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Friday, November 21, 2014

RT — New Tax Law to Reverse Capital Outflows, Bring Billions to Russian Treasury

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The new law requiring that all foreign dealings now be reported, aims to prevent major capital outflow (estimated at $200 billion in 2014)…...
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Eric Schliesser — The Technocratic Conception of Politics (The Economists and Rawls redux)

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By a 'technocratic conception of politics,' ( recall ) I mean to capture the following three features of an enduringimage of politi...

Yves Smith — Masaccio: Piketty Shreds Marginal Productivity as Neoclassical Justification for Supersized Pay

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Yves here. One of the main agendas of neoclassical economics is to give Panglossian defenses of the current order a veneer of intellectual ...

Jim Rogers is always good for a laugh. Ha! Ha!

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Guys like Jim Rogers are geniuses because they understand marketing. They keep repeating their message over and over and over again, even th...

Same Reason Our Schools Are Failing Our Students? Mismanaging Planet Kindergarten.

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Eventually, knowing"WHY" to work/fight/learn ... (motivation) ...  always  trum...

Ed Gillespie: "An Obamacare Do-Over" (or "We DON'T Need Death Panels")

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Big news out of the right today on a potential GOP alternative to the ACA from Ed Gillespie (worked in Bush II Admin) who recently ran in V...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

"Neo-con" tweets...

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Interesting tweets from "Mr. Neo-con" himself William Kristol; I guess the right "neo-cons" are not "Wall Street...
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Elena Holodny — The World Economy Is Slowing

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Manufacturers around the world have confirmed that economic activity is slowing down everywhere. Business Insider The World Economy Is Slo...
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Colbert report has some fun with libertarians..

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Colbert report does a reverse JFK; i.e. "not because it is hard but because it is easy!" Good to see some mainstream push-back ...

Colin Campbell — Jeb Bush Is Reportedly Making 'Secret Visits' To Wall Street To Prepare For A 2016 Campaign

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Looking like Jeb's in if he wants to be. If he runs, Bush, the son of former President George H.W. Bush and the brother of former Pr...

David Ellerman — Talk on property theory at UMKC, Nov. 2014

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These are the slides, with some minor additions and editing, for a talk On Property Theory given at the University of Missouri at Kansas Ci...
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Kimball Corson — The Core Problem Of The World Economy And With Capitalism Is Income Distribution

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The core problem worldwide is productive capacity has largely out run the capacity of consumers to buy the goods and services capable of be...
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Andrew Lainton — Is Piketty the New Malhus?

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Lets generalise Malthus’s argument, to look not just at land rent but all quasi rents on assets which though scarcity tend to return yield ...

IDEA — Steve Keen in Beijing - Beijing Normal University, November 24-29

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1) Lecture for Faculty & Graduate Students in BNU: Dragging economics into the 20th century with basic system dynamics for economics. ...

Peter Cooper — It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

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There is really only one other employer capable of stepping up to the plate when the private sector is in the doldrums: the government. And...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Jeremy Grantham — The Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Revolution (From Golden Goose to Cooked Goose)

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Good summary of the basics of energy economics, with shout-outs to Hyman Minsky and Kenneth Boulding, and high praise for Jamie Galbraith. ...
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Learn how to trade commodities from a pro

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Former Phibro commodity trader, Andy Hecht, to teach a commodity trading course on Dec 6. Watch this video for details.

Akhilesh Pillalamarri — India Needs to Join Asia's Emerging 'Chinese Order'

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A new Asian order is emerging and South Asia — including India — needs to be a part of it. In the aftermath of the G20 and Asia-Pacific ...

Jordan Michael Smith — Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.

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The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon. More on the deep state. Glennon’s critiq...
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Fort Russ — Kerry to Lavrov: "Don't pay attention to Obama"

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"I brought attention to the list of threats that President Obama had announced in his speech at the UN General Assembly," - said ...

Branko Milanovic — On Mark Thoma: marginalism, Marx etc

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Mark Thoma has written a very nice blog on how Piketty’s work is transforming economics by bringing it closer too it political economy roo...

George Monbiot — The Insatiable God

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Sacrificing all to the insatiable god of capital for the next spurt of growth. George Monbiot The Insatiable God h/t Eric Ashelman

Yves Smith — Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SWIFT and Russia (But were afraid to ask!)

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Yves makes Russia Insider (published by a group of Western ex-pats living in Russia) Whether the Russians can launch a robust enough sys...

Yves Smith — Wisconsin as a Frontier of School Privatization: Will Anyone Notice the Looting?

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I never dreamed that a class I took in college, The Politics of Popular Education, which covered the nineteenth century in France and Engla...

Russia Insider — VIDEO: Ukrainian Nazi Torturers Brand Swastikas on Prisoners' Buttocks

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You couldn't make this stuff up ...   These Ukrainian nutcases are so out of control - where is the mainstream media on this?? This...
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Lord Keynes — My Posts on the Natural Rate of Interest

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Reference. Social Democracy For The 21St Century: A Post Keynesian Perspective My Posts on the Natural Rate of Interest Lord Keynes
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Bloomberg — Bank of China Named Sydney Yuan Clearing Bank, Signs ASX Accord

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Bank of China Ltd. has been named as the official clearing bank for the yuan in Australia and agreed to boost cooperation with ASX Ltd.,...

RT — Russia’s biggest bank launches financing in Chinese yuan

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Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, will be the first bank in the country to start issuing credit guarantees denominated in Chinese yuan. Th...

Mark Thoma — When Piketty Argued for Income Redistribution, He Changed Economics

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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is beginning to receive book of the year awards, but has it changed anything within ec...

David Edwards — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence: We’re ‘ennobling’ poor people by cutting off food stamps

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This is the current GOP talking point, used by Joni Edwards in her successful bid for Tom Harkin's vacated senate seat from Iowa and S...
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