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added 2008 Mon Apr 21 7:00:00 by unknown user
Feeling blue? You may want to think twice before heading to the mall. A recent experiment found that people who watched a clip from a sad movie were willing to pay significantly more for a water bottle than those who watched part of a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef. Saved By: projectionista | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Mon Jul 2 7:00:00 by unknown user
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added 2007 Thu Jun 14 22:14:13 by populist
Mark your calendars. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun. It was announced the morning of Wednesday, June 13, 2007, by economic writers Steven Pearlstein and Robert Samuelson in the pages of the Washington Post, one of the foremost house organs of the U.S. monetary elite.
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 7:00:00 by unknown user
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added 2007 Fri Jun 8 18:13:28 by populist
Murray Rothbard's scholarship spanned an enormous range, including philosophy, methodology, economic theory, the history of economic and political thought, economic history, economic policy, law, and contemporary politics.
added 2007 Thu May 31 18:18:34 by jovial
China is conquering Africa as it becomes the preferred trading partner of the continent's dictators. Beijing is buying up Africa's abundant natural resources and providing it with needed cash and cheaply produced consumer goods in return.
added 2007 Wed May 23 18:21:35 by catstevens
No doubt about it, if there were a Miss Energy Pageant, Miss Ethanol would win hands down. Everyone loves ethanol. "Ramp up the availability of ethanol," says Hillary Clinton. "Ethanol makes a lot of sense," says John McCain. "The economics of ethanol make more and more sense," says Mitt Romney. "We've
added 2007 Wed May 2 1:43:41 by Dakota
Netscape checked out EconSM, which was held in Los Angeles last week.
added 2007 Fri Apr 20 21:34:05 by populist
Does an investment make sense? You can figure it out by weighing the rewards against the risks. As the rewards increase, typically, so do the risks. So you look for a happy balance. If the rewards are respectable and the risks are reasonable, you might make the investment. But apply the same formula to your life and you come up short.

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added 2007 Fri Mar 30 6:06:32 by spokerpoker
So, how are the war heroes doing at home with cost of living and quality of life?
added 2007 Thu Mar 22 14:58:29 by bind
They used to say that the first 24 hours of a crisis was critical. Now, it's the first hour.
added 2007 Sat Mar 17 14:34:48 by dragmped
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added 2007 Thu Mar 15 6:34:07 by SpaceCoyote
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added 2007 Wed Mar 14 5:34:09 by Deep_Thirteen
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added 2007 Mon Mar 12 5:56:11 by populist
There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the give-away or delegation of any expressed duty/power to any other branch or institution. The Federal Reserve act was unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous from its first moment of existence -- and remains exactly that today.
added 2007 Thu Mar 8 0:05:05 by nizamm
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added 2007 Tue Mar 6 4:35:28 by starlingdavidhunter
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added 2007 Sat Mar 3 11:04:13 by kennycmk81
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added 2007 Tue Feb 27 19:50:11 by populist
Now that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has left office, he is freer to speak his mind about the state of the economy. And so on Monday, he warned that a recession might be coming in the U.S. by year's end. It sent shudders through financial markets. He's sort of a King Kong when it comes to forecasting.
added 2007 Thu Feb 22 5:50:12 by populist
I feel compelled to continue to plead for a dialog concerning illegal immigration that extends beyond the bombastic PC oratory that is projected, oftentimes, by members of American society that do not suffer from the economic impact that the constant influx of cheap labor manifests.
added 2007 Thu Feb 22 0:04:14 by abarilla
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added 2007 Sat Feb 17 13:07:05 by Ousama
Economics is the "study of the allocation of scarce resources which have competing uses". Like every society, the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 must allocate their resources so as to make themselves as well off as possible. Most of the time, being "better off" means surviving another day, and this requires careful planning
added 2007 Wed Feb 14 9:03:40 by phuly
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added 2007 Tue Feb 13 22:04:03 by unknown user
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added 2007 Tue Feb 13 16:04:27 by unknown user
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added 2007 Sun Feb 11 7:25:14 by populist
The finance ministers and central bankers of the world's seven wealthiest countries met with their counterparts from the world's fastest growing economies in the German town of Essen on Saturday.
added 2007 Tue Feb 6 1:00:08 by redjade
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added 2007 Sat Feb 3 23:00:08 by CraigEwert
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added 2007 Fri Feb 2 1:00:08 by benmiller
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added 2007 Thu Feb 1 2:30:11 by danbri
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