Just read : http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/stiglitz200804.
It is painful enough as it is.
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A not unrelated message : for the first time ever the price of gold reached 1000 USD per ounce in New York early trade this morning. Reasons are : the weak dollar (well, well, well) and rising oil prices.
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This blog offers a mixture of genealogy, confused contrarian ideas and selected b*y ruminations.
Pablo Carpintero
- Pablo Carpintero
- your devoted servant, is a happily retired economist, and way too old to mend his ways. Pablo knows that many economists have the perfidious tendency to turn into professional idiots. That's why his rule of life is to be as contrarian as possible, and then some ...
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A guy I have known for almost 70 years
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Economists ...
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"WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF ON THE SIDE OF THE MAJORITY, IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND REFLECT. "
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I'm quite certain that Dubya will be ranked amongst the worst US presidents ever.
now I know it!
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