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  • Forget the stock market. (Okay, that's hard to do.) But Paul Krugman at the New York Times has a truly scary chart. It's rising real rates–the…

  • Here's the headline from the Washington post:…

  • The pressure for falling prices is gathering momentum. The producer price index plunged by a record 2.8% in October. That follows on an 0.4% drop…

  • Nov 16, 2008

    Gold

    Another pearl of wisdom from Warren Buffett, this one courtesy of the economists at the Angry Bear blog:…

  • Nov 10, 2008

    Warren Buffett

    I'm doing some research, reading Warren Buffet's 2005 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. I cam across the delicious paragraph:…

  • Nov 4, 2008

    Voted

    I voted. The line was long, and it seemed that everyone was having a good time. I certainly was enjoying myself. And then I got a cup of coffee.

  • That's the name of a public policy series sponsiored by Minnesota Public Radio's alternative music service and the Citizens League. At a recent …

  • The Iowa electronic futures market gives Obama a 91% chance of winning the presidency tomorrow. Intrade is at 90.5%….

  • Brad DeLong, economist at the University of California, Berkeley and former assistant U.S. Treasury secretary during the Clinton Administration,…

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