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The top of today’s reading list is the research paper causing all the fuss about Rogoff and Reinhart…….. and the last article says privatization originated with Goldman Sachs twenty years before Thatcher.
- Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogo ff (Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Polin, Political Economy Research Institute, 15 April 2013)
- Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? It’s the Banks (Les Leopold, Alternet) Hat tip to Dan Flemming.
- Bad Decisions Arise from Faulty Information, Not Faulty Brain Circuits (Catherine Zandonella, Princeton University, Science Daily) Hat tip to Russell Huntley. Do you think this applies to economics and politics?
- How influential was the Rogoff-Reinhart study warning that high debt kills growth? (Tim Fernholz, Quartz) See GEI Opinion article by Mike Konczal.
- How to avoid making an Excel mistake like Rogoff and Reinhart (Ritchie King, Quartz) See also Researchers Find Problems with Reinhart-Rogoff Data.
- 9 ‘Chained CPI’ Facts They Don’t Want You to Know (Richard Eskow, Huffington Post, 11 April 2013)
- 7 Housing Markets That Are Roaring Back (Daily Real Estate News, Realtor Mag, 16 April 2013) The only problem is that the top three are still basket cases.
- How Julian Assange Fooled the Media Once Again (Michael Moynihan, The Daily Beast, 16 April 2013). While the main stream press was all over the latest WikiLeaks releases which were really public domain documents, they ignored the real investigative journalism story on off-shored trillions. Econintersect didn’t cover the WikiLeaks junk but did have the offshore money story.
- Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama’s Betrayal of Social Security (David Linderoff, World News Daily Information Clearing House) Hat tip to Dan Flemming.
- WRONG! Privatisation was not a ‘Thatcherite’ Concept. (Chris Templeton, OpEd News, 13 April 2013) Hat tip to Derryl Hermanutz.
