| Banking on the State Support and vice versa 2 hours ago by Amol Agrawal Andrew Haldane once again. I have been covering his works in the crisis and all have been excellent reading ( here, here and here). In his recent paper cum speech co-written with Piergiorgio Alessandri he tells you how banks have changed over the years: Historically, the link between the state and t ... Mostly Economics - mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com · Rank: 30,213 · 83 references | | Greece Statistical system as bad as India’s 4 hours ago by Amol Agrawal Eurointelligence daily edition of 10 Nov 2009 has this interesting titbit: EU finance ministers outraged about Greece FT Deutschland has an article about the sheer sense of outrage felt, and expressed, by EU finance ministers about the situation in Greece, where the new government suddenly revised u ... Mostly Economics - mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com · Rank: 30,213 · 83 references | | Benefits of GST for Indian economy 4 hours ago by Amol Agrawal I had posted a while back on India’s goods and service tax. In that post I had pointed to a primer and a speech from Dr Kelkar. In that speech Dr Kelkar had estimated the gains of GST for Indian economy based on similar gains made in Canada. In his recent speech (not recent actually, given in Octobe ... Mostly Economics - mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com · Rank: 30,213 · 83 references | | Economist set to launch mobile app 6 hours ago by Nigel Barlow More news of the media concentrating more on the mobile platform. Paid Content reports that Economist.com is about to launch a paid-for iPhone app to accompany its global business-school league-table data and its annual spin-off print magazine Which MBA?. and adds that MBA data is free but a search ... Thoughts of Nigel - thoughtsofnigel.blogspot.com · Rank: 37,090 · 32 references | | “Obamacare’s nasty surprise” 9 hours ago by joeytorres An economist looks at the health care bill. Read it ( here). In fact, Dr. John R. Lott made a similar point in his discussion last week. I'll Lay Down My Glasses - laydownglasses.com · Rank: 132,183 | | Economist’s Solutions- Tim 11 hours ago by theacidic4 The only way to lower the many damages acid rain does to our economy is to reduce the huge amount of energy we are using. As said before, Canada spends $285 each year to repair structures damaged by acid rain. If we could decrease the amount of fossil fuels we burn, that amount spent on restoring wo ... The Daily Acid - theacidic4.wordpress.com | | dick armey on larry summers 13 hours ago by nemov I caught this quote over at Greg Mankiw's site. Generally I've always liked Dick Armey, but his comment about economist Larry Summers is just partisan hyperbole. "I don't consider Larry Summers a serious economist," Armey said. "You can get a Ph.D. from Harvard without ever having seriously consider ... the daily plunge - dailyplunge.com · Rank: 137,168 · 5 references | | A look at the leverage cycle 17 hours ago by drm If you give people money to buy things, they’ll buy more than if they are using their own money. The less skin in the game, the more risk they will take. That’s the essence of what Yale economist John Geanakoplos calls “leverage cycle” theory. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week details ... ViralHousingFix - viralhousingfix.com · Rank: 32,678 · 23 references | | Trendwatching in large quantities of social content 20 hours ago by Jay Krall Photo courtesy of Tom Purves via Flickr Managing huge quantities of data has become one of the central challenges of science today, according to two articles in the New York Times and the Economist recently. For example, the International Astronomical Union met in August and discussed astronomy’s “t ... Cision Blog - blog.us.cision.com · Rank: 184,140 · 7 references | | Cooked, or at least toasted, books on productivity 20 hours ago by lambert Times: A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the country’s economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on issues like trade, wages and job creation. The shortcomings of the data-gathering system came ... Corrente - correntewire.com · Rank: 3,484 · 726 references | |