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2011-12-13T13:32:26Z

the article describes analysis of the unit's mfg'ing cost being ~ $2/unit more than its selling price. It sells for $199, so the loss (if the analysis is accurate with respect to reality) amounts to 1%.  Seems to me ...
2011-12-13T13:33:39Z

  • Real GDP growth for 3Q2011 was 2.0% annualized (revised down from 2.3%).
     
    Just to give you some perpective on this rate ----  I've taken the real GDP growth from 1990 through 2006.... the last year before the shit began to hit the fan:
    • The annual compound rate of
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2011-12-13T13:33:49Z

Drugs

What in fact is a 'drug'?


The dictionary definition (Oxford): a [medicine or other] substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise ...

2011-12-13T13:37:35Z
The linked article describes the failures of the Fed (by the NYFed) to anticipate the economic problem that was developing and which resulted in the spectacular fall in the economy which nearly brought down the entire global house of cards....
2011-12-13T13:37:52Z
.... I wish I had.  She does a great job chastizing...
2011-12-13T13:40:48Z

This isn't a political comment.

 

I am of course opposed to every aspect of Cain's stated policies that I've become aware of if he were to become president of the U.S.

 

BUT,  the fact that he's had an or more than one affair (short or long term), has done some (or a lot of) grab-ass, or used his power to ...

2011-12-13T13:41:59Z

 I read up on the WTO rules with respect exchange rates a few years ago finding that China's following all the WTO rules since the rules don't require nations to adjust exchange rates to some "standard" or other rule. 

 

Here's a very short article summarizing the history of WTO with respect to exhange rate rules just in ...

2011-12-13T13:42:34Z

I have previously postulated that IF all voters were to take classes to realistically appraise real economic consequence of voting choices --- candidates for federal office-holders, congressional bills, etc., that they would overwhelming vote in their own best interests, and that this would forever tilt the political and economic ...

2011-12-13T13:50:30Z

I was curious about GDP growth and Federal Spending when broken down by Presidential party from Eisenhower's administration through Bush's... a period of 56 years since WWII.  Based on my years of hearing that the GOP was a better fiscal steward of federal policy toward GDP growth and lower spending, I was under the strong ...

2011-12-17T15:04:55Z

If you're mildly interested in structural v  cyclical unemployment the following link provides insights and intriguing questions being posed by an objective economist  --- objective = seeking to understand the differences in data (metrics) related to the Beveridge Curve (Beveridge Curve is the relationship of posted job ...

2011-12-17T15:10:49Z

Discard prior version just sent --- a  signficant typo needed to be corrected.  This version corrected the typo.


Obama's current poll results on the Direction of Country question show 3/4's of voting age adults believe its headed in the "Wrong Direction".  This result is the same for any & all polls taken recently (...

2011-12-17T15:12:15Z

Part of the cascading effects of global warming... as warming increases, factors created by warming cause more positive feed-back... in this case releases of more methane from sea-bed sources.  Methane has ~20x the negative impact of CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

 

This is an example of something that can't be quickly ...

2011-12-17T15:12:47Z

Ths short article puts SEC's role in perspective with our capitalist system.... well worth the 5 minute read.  It provides insight related to SEC's enforcement actions as they relate to capital investors' interests in our society. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-judson/sec-banks_b_1153479.html