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Excerpt: Image by matt.hintsa via Flickr Escaping the mediocrity, sometimes unfathomable bureaucracy, and a general lack of opportunities in their home countries, many European economists have stayed in the US after pursuing a degree. This is not exactly shocking news. But it reminds me of my own. So allow me to indulge for a minute. While in university, some of my friends went on exchange, and many to Europe. While getting B-ish grades in our own universities, many came back with A+ from schools in Europe while maintaining a party schedule the rest of us could only dream of. Not too long…
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Excerpt: Welcome Gen-X readers, and thank you for visiting my blog. I write about investing, macro-economics, society, culture, career, and any other ideas and thoughts I have from my own experiences. Some samples are available here. If you enjoy my posts, then please consider subscribing to the RSS feed and spread the word, I would love to hear from you! Here are some places to start that will give you a taste of this blog: More on the Recession What are high profile economists saying about 2009? Hear from Roubini, Taleb, Faber, Rogers, Schiff, Coxe, and more. Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the…
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Excerpt: It’s been a month since the Investoralist officially kicked off, and I thought I’d briefly pause and write about what I’ve learned so far. Granted, a month is barely a blip, and some of the musings may seem pretty amateur to bloggers that have been labouring in this medium for years. But hey, this is the Internet, everyone gets their piece. And there’s hardly anything that I can do to prevent you from clicking away. So off I go. The need to provide value. Before I enrolled in politics – that was my choice for graduate studies, I was interested in…
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Excerpt: Thank you to Penny Daily for including us in its Carnival of Investing Strategies #5. What makes a successful long-term investor? Is it an exceptional understanding of the market? Is it a Blackberry full of Wall Street contacts that tip you on every insiders’ move? Is it a PhD in quantum-physics or mathematics? No. Because if that was the case, then most investment funds with their well-paid, well-educated, and well-connected managers would not be walking around with their portfolios 50% lighter. So what is it about the market that suckers in so many people? How is it that…
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Excerpt: On an ABC interview aired February 10th, President Obama acknowledges that America has a thing or two to learn from two previous sufferers of financial crisis brought on by housing bubbles. TERRY MORAN: There are a lot of economists who look at these banks and they say all that garbage that’s in them renders them essentially insolvent. Why not just nationalize the banks? PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, you know, it’s interesting. There are two countries who have gone through some big financial crises over the last decade or two. One was Japan, which never really acknowledged the scale and magnitude of the…
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Excerpt: There’s a been a lot of talk of the Swedish bail-out models by the economic big-wigs lately. Here are some facts to get you up to snuff. What brought it on? In the early 90s, Sweden suffered from an economic crunch brought on by the property bubble. From 91 to 93, the economy went into the reverse gear. According to the Swedish central bank, “a tidal wave of bankruptcies” between 1990 and 1994 left Sweden’s seven largest banks, which accounted for 90 percent of the market, with loan losses totaling the equivalent of 12 percent of Sweden’s annual gross domestic product. The Swedish bailout Sweden…
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