16 days ago
wearehugh : Foreclosure fallout: Houses go for a $1
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18 days ago
wearehugh : Sovereign Wealth Funds - Council on Foreign Relations - america is on sale. our prices are IN-SANE!
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22 days ago
Linkorama : The New Workplace Perk - Gas - “An extra $100 a month for gas and you have a real issue that could result in turnover,” Mr. Lewis explained, adding that even with rising unemployment, it is more economical for him to retain workers than hire new people and train them.
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24 days ago
wearehugh : Rising prices offset impact of U.S. stimulus payments : Retail : Ventura County Star - i know, let's do it again! it's sure to work next time!
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2 month ago
jcgregorio : The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation | InjuryBoard Los Angeles - Hard to lay the blame for the second Bush recession all on one man, but Gramm comes close to earning it.
deusx : The Subprime Mess and Phil Gramm: An Experiment in Deregulation | InjuryBoard Los Angeles - "In 1999, former Senator Phil Gramm (who is, incidentally, Senator John McCain's economic adviser and cochairs his presidential campaign) set out to completely gut the Glass-Steagall Act, and did so successfully,"
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2 month ago
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The cost of getting from A to B - "as if it's possible to be caught by surprise with 30 years notice"
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The cost of getting from A to B
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5 month ago
Linkorama : The bubble to end all bubbles? - Did I just get intellectually stimulated by Valleywag? I feel dirty in a thoughtful way
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns - WSJ.com - The past six days have shaken American capitalism.
nelson : Bear Stearns deal - Day by day account of the negotiation
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6 month ago
wearehugh : Calculated Risk: Auto Sales: Cliff Diving - "Maybe Chrysler will save the day ..." Honk. Snort. No need to be rude about it, my dear.
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nelson : SocGen's explanation - Detailed and understable explanation of Kerviel's mischief. Really quite simple: he just falsified half of a direction neutral position
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Belt-Tightening, but No Collapse - Overall growth in technology spending may fall from 7 percent last year to 4 percent or less this year, according to estimates by IDC, a research firm.
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8 month ago
adamrg : Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004 - Mises Institute
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Craig Barrett - A Talent Contest We're Losing - With Congress gridlocked on immigration, it's clear that the next Silicon Valley will not be in the United States.
deusx : Craig Barrett - A Talent Contest We're Losing - washingtonpost.com - "With Congress gridlocked on immigration, it's clear that the next Silicon Valley will not be in the United States."
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - Krugman: The bottom line is that policy makers left the financial industry free to innovate — and what it did was to innovate itself, and the rest of us, into a big, nasty mess.
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10 month ago
deusx : Jack Lessenberry Essays and Interviews: Essay: Michigan's Marketplace - 11/15/07 - "I think Michigan has done a fairly poor job of telling its story and selling itself to the nation and the world. Nor has the squabbling of the state’s dysfunctional politicians helped."
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12 month ago
nelson : Eve mineral economics - I used to make virtual money trading off some of these economic complications
joshua : eve mineral economics - fascinating
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13 month ago
nelson : Mortgage lending problems - Good explanation of the current mess of mortgage problems; too much financial engineering
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17 month ago
deusx : Real Estate Blog - The Death of Retail - "Wizzywig, a downtown Ann Arbor store specializing in Japanese pop-culture collectables is moving. They are relocating their store front to the industrial park by the Ann Arbor Airport where there warehouse is."
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deusx : 90% Crud: Detroit Roundup - "....JC Penney just announced that they'd be the anchor tenant in an $80m shopping center on Woodward, and builders in the region are reporting that Detroit's the best place to find work in the region these days."
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18 month ago
deusx : Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit - Yahoo! News - "With bidding stalled on some of the least desirable residences in Detroit's collapsing housing market, even the fast-talking auctioneer was feeling the stress."
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19 month ago
deusx : Thousands Lose Jobs As Michigan Unemployment Offices Close | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "In another devastating blow to the state's already fragile economy, the Unemployment Insurance Agency of the state of Michigan permanently shuttered its nine branch offices Monday, leaving more than 8,500 unemployment employees unemployed."
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19 month ago
deusx : BobGeiger.com: Kennedy to Republicans: "What is it about working men and women that you find so offensive?" - "But Massachusetts' Senior Senator -- who has seen his efforts to increase the minimum wage shot down in the Senate three times in the last two years -- really unloaded on his Republican colleagues for their utter contempt for working people in this count
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20 month ago
deusx : Universal Health Care Run by Psychotics - MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics - "So anyway, to recap, we already have universal health care, it's just run by psychos."
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Linkorama : Chinese Gold Farmers - Documentary of what happens to an IP-based economy made globally accessible.
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deusx : Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short - Los Angeles Times - "It's kind of like the old rancher saying: 'I'm going to size the herd to the amount of hay that I have"
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