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Today's post comes from Miranda Marquit. She writes about personal finances for YieldingWealth and edits debt consolidation information for Destroy Debt.
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Q1: Dollar Down 4%
http://www.forexblog.org/ 2008/ 05/ q1-dollar-down.htmlAlthough the first quarter of 2008 ended on March 31, it wasn't until last week that the Federal Reserve Bank finally finished tallying all of the data and released its obligatory report on the performance of the Dollar.
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The Under-Principled Life
http://econlog.econlib.org/ archives/ 2008/ 05/ the_underprinci.html(May 13, 2008 01:34 PM, by Bryan Caplan) I just finished re-watching The Bridge on the River Kwai. If you've never seen it, it's all about Colonel Nicholson...
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A Prophecy and A Must Read
http://independentsunbound.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ prophecy-and-must-read.htmlNever make predictions, especially about the future, is a wise piece of advice. But prophecy can also be understood as "suggesting the possible". The possible large-scale consequences of current global trends have been explored in an earlier column in this series (see "A century on the edge, 1945-2045", 29 December 2007).
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Odd twist and turn to the gas tax suspension proposals
http://www.justaguywhoreadsthepapers.com/ odd-twist-and-turn-to-the-gas-tax-susp…I wrote last week about the ridiculous pandering going on by Sen. McCain and Sen. Clinton regarding a suspension of the federal gasoline tax during the summer travel season. I suggested then that it was idiotic for a variety of reasons.
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Why Economics was Late? Was it Late?
http://oxonomics.typepad.com/ oxonomics/ 2008/ 05/ why-economics-w.htmlA while ago Tyler Cowen asked 'the absence of a developed economics until the mid-18th century remains a startling anomaly in the history of ideas. Why was that?' One answer provided by Arnold Kling is that people really began to be accustomed to market economic activity only in the time of Adam Smith.
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Conspiracy Theories and the Federal Reserve
http://federalist.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ conspiracy-theories-and-the-feder…If you spend much time in anti-income-tax libertarian circles you will discover that fear and loathing of the IRS is followed closely by deep suspicion of the Federal Reserve (”Fed”) and abiding nostalgia for the days of the gold standard. Libertarians spin vast conspiracy theories about who controls
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The Thought Of A Recession
http://marketingbeercast.com/ 2008/ 05/ the-thought-of-a-recession/James and Jerry explore the thought of a recession. They define it in their own terms, and then go on to state specific strategies to use during an economic downturn to see success. What are you waiting for? This recession could be exactly what you need!!!
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Poverty Challenge Media Coverage
http://homelessalliance.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ poverty-challenge-media-cov…With the Poverty Challenge concluding last week, there was a lot of press coverage around the region. Bill O’Connell, executive director of the Homeless Alliance, called upon the city and the county to form a poverty task force to address policy from a poverty perspective.
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Ten Propositions Supporting Green Development by Jerry Yudelson
http://www.resustainability.co.uk/ blog/ ?p=14This article in Building, reflects the general consensus at Think 08 regarding commercial developments. The propositions start about half way down the article!
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Retail Sales for April was stronger than expected
http://financialsight.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ retail-sales-for-april-was-stronge…The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that U.S. retail and food services sales figures for April 2008. Seasonally adjusted, retail sales were down 0.19% from last month (economists had expected a 0.3% drop) and were up 2.0% from a year prior. Adjusted for inflation, retail sales were down 1.47% from a year ago.
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