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China Innovates: A New Way to Lie with Numbers
The Wall Street Journal has just run an article about the latest data manipulation coming out of China. China is experiencing strong currency outflows. This is a combination of “hot money” from outside China, which came into the country to … Continue reading
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Turn Away Now [1]
I just watched the most recent Republican debate and, contrary to the fairly neutral coverage that it has received, I think that Trump got mauled. It is a preview of what is going to happen if he gets into the … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, General Culture, Politics
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Young Turkeys Do Vote for Thanksgiving
The Economist has recently run a special report on the young, concluding that the roughly 1.8 billion people in the world between the ages of 15 to 30 are an “oppressed minority.” The report identified a number of policies that … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs, General Culture, Policy, Politics
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Greetings From The Road
I am currently on vacation, so this will be a brief post, mostly with some recommended reading/listening. Milo Yiannopoulos I first encountered this guy when I read “Sexbots: Why Women Should Panic,” which is one of the most hilariously incendiary … Continue reading
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The Fed Decision
After moving house and taking a two-week break in Canada and New England, there is a lot of catching up to do. Let’s start with today’s post, the length of which I apologize for in advance. The Fed Decision Last … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Finance, General Culture, Policy, Politics
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The China Syndrome
I am sure that you have all been watching the meltdown in the Chinese stock markets. I posted a blog (in the China Ad Nauseam section) on May 6 about the Chinese stock market, finishing up with the statement that … Continue reading
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Central Bankers: Finally Getting the Joke?
There are some nascent signs that the world’s central bankers are finally beginning to understand – or at least publicly acknowledge – that their policies are, for the third time already in this new century, creating asset bubbles that have … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, General Culture, Policy, Politics
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Après Ski (Part 2)
Even a Blind Pig Prepare yourselves for a wave of self-congratulations from Democrats on Obamacare. Politicians are experts at taking underserved credit. Bill Clinton, for example, still enjoys an aura of economic wisdom because he happened to preside over the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, General Culture, Policy
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Greece (Again), American Sniper and Debt
Greece: Lots of Losers and a Few Winners I have just finished reading an article that claims that some married women in Greece are turning to prostitution to make ends meet. Turned away from the legal brothels, they are becoming … Continue reading
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Some Culture and History for the New Year
This is a quick roundup of some of the things that I have been watching or reading lately. Unbroken This is a great story made into a very mediocre movie by the female half of the Brangelinas. The story is … Continue reading
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