Thursday, July 10, 2014

Our Financial Crisis Amnesia - Remember the S&L crisis? Nobody else does either. And we'll soon forget about 2008 too

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Our Financial Crisis Amnesia. By Alex J. Pollock Remember the S&L crisis? Nobody else does either. And we'll soon forget about 2008...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

China moves to free-market pricing for pharmaceuticals, after price controls led to quality problems & shortages

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China Scraps Price Caps on Low-Cost Drugs. By Laurie Burkitt Move Comes After Some Manufacturers Cut Corners on Production Wall Street Jou...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Daniel Schuman's Thomas Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century

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Thomas Piketty reviu Marx per al segle XXI. By Daniel Shuchman Wall Street Journal, Apr 21, 2014 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Views from FYR of Macedonia: Russia, the West, America

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Views from FYR of Macedonia: Russia, the West, America After sharing with some people an article on new software for US military cargo hel...
Friday, March 21, 2014

The Responsible Way to Rein in Super-Fast Trading - by Gary Cohn

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The Responsible Way to Rein in Super-Fast Trading. By Gary Cohn At Goldman Sachs, we would back these measures to limit the risk and instab...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Shedding Some Light on Shadow Banking - Don't let a vaguely sinister label for this useful financing prompt harmful regulations

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Shedding Some Light on Shadow Banking. By Tony James Don't let a vaguely sinister label for this useful financing prompt harmful regula...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Diversify Europe's Financial Grid. By Alberto Gallo

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Diversify Europe's Financial Grid. By Alberto Gallo Euro-zone lenders hold assets worth more than €30 trillion, three times the output ...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

How Dodd-Frank Doubles Down on 'Too Big to Fail'

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How Dodd-Frank Doubles Down on 'Too Big to Fail' Two major flaws mean that the act doesn't address problems that led to the fi...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Number of new antibacterial-drug approvals in the US

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Source: Drug Makers Tiptoe Back Into Antibiotic R&D. By Hester Plumridge As Superbugs Spread, Regulators Begin to Remove Roadblocks ...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

MRSA Infections, swine effluent lagoons, and farm consolidations

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Answering to some comments in a book review, 'In Meat We Trust,' by Maureen Ogle ( http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Views from Japan: Abe Visit to Yasukuni Shrine

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Views from Japan: Abe Visit to Yasukuni Shrine 1  Abe Visit to Controversial Japanese Shrine Draws Rare U.S. Criticism. By George Nishiyam...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Volcker Ambiguity - The triumph of political discretion over financial clarity

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The Volcker Ambiguity. WSJ Editorial   The triumph of political discretion over financial clarity. Wall Street Journal, Updated Dec. 11, 2...
Friday, December 6, 2013

New meat regulations could spark a trade war with Canada and Mexico and will raise costs

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This Label Will Raise the Cost of Your Steak. By Scott George and Randy Spronk New meat regulations could spark a trade war with Canada and...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Views from Japan on the air-defense zone recently claimed by Beijing

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Views from Japan on the air-defense zone recently claimed by Beijing 1  Excerpts from Japan Questions China's Policing of Defense Zone...

China Unveils IPO Guidelines - Regulator Says It Will Leave Judging Value, Risks to the Market

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China Unveils IPO Guidelines Ahead of Expected New-Offering Flood. By Amy Li Regulator Says It Will Leave Judging Value, Risks to the Market...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Tesla Meets the Auto Regulators - Remember Toyota's invisible defect and drivers that are inordinately prone to "pedal misapplication"

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Tesla Meets the Auto Regulators. By Holman W Jenkins   The feds have opened a safety investigation into the Model S fires. Elon Musk should...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

IMF: Modifications to the Current List of Financial Soundness Indicators

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Modifications to the Current List of Financial Soundness Indicators IMF, November 14, 2013 http://www.imf.org/external/ pp/longres.aspx?...