Monthly Archives: October 2011
Greece ‘Finds’ Treasure, Stays Solvent For Another Month
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The Ugly World Of Auto Sales
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Prying Into the Brain
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A dream—or nightmare—yields to scientific progress: quantitative models recreate thoughts, and brain signals control mechanical devices. Yet, the brain is an unreliable organ that makes up for shortcomings in data with profuse creativity. It’s going to be a wild ride. And Google and Facebook will have a field day.
Japan is Running Out Of Butter
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Deflation In Japan and its Chances in the US
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Deflation phobia broke out again. Fed governor Bullard grumbled about inflation expectations being too low and threatened to print more money, while deflationistas paint the Japanese “deflation spiral” as sheer horror. So here is my experience with that horror.
Alas, in one category, deflation has hounded us for 10 years.