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Your Tax Dollars at Work: Case-Shiller Edition
Try and spot the lone bull market in housing…
Throwback: Danger (1995)
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One More Year-End List (come on, what harm can it do at this point)
At least 12 U.S. natural disasters each caused a minimum of $1 billion in damage and unprecedented loss of human life.
"Bracing for Another Wave of Foreclosures"
In the typical Hollywood movie script, there are three acts. In the first, we are introduced to the characters and the world in which they live. In the second act, our protagonist is slammed by a conflict he or she must overcome (my boyfriend’s moving out of town and I don’t know if we can…
Hot Links: A Detour at Capitol Hill
Your morning financial links, expertly curated.
The Aberrational Performance Taskforce
“In 2009, the SEC began developing a computer-powered system that now analyzes monthly returns from thousands of hedge funds.”
Try Playing Defense Against Jerome Simpson
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My Favorite Albums of 2011
My record reviews, what you may have missed in 2011.
The Year of Mass Defiance
Chrystia Freeland sums up 2011 perfectly in characterizing it as a year in which the “elites” were taken by surprise. For a long time, the comfort of the status quo allowed them to go about their dictatoring and monopolizing without fear of the people underneath them, who were suffering more with every passing year. But…