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The top of today’s reading list the description of how a student took on Reinhart and Rogoff and won …….. and the last article is a peer reviewed paper by Steve Keen which shows the research that should be done rather than assumption based work such as that by Reinhart and Rogoff.
- How a student took on eminent economists on debt issue – and won (Edward Krudy, Reuters) Hat tip to Roger Erickson. It was a student who embarrassed Reinhart and Rogoff.
- Spanish Squatters Invoking Robin Hood Deter Investment (Sharon Smyth, Bloomberg)
- Hybrid solar system boosts natural gas powerplant efficiency by 20 percent (David Szondy, gizmag)
- How our children are indoctrinated with the Big Lie (Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, Monetary Sovereignty) Rodger Malcom Mitchell is a contributor to Global Economic Intersection.
- The Taliban: We Didn’t Do It (Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau, The Daily Beast)
- War on Whistleblowers: How the Obama Administration Destroyed Thomas Drake For Exposing Government Waste (Marcy Wheeler, AlterNet)
- Fed and Bank of Japan caused gold crash (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph) “There is a threat of deflation almost everywhere.”
- Was “Cigarette-Money” in World War II POW Camps a Case of Commodity Money Origination? (Matthew Berg, New Economic Perspectives) Matthew Berg has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- Focused Sunlight (Robert Cay Johnson, tax analysts) Robert Cay Johnson has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- Predicting the ‘Global Financial Crisis’: Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics (Steve Keen, The Economic Society of Australia) Steve Keen is a Global Economic Intersection contributor. This is a wonkish peer reviewed journal article but well worth the time to read for anyone who is serious about understanding economics. Go on – spend the time. After all it is a weekend.
