Coherently Confronting US Macro Challenges - Rob Parenteau
How fiscal policy stimulates while private sector net saves.

Stumbling and Mumbling: Economics as Feynman's onion
"The point of economics is, like Feynman’s physics, is merely to understand a little more of the world. If ultimate laws, or even policy proposals, drop out of this it would be a mere by-product."

CynicusEconomicus -- Economic Reality: The World Got Tougher
'Very few analysts and economists are looking at the underlying causes of the crisis, but are instead looking at the symptoms. I think that, in part, this is because the underlying reality is so difficult to accept, and in part because the problem is...

Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae :: More on the economics ... http://bit.ly/10Bnok

True/Slant -- Matt Taibbi: On giving Goldman a chance
'...I did contact Goldman and gave the bank every opportunity to respond to the factual issues in the article. I’m bringing this up because their decision not to comment on any of those questions was actually pretty interesting. ...here is the...

Fred Wilson: Freemium and Freeconomics
"the Internet allows an entrepreneur to enter a market with a free offering because the costs of doing so are not astronomical. And most entrepreneur who take this approach will maintain an attractive free offering of their basic service forever....

SILOs --more action needed? ~ Angry Bear
Tax advantaged "sale-leasebacks" with strapped-for-cash municipalities (SILOs, in the ever-present tax acronym set) came back to light when the Washington Metro train crashed a week ago. The cars were ones that were involved in the metro...

@digitalmaverick My father did lots of DIY & banking. I never paid any attention. As a *man* I love DIY & have economics degree.

Jamie Whyte on central banking
Jamie is a master at constructing a cogent argument, and he's on fine form here:Interest rates are simply prices for borrowing. As with all prices, they should be determined by supply and demand in a free market. When they are fixed by a wise man, or by...

Scientists to Congress: 'Sky is not falling'
"The finest meteorologists in the world cannot predict the weather two weeks in advance, let alone the climate for the rest of the century. Can Al Gore? Can John Holdren? We are flooded with claims that the evidence is clear, that the debate is...

The Death of Macho
Manly men have been running the world forever. But the Great Recession is changing all that, and it will alter the course of history.

@ubertechnophile Lol what a silly thing to do. You do not swap a n82 for a 5800. It's bad economics :P