Category Archives: Economics

Falling Into the Economic Chasm – NYTimes.com

Posted on October 25, 2010 by bassui

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/opinion/25krugman.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB Is there any hope for a better outcome? Maybe, just maybe, voters will have second thoughts about handing power back to the people who got us into this mess, and a weaker-than-expected Republican showing at the polls will give … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 8, 2008 by bassui

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100803482.html NEW YORK — In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock … Continue reading →

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2008 March 12 archive at eternallycool.net

Posted on March 12, 2008 by bassui

http://eternallycool.net/?m=20080312 Here at the eCool Compound, we channel some of our enthusiasm about saving the world into micro-credit programs like Kiva, and so it is with great enthusiasm that we tell our faithful readers about Benetton’s 20087 global campaign in … Continue reading →

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Samuelson: Lollipop Economics 101 – Newsweek

Posted on January 13, 2008 by bassui

http://www.newsweek.com/id/91687 You have no doubt heard the well-worn dictum of Karl Von Clausewitz, the great Prussian military strategist, that war is the extension of politics by other means. Well, the same is true of economic policy. As often as not, … Continue reading →

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