Category Archives: Economics

Ray Dalio on Credit Cycles

Posted on 2017 March 21 by anewc2

 

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The Fed and black unemployment

Posted on 2016 August 31 by anewc2

I never quite trusted this guy, but I’m all in favor of people who can open their eyes and see what is around them. Fed’s Kashkari is ‘shocked’ that black unemployment isn’t better understood  

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The Wealth Effect: backwards causality 

Posted on 2016 April 25 by anewc2

http://ritholtz.com/2016/04/wealth-effect-is-a-bad-correlation-fantasy/

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Velocity of Money

Posted on 2016 April 18 by anewc2

http://ritholtz.com/2016/04/a-plodding-dollar-the-recent-decrease-in-the-velocity-of-money/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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How did Trump make his money?

Posted on 2016 March 24 by anewc2

an acquired company that doesn’t end in bankruptcy is money left on the table. … Romney and Trump … are in the same business of financial value extraction. http://jwmason.org/slackwire/brazil-in-drag-hyman-minsky-on-donald-trump/

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What History Teaches us about The Concentration of Wealth

Posted on 2016 March 8 by anewc2

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/03/history-concentration-of-wealth/

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Efficient Markets?

Posted on 2016 February 10 by anewc2

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-09/financial-markets-don-t-work-as-well-as-we-thought

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America’s Bank

Posted on 2016 January 29 by anewc2

History of how the Fed was founded. http://thereformedbroker.com/2016/01/29/book-review-americas-bank/

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Adam Smith’s false dichotomy

Posted on 2016 January 26 by anewc2

http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2013/07/adam-smiths-conceptual-sleight-of-hand.html?m=1

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The myth that welfare corrupts the poor

Posted on 2015 November 4 by anewc2

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/the-myth-of-welfares-corrupting-influence-on-the-poor.html?_r=0&referer=

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