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Commentary / austerity, fiscal cliff, government spending, Obama, Republicans /

Civil War – The Rise of The South

October 15, 2013

I mean seriously. The details of a deal being brokered in the Senate to end both the debt ceiling hostage taking and the government shut down by the Republicans are, to say the least, pitiful. The “deal” would re-open the government until January 15th next year, and would lift the debt ceiling until next February. […]

Economics / Case-Shiller Index, economic theory, Fama, Shiller /

The Fama Quasi-Nobel: Posthumous Award for EMH?

October 14, 2013

They’re kidding, right? Nope. They mean it. What’s really weird is that he splits the award with Robert Shiller and some guy called Hansen who is an econometrician and thus unintelligible and largely irrelevant to sensible discussion of the economy. Back to Fama and Shiller: there are a few ways to deal with this. Take […]

Commentary /

The End Is Nigh Redux

October 11, 2013

Recently I wrote that the end is nigh for Reaganism. This week’s absurd shenanigans in Washington bolster that position. This is why: I see the crisis of 2007/2008 as being the logical product of three to four decades of sustained “Reaganism”. That is a mixture of deregulatory, free market style economics, pro-business positions on just about […]

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