In Big Picture - Posted 1 week ago

This article originally appeared in a newsletter: The Objectivist published in 1966 and was reprinted in Ayn Rand s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal ...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 1 week ago

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wasn t the only one whose credibility took a hit following the dramatic change in Treasury s Troubled Asset ...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 week ago

Did Low Gasoline Prices Act Like Low Interest Rates in Causing this Crisis?The auto industry bailout looks like its going through. That s nice for a...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 week ago

Over at Forbes.com, former WSJ OpEd page editor but don t hold that against him Tunku Varadarajan writes a terribly amusing recap of the glo...

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In Economist's View - Posted 1 week ago

In a recent interview with CNN, President-elect Obama says: [The] top priority may ... be continuing to stabilize the financial system. We don't know ...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 week ago

The Obama team is keeping its cards close to the vest. That s probably a good way to manage expectations, good politics and it may even be good poli...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 week ago

Adolph Hitler and the gang talk about the bursting of the housing bubble and of the Fuhrer s failed flip of his McMansionHat tip: The Mess That Gree...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 week ago

Not quite a full linkfest, but some very intriguing articles:Politics & Elections Obama Grabs Headlines - Newspaper front pages from around the glo...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 2 weeks ago

As things ahem unwind, I find myself becoming more and more sympathetic to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as others are becomi...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 2 weeks ago

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will have an opportunity to dramatically remake the Federal Reserve starting in his first year in office with three ...

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