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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Need a Light Bulb? Uncle Sam Gets to Choose: Virginia Postrel

If you want to know why so many Americans feel alienated from their government, you need only go to Target and check out the light bulb aisle. Instead of the cheap commodities of yesteryear, you’ll find what looks like evidence of a flourishing, technology-driven economy.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

A Stack of Bills Reaching to the Moon: How to Quantify Our National Debt

Now that the U.S. national debt is in the headlines, the media is awash in astronomical numbers such as $14.3 trillion (the current debt). Everyone realizes that this number is incomprehensible. Even back in 1981, when the national debt was only about $1 trillion, the debt was still incomprehensible. Thus, speechwriters for Ronald Reagan created, or at least popularized, a widely used attempt to give it meaning
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Male Organ and Economic Growth: Does Size Matter? Tatu Westling University of Helsinki


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https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/27239/maleorga.pdf?sequence=4
This article was also posted on Greg Mankiw's Blog and you can see that what Balkan people lack in money the compensate it in other ways. A very scientific approach, a bit raw but very true.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Too Much Debt Means the Economy Can’t Grow: Reinhart and Rogoff

As public debt in advanced countries reaches levels not seen since the end of World War II, there is considerable debate about the urgency of taming deficits with the aim of stabilizing and ultimately reducing debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.

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Protecting your wealth. Ways and solutions

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European Bank Stress Test; Only Eight? Europe Is In Peril!

One does not have to dig too deep to discover the exposure level of the banks from the “big” European nations, France, Germany and the UK. Liability risk to the nations that have already been bailed out i.e. Greece, Ireland and Portugal sums to €500Bn
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Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!

WITH apologies to show business, there’s no business like the business of law school.

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