(new) Money, Financials, and Economics

Stiglitz at the NY Times: Greece, the sacrificial lamb. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 26, 2015, 03:51:00 PM EDT

greece should tell them to ftfo - (boxley) - July 27, 2015, 10:25:03 AM EDT

Dean Baker on encouraging investment in employees. - (Another Scott) - July 25, 2015, 09:57:50 AM EDT

Richard Mayhew on insurance pricing constraints under Obamacare. - (Another Scott) - (1) - July 21, 2015, 10:13:54 AM EDT

industry average appears to be about 32% this year -NT - (boxley) - July 21, 2015, 12:25:59 PM EDT

peter, how many people need to let in a slum flat - (boxley) - July 9, 2015, 01:06:20 AM EDT

china facing a 1929 like stock crash - (boxley) - (3) - July 8, 2015, 04:46:06 PM EDT

Re: china facing a 1929 like stock crash - (Another Scott) - (2) - July 8, 2015, 05:17:04 PM EDT

marginal farmers shouldnt be in the market, that was the problem in 1929 as well - (boxley) - July 8, 2015, 07:21:17 PM EDT

Be interesting to see if they blame the real cause. - (mmoffitt) - July 9, 2015, 08:30:42 AM EDT

"Confessions of An Economic Hit Man" - (lincoln) - (1) - July 7, 2015, 01:53:27 PM EDT

Sounds almost too good - (drook) - July 7, 2015, 02:17:16 PM EDT

another explaination for the greece no vote - (boxley) - (10) - July 6, 2015, 10:56:57 PM EDT

Outstanding! Full Agreement. -NT - (mmoffitt) - July 7, 2015, 10:02:48 AM EDT

Are both sides right? - (drook) - (8) - July 7, 2015, 10:26:39 AM EDT

They lied. - (pwhysall) - (7) - July 7, 2015, 10:33:38 AM EDT

But you knew it - (crazy) - (3) - July 7, 2015, 10:45:37 AM EDT

Not us, ackshully. - (pwhysall) - (2) - July 7, 2015, 10:53:19 AM EDT

So basically it was a NINJA loan - (drook) - (1) - July 7, 2015, 11:13:15 AM EDT

Sort of and sort of. -NT - (pwhysall) - July 7, 2015, 11:19:16 AM EDT

Supposedly Goldman Sachs was Greece's banker... - (Another Scott) - (2) - July 7, 2015, 01:24:58 PM EDT

Doesn't matter what the troika does. - (pwhysall) - July 7, 2015, 02:04:53 PM EDT

With a banker like Goldman, they were doomed from the start. -NT - (mmoffitt) - July 7, 2015, 02:20:28 PM EDT

Chomsky's POV on Greece: class warfare. - (Ashton) - (3) - July 6, 2015, 06:29:46 AM EDT

Bookmarked. Thanks! And Read. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - July 6, 2015, 02:15:19 PM EDT

Share that long-shot hope as well, of course. - (Ashton) - (1) - July 6, 2015, 09:51:45 PM EDT

Read box's link. There (may)be a spectre haunting the world. -NT - (mmoffitt) - July 7, 2015, 10:03:49 AM EDT

IMF report says Greece needs more money, debt relief, and a 20 yr moratorium on payments. - (Another Scott) - (5) - July 3, 2015, 04:21:23 PM EDT

So the IMF is speaking with forked tongue - (scoenye) - (4) - July 3, 2015, 08:36:12 PM EDT

EU countries tried to delay release of the IMF report. - (Another Scott) - (3) - July 4, 2015, 01:38:43 AM EDT

so what happens when we (usa) get to 185% debt to income ratio in 15 years? -NT - (boxley) - (2) - July 4, 2015, 11:48:53 AM EDT

Devalue the dollar and move on -NT - (drook) - July 4, 2015, 01:51:23 PM EDT

Scary numbers aren't scary in context - (Another Scott) - July 4, 2015, 03:53:46 PM EDT

Greece: It's the politics, stupid! - (Another Scott) - (41) - June 28, 2015, 01:20:49 PM EDT

Nah! The Greek governmaent was elected to stiff the rest of EU. - (a6l6e6x) - (29) - June 28, 2015, 04:52:35 PM EDT

We'll see. - (Another Scott) - (28) - June 28, 2015, 05:46:38 PM EDT

They will have a depression now. - (a6l6e6x) - (5) - June 28, 2015, 09:36:02 PM EDT

25+% unemployment for 3+ years isn't already a depression? - (Another Scott) - (4) - June 28, 2015, 10:35:35 PM EDT

is that american unemployment measure or really counting all the people out of work? -NT - (boxley) - (2) - June 28, 2015, 10:46:54 PM EDT

Re: is that american unemployment measure or really counting all the people out of work? - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 28, 2015, 10:58:30 PM EDT

For one thing BLS has the notion of "discouraged workers". - (a6l6e6x) - June 28, 2015, 11:34:39 PM EDT

If it's measured like in the US, then yes. - (a6l6e6x) - June 28, 2015, 10:58:14 PM EDT

Greece was supposed to have a shallow recession - (pwhysall) - (21) - June 29, 2015, 01:04:39 AM EDT

The endemic tax evasion problem goes back decades. - (static) - (1) - June 29, 2015, 02:20:15 AM EDT

Agreed 100% -NT - (pwhysall) - June 29, 2015, 03:23:31 AM EDT

It's hard to have a primary surplus without collecting taxes... - (Another Scott) - (18) - June 29, 2015, 08:12:27 AM EDT

I don't disagree - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 29, 2015, 09:39:02 AM EDT

Bring back Ottoman rule! :) - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - June 29, 2015, 01:23:45 PM EDT

Yes, but the Turks have much fancier outfits. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - July 1, 2015, 12:44:09 PM EDT

you sure? looks like a shriners convention -NT - (boxley) - July 1, 2015, 12:49:12 PM EDT

More on the structural problems facing Greece: - (pwhysall) - (13) - July 7, 2015, 03:19:05 AM EDT

Yeah, if only Syria had not won the election, then the Banksters would have fixed everything... :-/ -NT - (Another Scott) - (12) - July 7, 2015, 01:04:41 PM EDT

So what's your solution? - (pwhysall) - (11) - July 7, 2015, 05:03:31 PM EDT

Excluded middle ... but you know that, right? - (drook) - (10) - July 7, 2015, 05:07:22 PM EDT

OK, how do you do that? - (pwhysall) - (9) - July 7, 2015, 05:10:22 PM EDT

You broke it, you bought it - (drook) - (8) - July 7, 2015, 07:48:10 PM EDT

This. - (Another Scott) - July 8, 2015, 02:18:33 AM EDT

Why not? - (pwhysall) - (6) - July 8, 2015, 02:55:45 AM EDT

I don't know that 12-step programs work on social psychology - (drook) - (4) - July 8, 2015, 09:14:12 AM EDT

Or we could just keep right on tipping money into their economy - (pwhysall) - (3) - July 8, 2015, 12:29:12 PM EDT

Oh, I see, you just make up convenient "facts." - (mmoffitt) - (2) - July 8, 2015, 12:48:45 PM EDT

Whev - (pwhysall) - (1) - July 8, 2015, 01:01:47 PM EDT

Re: EZ countries should just keep right on paying. - (mmoffitt) - July 8, 2015, 04:22:58 PM EDT

Right. - (mmoffitt) - July 8, 2015, 09:22:18 AM EDT

Krugman: The Reverse Corleone - (Another Scott) - (4) - June 28, 2015, 10:50:18 PM EDT

Re: "they made Tsipras an offer he can’t accept" - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - June 28, 2015, 11:09:06 PM EDT

Sure you can. At least for a while. - (crazy) - (1) - June 29, 2015, 08:55:23 AM EDT

:-) -NT - (boxley) - June 29, 2015, 11:06:26 AM EDT

Yeah. Who do they think they are? Wall Street Bankers? -NT - (mmoffitt) - June 29, 2015, 08:55:33 AM EDT

Greece blinked - (crazy) - (2) - July 1, 2015, 09:48:40 AM EDT

It's really hard to know who's giving the straight story on this stuff. - (Another Scott) - July 1, 2015, 11:09:18 AM EDT

They are literally playing games. - (a6l6e6x) - July 1, 2015, 06:09:08 PM EDT

Good article on monetary policy and why the euro was doomed from the start - (crazy) - July 6, 2015, 07:17:32 PM EDT

Piketty (and others) open letter to Frau Merkel. - (mmoffitt) - (1) - July 8, 2015, 10:01:39 AM EDT

Puritanical visions of comeuppances (visited on anonymous Others) ..not just the Murican schadenfreude - (Ashton) - July 10, 2015, 04:20:19 PM EDT

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