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  • Earlier this afternoon, I posted a figure on the "getting personal" blog that investirs had withdrawn almost $68 billion from stock mutual funds,…

  • Ross Levin is one of the nation's premier financial planners. He's based in Edina, Minnesota. Here's a sober bit of number-crunching:…

  • Read and watch what three Nobel laureates in economics–Robert C. Merton, Robert Solow and Paul Samuelson–are doing with their money in light of…

  • "Prosperity is just around the corner," President Herbert Hoover infamously remarked in 1930. The magnitude of Hoover's wrong forecast has gone…

  • Oct 27, 2008

    The election

    The Iowa futures market now has Obama with an 87% chance of winning in November. The bettors at Intrade give Obama the same odds (even though there…

  • Harvard University economist Greg Mankiw has a good column of the origins of the Great Depression in today's New York Times….

  • …with good reason. Among the best columnists in the business, Nocera believes the banks aren't going to make new loan with the money they are…

  • Economist Dani Rodrik, one of the country's leading international and development economists, thinks so. After a day like today it's a chilling…

  • Oct 25, 2008

    Barton Biggs

    Peter Coy of Business Week has a good story on surviving the recession in the magazine's latest issue. He starts off with an anecdote from Barton…

  • Oct 22, 2008

    Read it–and weep

    These numbers from Alicia Munnell, economist at Boston College, are unbelievable….

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