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Calculated Risk is one of the best blogs out there. But I think this post makes a serious mistake regarding the debt ceiling negotiation: .., but one thing
In just the time it takes to blink an eye.
Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of productivity incentives in the public sector is sparse. However donor enthusiasm is growing for this general approach and certain lessons are emerging. In the spirit of the “learning from failure” movement now emphasized in the World Bank, two recent studies present lessons from relatively unsuccessful public sector incentive pilots. These lessons...
Here is an interesting paper by Srinivas Raghavendra on how the current crisis...
Facebook Inc doubled its mobile advertising revenue in the fourth quarter, a sign that the No.1 social network is seeing early success in expanding onto handheld devices as more of its users migrate to ...
Earnings season is in full swing and the coming week will have many big earnings announcements. 24/7 Wall St. Monday, January 28
Everything from per-capita ice cream consumption to the "1994 scenario" that keeps bond traders up at night.
...all of these are topics that I think fall within the proper purview of this event. And now that they have given me the keys, I am trying to think about how to make it as productive as possible. Here...
A wonderful discussion thread has been going on at Monetary Realism (MR) after a very good new post by beowulf (Carlos Mucha), who first brought forward the proposal for the Executive Branch to use the authority provided in the 1996 Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) legislation to fill the public purse, on whether the Fed had a legal basis for turning down PCS in the form of the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC..
Mickey Kaus has an elaborate theory of social equality vs "Money Liberals" that I don't really understand, but that also leads him to want to kick unauthorized migrants out of the United States and curtail the ability of future migrants to come to...
The cash balance retirement plan Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed into law for state workers was declared unconstitutional by a state district judge because it did not pass the Louisiana House of Representatives with a two-thirds majority. The cash balance plan would shift considerable risk onto workers without addressing the issue of unfunded liabilities caused by elected officials’ failure to keep up with required contributions.
Compared to where we were at the same time last year, acute risks have decreased. The United States has avoided the fiscal cliff, and the euro explosion in Europe did not occur. And uncertainty is ...
Markets are abuzz this morning as the DJIA is set to open higher for the eleventh day in the last twelve. As of yesterday's close, the index was just 2.4% below its all-time closing high of 14,164.53 reached on 10/9/07.
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In the beginning, there was Keynesian economics; then came Post-Keynesian economics. After Post-Keynesian economics, came Modern Monetary Theory. And now it seems, John Taylor has discovered Post...
Is this conference about economic webloggers, about weblogging...
Time to let the data do the talking.
The second week of the earnings season is set to close out. Below is the reported EPS and revenue growth by sector as well as the percentage of positive or negative surprise. Financial institutions continue to stand out, posting...
There is much hype about “currency wars” in the international media this week, reaching the heights of the Davos gathering. The excitement seems to have been started by Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann, who earlier this week aired his concerns about an...
Former U.S. Attorney was involved in one of the SEC's most notorious scandals
Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620¬–1720, laid the foundation for England’s political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a...
A new Web Index just went live. Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index — http://thewebindex.org/ — is a multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. It covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure. There’s a 2012 index and other details on the Web Index site.
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As the Australian Open approaches the business end, this year’s instalment has developed a palpable sense of familiarity of recent years about it. Each of the top four seeded men made the semi-finals, and it’s hard to escape the feeling that fourth-ranked Rafael Nadal would have been in the place of his compatriot David Ferrer if he were present. And so we have the familiar trio of Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic left standing.
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