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The Baseline Scenario (Free subscription) | 13 minutes ago
This post is a slightly edited version of remarks prepared for delivery at Unwinding Public Interventions in the Financial Sector: Preconditions and Practical Considerations, IMF High-Level Conference, Thursday, December 3, 2009, Washington D.C. I participated in Session 2: Managing Fiscal Risks—Public Finance Aspects of Unwinding. The Problem 1) The underlying fiscal problems of the U.S. have...
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Economist's View (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Is better science education the answer to our "media disinformation" problem': War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation', by Lawrence M. Krauss, Commentary, Scientific American: ...The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some...
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CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | yesterday
CNN Money -- A growing number of experts are saying that oil prices will remain well below $100 a barrel as the economy remains fragile and efficiency measures kick in. "The world will never run out of oil," Deutsche Bank analysts wrote in a recent research note, echoing the old logic that the Stone Age didn't end because the world ran out of stone. "If the oil age does end, it likely...
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CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ken Green of The American Enterprise Institute sums up the fallout from Climategate : Most troubling are the suggestions that a tribe of incestuous climate scientists may have actively conspired to undermine the peer-review process, until now considered a determinant of what is worthy of scientific consideration, and what is not. Science is vitally important for the operation of a highly technological...
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Sufiy. (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
One of the issues we found at San Francisco Hard Assets Conference this November was lack of understanding even by Hard Assets industry analysts and letter writers about technological advance in Lithium-ion technology and speed to market in Electric cars mass market. It is very positive for our Investment Trend - first stage of the bull market was driven by only sector insiders and smart money, idea...
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TaylorTree (Free subscription) | yesterday
Key Figures Russell 3000 IWV Total Active Components 2961 1 Total New Listings this period 0 0 Total Inactive this period 1 0 # All-time Closing Highs 26 (0.88%) 0 (0.00%) # All-time Closing Lows 2 (0.07%) 0 (0.00%) # Higher Closes 2531 (85.48%) 1 (100.00%) # Lower Closes 385 (13.00%) 0 (0.00%) Total Gains/Losses $1110.74 (1.56%) $0.45 (0.70%) Average True Range (4.64%) (2.17%) * Results are cumulative...
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) customers who want to buy and play music and video from the iTunes store have to download it to their iPods or iPhones. The huge consumer electronics company is considering buying Lala. The small company allows its customers to store all of their multimedia content on the portion of the internet called the “cloud” [...]
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Economist's View (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jeff Sachs says that in order to make progress on curtailing greenhouse gases, we need to get politicians out of the way and involve "scientists, engineers and ordinary citizens ... in a true discussion about our common future, and especially...
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Controlled Greed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Better-than-expected jobs numbers and Helicopter Ben's reconfirmation hearings in Congress are the biggest market-related news items in the US this week. Here are five more items for your weekend reading. NipponKoa Insurance is a legacy holding for me, dating back...
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Sufiy. (Free subscription) | yesterday
BMW has its Vision and we have ours : with this kind of babies even in prototype stage Lithium-ion based technology will pick up quick and make a sizable share of our mobility fleet. What is available now only for High End applications will find its way into mass market faster than a lot of people think. Time is to move this Trend to the front pages. Look for the signs Powered by Lithium-ion Technology...
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Tech Trader Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) late today said they have “finalized and executed” a definitive “Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and License Agreement,” (which I really think we should start calling the SASSALA), following the letter of intent they announced in July. The companies said they “remain hopeful” that [...]
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
State Bank and Trust Company is taking over two failed and seized banks in Georgia, making this the #125 and #126 closed banks in America during the financial crisis. But this marks the 23rd bank bank failure in Georgia. The FDIC and the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance have just seized yet another bank [...]
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
It may be that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner needs to take a revisionist’s view of history to support attacks on the large bonuses Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is about to pay its top bankers. Geithner tells Bloomberg TV that among the US firms hit by the credit crisis “none of them would have survived a situation in which [...]
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CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | yesterday
NY Times -- Is saving $40,000 at the showroom enough to get drivers behind the wheel of an electric car? With a program in the works to add easy access to charging stations, Denmark is about to find out. The country imposes a punitive tax of about 200% on new cars, so a vehicle that would cost $20,000 in the United States costs $60,000 here. For a quarter-century, electric cars have been exempt from...
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CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | yesterday
DQNews -- First-time buyers and investors pushed Las Vegas-area home sales higher in October as the overall median sale price held at $130,000 for the fourth consecutive month. Foreclosure resales remained a major market force but continued to wane. In October, 66.8 percent of the Las Vegas-area houses and condos that resold were foreclosure resales, meaning those homes had been foreclosed on in the...
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