What We Should Fear

07/16/13, via New Yorker (blog)

There's the fiscal cliff, the continued European economic crisis, the perpetual tensions in the Middle East. But what about the things that may happen in twenty, fifty, or a hundred years? The premise, as the science Some are manifest, like the

Wells Fargo Securities Economics Group: A Decision Maker's View of Fiscal ...

07/16/13, via Area Development Online

Wells Fargo Economics Group. The paper was presented at the Global Interdependence Center's Conference: The Global Financial Crisis : Lessons from Japan, Session II: “How to Manage the Government Debt Hangover” in Tokyo, Japan on Dec. 3, 2012.

A New Book From the Maureen Dowd of Astrologers: Jessica Murray

07/16/13, via Huffington Post (blog)

In these essays she explores every major political, financial, and environmental crisis of the last few years (global warming, the oil spill in the Gulf, the economic crash, WikiLeaks, the Occupy movement, the Tea Party, Facebook, Robert Murdoch and

 

2013: a critical year for the Australian environment

07/16/13, via ABC Local

LOOKING FORWARD I see two big challenges for our environment in 2013. We face rapidly increasing extinction rates among Australian species, and the truly existential threat to our world famous Great Barrier Reef. Simultaneously Tim Flannery wrote

Don't Bet on It

07/16/13, via The Wilson Quarterly

That is what makes The Signal and the Noise, in which he surveys methods of prediction in everything from Texas hold 'em to global climate change, such a useful and important book. Throughout human history, people have ascribed special and sometimes

David Warsh: No fiscal team of allies; celebrating Buchanan

07/15/13, via The Providence Journal (blog)

At the University of Virginia, he founded, with Gordon Tullock, a skeptic's view of public finance known as public choice (for a time they called their angle of vision "non-market economics"). A conservative Camelot had assembled in Charlottesville

The Progressive Global Sharing Economy

07/14/13, via Canada Free Press

I call this stealing my economic freedom and enslaving me to individuals I don't even know, care to know, and whose lifestyles, religion, and ideologies I do not approve of, nor am I willing to share my hard work with willingly. Harping on climate

Liberal writer Li Chengpeng was punched and threatened with a knife at his ...

07/14/13, via South China Morning Post (blog)

Writer Li Chengpeng returned to his hometown Chengdu Saturday to sign copies of his new book, "The Whole World Knows", a collection of essays, only to be told beforehand by domestic security police that he would not be allowed to address the crowd

 

His Word Is Not a Bond

07/12/13, via Wall Street Journal

On Wednesday we refuted Nancy Pelosi's "14th Amendment solution" to the crisis that would result if Congress fails to raise the statutory limit on public debt. In brief, Pelosi's argument is that the 14th Amendment's clause providing that "the validity

The Financial Crisis: Seven Lessons to Incorporate into Client Relationships

12/26/12, via CFA Institute Enterprising Investor (blog)

The global financial crisis of 2008–2009 exacted a hefty toll on all those who suffered through it: from devastating investment losses to a pervasive loss of trust. The Great Recession, as it is now known, forced many financial advisers to reevaluate