, interest rates, US government
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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.
Posted in Ethics, Politics, Science
Tagged climate change, climate science, Earth science, global warming, global-warming fraud, Planet Earth
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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
Posted in People, Psychology
Tagged characters, People, profiles, Psychology, results, Robin Hanson
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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.