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1.
Are Rare Earth Elements Actually Rare?
When Apple's new iPhone debuts later this month, it will be the latest addition to a long list of electronic devices -- ranging from wind turbines to flat-screen TVs -- ...
China, Mountain Pass, CHARLES HOMANS, United States, Canada, All keywords...
foreignpolicy.com
2 days ago
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A virtual counter-revolution : The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it
THE first internet boom, a decade and a half ago, resembled a religious movement. Omnipresent cyber-gurus, often framed by colourful PowerPoint presentations reminiscent of stained glass, prophesied a digital paradise ...
Google, America, Professor, Apple, Kevin Werbach, All keywords...
economist.com
2 days ago
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Economy Avoids Recession Relapse as Data Can't Get Much Worse
The U.S. economy is so bad that the chance of avoiding a double dip back into recession may actually be pretty good. The sectors of the economy that traditionally drive ...
Ben S, United States, Ben S. Bernanke, US Federal Reserve, Chairman, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
3 days ago
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Swedish Move Highlights Uneven Europe Recovery
FRANKFURT — The Swedish central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday to help head off inflation as the country’s economy surges, highlighting the divergence of growth in Europe. The ...
European Central Bank, Greece, Spain, Europe, Portugal, All keywords...
nytimes.com
4 days ago
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How Baby Fever Spreads Through Offices
(Francesco Tonelli for The New York Times) Speaking of babies, a new study out of Sweden finds that women workers are more likely to have babies if their co-workers recently ...
Sweden, The New York Times, The New York Times, Francesco Tonelli, USD, All keywords...
economix.blogs.nytimes.com
4 days ago
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Reinhart's Seven More Years of High Unemployment Hit Fed Today
Reinhart and his wife Carmen Reinhart presented a paper at the symposium that finds the U.S., Germany and other advanced economies may face a decade of slow growth and high ...
Carmen Reinhart, United States, Ben S, International Monetary Fund, Economist, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
1 week ago
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Radical Britain : Britain has embarked on a great gamble. Sooner or later, many other rich-world countries will have to take it too
OF ALL the politicians elected to high office in the West in the past few years, David Cameron seemed the least revolutionary. There was certainly none of the thrill of ...
David Cameron, Barack Obama, Britain, Europe, National Health Service, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
8.
Counting people: Leviathan's spyglass
There are two reasons for the change. The first is that computerisation allows statisticians to interrogate databases in a way that was not possible when information was stored on cards ...
Finland, Britain, David, USD, King, All keywords...
economist.com
1 month ago
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What 19s this 1cTinkerbell 1d stuff all about?
It occurred to me that perhaps much of what�I have been discussing recently is a bit too esoteric for normal people who don’t live and breathe Woodfordian monetary theory.� So ...
Federal Government, Scott Sumner, Nick Rowe, USD, Bank, All keywords...
themoneyillusion.com
2 months ago
10.
A Primer on Austrian Economics
There are some basic questions that most beginners ask when first delving into Austrian theory. What is Austrian economics? Who are these Austrian economists? Why is Austrian economics relevant in ...
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, Friedrich Hayek, Author, Austrian School, All keywords...
mises.org
3 months ago
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Monetary policy: The Achilles Heel of the right
I’ve argued that monetary policy is the fatal flaw of the right.� In 1929 the US had an outstandingly efficient model.� Banks were conservatively managed (although branching laws meant there ...
Ron Paul, Latvia, Argentina, Chile, Mark Washenberger, All keywords...
themoneyillusion.com
3 months ago
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Don 19t misread the trade implications of the euro crisis for China
How much does the Greek crisis matter for China?� There are, as far as I see, broadly two schools of thought.� One school says that the Greek crisis is largely ...
China, United States, Europe, Martin Wolf, Germany, All keywords...
mpettis.com
3 months ago
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Who Spends More on Social Welfare: the United States or Sweden?
Ask anyone. Who spends more on social welfare: the U.S. or Sweden and other Nordic countries? Nearly everybody will say Sweden. But the answer, at least as of the mid-2000s, ...
United States, Nordic countries, Sweden, Finland, America, All keywords...
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com
3 months ago
14.
Hedge funds bet big on the falling euro
Hedge funds that made millions from the implosion of America's subprime market are betting on a similarly dramatic collapse of the euro. Hedge funds, including Hayman Advisers and Matrix Group, ...
European Union, Matrix Group, America, International Monetary Fund, Spain, All keywords...
telegraph.co.uk
3 months ago
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The strong euro, part 2.
A commenter named Mark Sadowski sent me this very useful info: Another piece of the puzzle is core eurozone bond yields. If one looks at 10-year bond yields for Austria, ...
Mark Sadowski, United States, Bank, US Federal Reserve, Oil, All keywords...
themoneyillusion.com
3 months ago
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