Friday, December 31, 2010

Electronic paper has a bright future

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The Chinese are set to overtake both the Kindle and Nook (and Sony's Reader) with a new reflected-light colour e-book reader, according ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Income inequality in China and USA, and the international battle for resources

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The Gini Coefficient measures personal income inequality (the nearer to 1.0, the nearer to maximum inequality). This January 2010 study by t...

Public pensions conundrum

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Mike Shedlock comments on Illinois' budget problems and the new Governor's notion of borrowing billions more to keep the ship afloat...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Doubts growing over UK economy

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CMA Datavision reports concerns by the market in credit default swaps about the UK's ability to service its debts, as the following show...
Monday, December 27, 2010

How America can climb out of the hole: the first step is seeing the light

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Bruce Bartlett in the Fiscal Times ( htp: Michael Panzner ) submits a first-class, balanced essay on how the mess can be straightened out. ...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

Long term care, insurance & "Death Panels": fact and fiction

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US insurers MetLife ( MET ) and John Hancock ( HPI ) are backing out of the long care insurance market, according to an article by Anna K. P...
Friday, December 24, 2010

On reading Adam Fergusson's "When Money Dies", an account of the German hyperinflation of 1923: Part 1

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I am obliged to " Jesse " for publishing via Scribd the text of this book, which first appeared in 1975 and has just been reprinte...