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A Bull Market Requires a Healthy Consumer Underneath |
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Written by Michael Pento
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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A year ago this week the stock market hit its nefarious 666 level on the S&P 500. Since that historic day, we have enjoyed a 68% appreciation in equities from their depressionary low. Not only has the bounce caused a chorus of perma-bulls to claim the worst of the recession is behind us, but also to declare that the bull market is here to stay.
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"Rawls on Marx; December 1973" |
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Written by Mark Thoma
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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Daniel Little shares his notes:
Rawls on Marx; December 1973, by Daniel Little: John Rawls taught a course on the history of political philosophy throughout much of his career at Harvard University. The course contained his description and analysis of the most important figures in modern political philosophy, including Mill, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Marx.
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Public Pension Funds Doubling Up to Catch Up? |
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Written by Leo Kolivakis
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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Mary Williams Marsh of the NYT reports that Public Pension Funds Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns:
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US residential property – a good buy? |
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Written by Prieur du Plessis
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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The chart below, the Affordability Index of US residential property, comes courtesy of the New Observations on Real Estate, Mortgages & Life blog. The Index is computed by factoring in home prices, mortgage rates and income.
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Unlocking the Jobs Dilemma |
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Written by John Browne
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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Productive, private-sector jobs – the lifeblood of a sound economy – are under assault by politicians in the United States and Western Europe, who have unwittingly taken a number of steps that make future job losses a foregone conclusion.
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Excessive Trading: An Investor’s Worst Enemy |
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Written by Eric Roseman
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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The more you trade, the less you earn. The less you trade, the more you earn.
That's the premise behind passive investing or indexing whereby more than 85% of active money-managers have failed to beat the S&P 500 Index over the last 20 years – mainly due to excessive trading and high expenses associated with mutual funds.
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9 women can't have a baby in a month |
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Written by Cam Hui
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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I have written about the Peak Oil thesis before, Gregor Macdonald over at his site has a new post entitled The Myth of Energy Breakthroughs that gives a great perspective on that viewpoint [emphasis mine]:
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Nearly Every Human Who Has Ever Lived Denied Fundamental Human Right |
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Written by Warren Meyer
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
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