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...for their views on the now critical state the sovereign debt crisis in Greece has reached. Below are three videos of James Galbraith, Joseph Stiglitz and George Soros giving their opinion of what is at stake. Bloomberg finishes this off with a fourth interview...
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Naked Capitalism
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Economists for the People, Father and Son, the GalbraithsOpEdNewsWhen Bill Moyers interviewed James Galbraith on his Journal last November I was very impressed with the professor's ideas. A reprint by alternet on January ...
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'Michigan' exhibit uncovers forgotten eraNorth Wind OnlineTo document that growth and its effect on the town and its people were D. James Galbraith and his wife Susan Galbraith. Together they photographed the lives ...
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FireWire vs. USB: Which is Faster?TheAppleBlog (blog)Macworld's James Galbraith notes that most modern Macs, except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models (such as my late 2008 unibody, alas), ...and more »
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This week in reviewsChicago TribuneFrom the Middle Ages to the Great Crisis of 2008, this history by a booster explores the culture of ...
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WD Announces New My Book Hard Drives With USB 3.0PC WorldEarlier today, WD announced the latest (and fastest) member of its popular My Book external drives, the My Book 3.0. ...and more »
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Harvard's Feldstein: Risk Economy Will Run Out Of Steam In '10Wall Street JournalBut his worry was countered by James Galbraith, of the University of Texas-Austin. The academic agreed with Feldstein that the fiscal stimulus had ...and more »
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Tapped (blog)The Decade in Liberalism: The People.Tapped (blog)Economists: James Galbraith takes a scathing look at the profession. Back in 2002. Robert Rubin: We picked a fight with him before it was fashionable. ...and more »
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Libertarian Michael Ostralenk of the Campaign for Liberty helped put together the coalition that signed the December 2 CAF letter opposing the Bernanke reappointment until the Federal Reserve had been audited. It was signed by myself, Robert Borosage,
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Firedoglake
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A rather dismal economic decadeAtlanta Journal ConstitutionAlthough that pounding has been real enough, simply comparing today's economy to that of the past can be deceptive, said economist James K. Galbraith of the ...
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FireWire Vs USB: Which Is Faster?PC WorldMost modern Macs--except for the MacBook Air and some MacBook models--offer both FireWire and USB connections. ...and more »
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Buying a Printer: Fact vs. FictionPC WorldBuying a printer would seem to be straightforward: Decide what you need the printer to do--text? photos? scanning, copying, ...and more »
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Four reasons why small towns cultivate entrepreneurship.
(350 sec.) Forget front row seats. Memorabilia expert Brandon Steiner can get you the winning pitch.
Reform in executive pay unlikely as Washington looks elsewhere.
Jewel robberies rise in Europe.
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Forbes
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Below are three videos from a talk at the 2009 Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma, CA, where James Galbraith talks about the Hyman Minsky concept of the instability of stability. This concept is fundamental to the behavioural psychology behind
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-harrison/a-minsky-moment-how-finan_b_380970.html
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We are seeing daily reminders of the real horrors of a jobless “recovery,” made worse by the expiration of unemployment benefits and stimulus COBRA subsidies. Yet we’ve seen confirmations that the stimulus bill’s deficit spending significantly helped
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Firedoglake
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/17118
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Four reasons why small towns cultivate entrepreneurship.
(350 sec.) Forget front row seats. Memorabilia expert Brandon Steiner can get you the winning pitch.
Reform in executive pay unlikely as Washington looks elsewhere.
Jewel robberies rise in Europe.
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/bizviz/property-to-alleviate-poverty&feed=rss_technology_breakthroughs
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Four reasons why small towns cultivate entrepreneurship.
(350 sec.) Forget front row seats. Memorabilia expert Brandon Steiner can get you the winning pitch.
Reform in executive pay unlikely as Washington looks elsewhere.
Jewel robberies rise in Europe.
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/bizviz/environmental-concerns&feed=rss_opinions_books
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Ruth Wedgwood’s new column at Forbes.com takes up the uncomfortable question of Peter Galbraith and his financial dealings with regard to Kurdish autonomy, oilfields, and Galbraith’s consulting deal with a Norwegian company that could conceivably pay
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The Volokh Conspiracy
http://volokh.com/2009/11/23/conflicts-of-interest-for-diplomats-former-diplomats-and-the-un-ruth-wedgwood-on-peter-galbraith/
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What exactly is the function of the financial sector in our society? Simply this: Its sole function is supplying capital efficiently to aid the real economy. The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself. But
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The Market Oracle
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article15065.html
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Four reasons why small towns cultivate entrepreneurship.
(350 sec.) Forget front row seats. Memorabilia expert Brandon Steiner can get you the winning pitch.
Reform in executive pay unlikely as Washington looks elsewhere.
Jewel robberies rise in Europe.
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/bizviz/chinas-women?feed=rss_opinions_books
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JAMES GALBRAITH: That’s the point about the crisis, is that it could have been prevented. The people in authority two, three, five years ago, knew how to prevent it. They chose not to act, because they were getting a political and an economic benefit
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Corrente
http://www.correntewire.com/james_galbraith_confidence_will_never_be_restored_until_fraud_addressed
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When Peter Hart Associates asked registered voters recently who they felt was benefiting from the government's economic policies, the resounding answer was that the hundreds of billions poured into the economy have done far more to help those at the
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/public-sees-a-tilted-play_n_337424.html
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Four reasons why small towns cultivate entrepreneurship.
(350 sec.) Forget front row seats. Memorabilia expert Brandon Steiner can get you the winning pitch.
Reform in executive pay unlikely as Washington looks elsewhere.
Jewel robberies rise in Europe.
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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/bizviz/why-politicians-love-keynes?feed=rss_opinions_businessvisionaries
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To this day, Chairman Ben Bernanke has refused to disclose to Congress exactly who has received help under the many crisis measures and under what terms. The legal and constitutional situation is clear: Congress has a right to this information. There
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ETF Investor
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NEW MILFORD -- A local fire training drill on navigating smoky conditions turned into an unintended blaze at the old cement-mixing plant at 21 Still River Drive last week.
The vacant 1955 concrete-slab
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Greater Danbury News-Times
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At the New America Foundation, James Galbraith, Randall Wray and Timothy Bartik offer their policy proposals for dealing with the jobs crisis. These three gentlemen apparently believe that the jobs crisis is merely a symptom of some
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EconoSpeak
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John Hanrahan, Neiman Watchdog - Economist James Galbraith says there are "a lot of things that drive me not to read the press," because of "the confused and ignorant positions of most of the news media" on the issues of deficits and fiscal policy.
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City Desk
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Economist James Galbraith says America’s economic collapse “was the product of wide-scale criminal fraud” but that the press, instead of investigating it aggressively, has treated it as a ‘boys will be boys” phenomenon.
Galbraith, a University of Texas
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Huffington Post
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: What exactly is the function of the financial sector in our society? Simply this: Its sole function is supplying capital efficiently to aid the real economy. The financial sector is a tool to help those that make real tools, not an end in itself.
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Economist's View
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James Galbraith talks about Paul Krugman's NYT article, "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?", the academic discipline after the crash, the forgotten
traditions in economics, the economics and law of fraud and much else
over breakfast at the
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Tens of thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and our so-called “out-of-control spending”. The marchers were chanting "
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Counterpunch
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CONNELL MCSHANE, FBN ANCHOR: We welcome you to our special on the future of the banking industry. Along with Jenna
Lee, I'm Connell McShane. And it really comes down to this phrase we hear so much, right? Too big to fail. Are banks too big
to fail?
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FOX Business
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Though 2.1 percent of government employees in Tulare County federal, state and local have lost jobs over the past year, that's less than half the 4.7 percent job-loss rate for private businesses here.
Though some people believe that public-sector
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Visalia Times-Delta
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Charles Schwab strategist Liz Ann Sonders says extremes of fear and greed are an investor's enemy.
Four reasons why small towns cultivate entrepreneurship.
(350 sec.) Forget front row seats. Memorabilia expert Brandon Steiner can get you the winning
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Forbes
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Some pundits say another fiscal stimulus is needed with unemployment at 9.5% and rising. But much of the money from the last stimulus hasn't been spent. Steve Henn reports.
Kai Ryssdal: If you managed to keep an eye on the business and economics pages
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American Public Media
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Morning all — looks like we’ll be getting some rain here today. Which is good — we could use it.
Here’s the list of potential members from Kuttner — am interested to see who you all think would be good, too:
Some good nominees would be former SEC
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Firedoglake
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(Nanowerk News) Carl Zeiss will launch a new product line for high resolution microscopy this year. Thanks to the combination of two techniques in ZEISS microscopes HR-SIM (High Resolution Structured Illumination Microscopy) and PAL-M (Photoactivated
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Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight
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One of the most often quoted stats about California is that, were we a nation, we'd be the world's eighth largest economy.
But such power can also work in reverse, say economists. And now, there is speculation that whatever ugly deficit deal state
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KQED
http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/06/23/as-california-goes/
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In
his book The
Big Sort, Bill Bishop shows how our country is ever more
divided along economic lines. Migration patterns differ by income,
reinforcing the separation of people into rich and poor counties
a phenomenon that has been on the rise since 197
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LewRockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/depression-heightens-class-distinctions.html
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In his book The Big Sort, Bill Bishop shows how our country is ever more divided along economic lines. Migration patterns differ by income, reinforcing the separation of people into rich and poor counties—a phenomenon that has been on the rise since 197
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Slate
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One only needs to see William K Black and James Galbraith to know that the media has failed.
The fraud in the financial system has been massive from top to bottom.
The media failure continues, both as for the cause and the effect of the 'crisis'.
Obama'
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Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/cjr-media-and-financial-crisis-journali
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INCOME INEQUALITY is at risk of widening because governments across the world are trying to recreate the boom-to-bust patterns of economic activity that led to the current crisis, according to a leading US economist.
James Galbraith, who was speaking
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Irish Times
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Stock markets came under pressure over the past few days as skepticism crept in that economic green shoots could be withering. On top of that, fears that the the US could be facing a credit rating downgrade (are the rating agencies now relevant again?)
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The Big Picture
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Finally, Ive
been attacked sort of.
So far the
response to my book Meltdown,
a free-market look at the financial crisis, has been almost eerily
favorable. Thats very gratifying, to be sure, but criticism is
what gets debate going and pushes a given
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LewRockwell.com
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The results of the government’s stress tests came out Thursday evening, with 10 of the country’s 19 biggest banks being
asked to raise more capital, but it doesn’t mean everyone’s a fan of how the tests were done.
“This was a carefully designed,
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FOX Business
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Editor’s note: These remarks were delivered to a meeting of the Texas Lyceum in Austin on April 3, at a debate between University of Texas professor James Galbraith, an Observer contributing writer, and former Majority Leader Richard Armey, chief
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Angry Bear
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Oh this is more braggadocio, but what the heck. I have been invited by James Galbraith, Chair of the Board of Directors of Economists for Peace and Security to be one of their Fellows. I have accepted the invitation. They were founded in 1989
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EconoSpeak
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JAMES F. HOGE JR.: Okay, welcome to this session of the Council on Foreign Relations, the last session today on the Great Depression, lessons to be learned, lessons to be avoided. We've got a terrific panel to finish up on. But first, let me remind
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Council on Foreign Relations
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Every meeting I have with the Obama administration or members of Congress these days focuses on the economic crisis. But that doesn't mean we aren't also talking about environmental solutions as well. The two
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Huffington Post
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Following Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s “nuclear option” announcement of last week, the action stayed on Capitol Hill with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner outlining his Public-Private Investment Program as well as “new rules of the game” for the
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The Big Picture
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