My Two Cents

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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...

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

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

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,...