economics

Economics attempts to explain how the behavior of consumers, businesses, and governments affect unemployment, inflation, interest rates, and Gross National Product (GNP). GNP here means the value of all goods and services produced by a country over a specific period of time. Based upon changes in GNP or government spending, for instance, economics helps to estimate the positive or negative impact on unemployment, inflation, or interest rates.

In the blogosphere, writers often use the economics tag in the context of politics and public policy debates regarding unemployment, government spending, or taxes. Another popular topic is the affect public policy decisions have on stock markets. The economics tag would be relevant to discussions involving recession, financial crisis, or economic crisis.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “economics”

• in Politics
  Why “Income Inequality” is a Losing Issue and How to Fix It
  Most Americans don’t care about income inequality. But they do want everyone to get a fair chance.
  by jimmyzuma / on May 24, 2012
• in Politics
  Charting the Rise of Stupidity
  As America grapples with a long term decline, we have only Ronald Reagan to blame.
  by jimmyzuma / on May 10, 2012
• in Business
  It's not Capitalism, it's Cruelty
  As we move through our economic recovery process we must realize that many of those with money seem to be resorting back to their old ways.
  by kalespress / on Mar 16, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “economics”

 

• India based Wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy Ltd. is taking to 20 banks like SBI Capital Markets Ltd., IDBI Bank Ltd. and Bank of Baroda to extend the dollar denominated term loans

  
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  Suzlon Energy Ltd. has to pay the bond holders very soon. Thecompany is India’s largest wind turbine maker. The company is expected to raiseabout $300 million by next month. The money will be used to pay the bondholders.The company is taking to about 20 banks like SBI Capital Markets Ltd., IDBI BankLtd. and Bank of ...
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• Bob Murphy on the Failure of Climate Models

  
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  Great new video from the Austrian AV Club.
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• Shares of PV Crystalox Solar Plc which makes solar wafers and ingots double as it agreed to end customer contract and will receive cash

  
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  PV Crystalox Solar Plc makes solar wafers and ingots. Theyare used in photovoltaic panels. The shares of the company doubled. The companysaid that it will get about 90 million euros in cash as the company has agreedto end a customer’s contract. The shares rose by 121 %.
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• Free Market Medical Care

  
  nikhilhogan.com — Authority: 127
  From The Lew Rockwell Show , the awesome free market Surgery Center of Oklahoma  offers incredibly cheap prices for surgery compared to regular healthcare providers.
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• Facebook’s Day 1 Flop

  
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  Well, it looks like Facebook didn’t do too well on its first day as a publicly traded company.  The newly printed shares did not soar as many anticipated and the underwriters had to step in to artificially keep the price above the initial offering .  This is the sort of market manipulation that drives investors ...
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• Student Loan Crisis: Why So Many Colleges May Fail?

  
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  “We know the model is not sustainable,” said Lawrence T. Lesick, vice president for enrollment management at Ohio Northern University. “Schools are going to have to show the value proposition.  Those that dont arent going to be around .”
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• Germany based solar panel maker Solarworld AG will file complaints against Chinese competitors in Europe

  
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  Solarworld AG is based out of Germany. It makes solar panel.It is the biggest solar panel maker in Germany. The company plans to filecomplaints against Chinese competitors in Europe for dumping and sometimesselling solar components are cheaper than cost. U.S. has imposed anti bumpingduties on Chinese companies. This ...
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• Your 2011 Tax Deductions

  
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  Usually there are a lot of kinds of breaks that are offered for tax payers no matter what their tax brackets 2011. Being aware of what tax deductions are present, and what breaks you can get, is a crucial part of submitting your 2011 tax return. Each tax breaks that you are currently qualified for can potentially ...
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• Age of Energy Scarcity

  
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  A Brave New World A Discussion with Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller   By Jeff Fritz Design by Andrea Barros (First published in the Arbitrage Magazine Issue 3 ) There is an assumption many on this Earth share, one that says the world revolves around money.  ...
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• Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the GOP?

  
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  Note: If anarchists and libertarians are serious about attacking and destroying the U.S. state, then we need to begin targeting the center-left establishment given that it will be the ruling party in the decades ahead as the Republicans begin to go the way of the Whigs. By Pat Buchanan Among the more controversial ...
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• Eoin and corporation tax paid by big companies

  
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  Eoin Clarke  is back with one of his unsourced graphs : The 10 companies above [Shell, BP, HSBC, BHP Billiton, AstraZeneca, GSK, Barclays, Vodafone, BAT, BG Group] made a combined profit of £100 billion last year. During the same period the UK economy stagnated, adding less than £5bn to its GDP. During the In ...
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• The Administrative State vs. the Social Insurance State

  
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  By Jason Brennan In Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, I examine the question of which country is the most libertarian. I argue briefly that while the United States has the highest percentage of self-identified libertarians and uses the most libertarian rhetoric, it is not the most libertarian country in ...
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• Occupy: Nucleus of the New Society?

  
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  By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification for such ...
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• Why did the U.S. financial sector grow so large?

  
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  Edward Conard, author of Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy is Wrong , offers a hypothesis.  He suggests the underlying cause is the (relatively recent) prevalence of risk-averse foreign capital: With an abundance of risk-averse offshore capital, the constraint to increase ...
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• Three ways governments extract your teeth: taxes, inflation, currency depreciation

  
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  We are all aware of taxes, an honest, transparent, democratic impost. Taxes, if properly used, can actually increase our wealth by providing essential public goods. But there are two sneaky ways in which governments extract our wealth. When taxes are less than expenditure (deficit financing), we may think we are not ...
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• University of Queensland Scholarship for Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Australia 2012

  
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  Scholarship for Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Chile students at The University of Queensland’s School of Economics Australia 2012 Study Subject(s):International .. [Read Full Scholarship Detail]
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• Without changing their Keynesian ideas, there is NO way that Europe and USA can recover

  
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  Hear a man of truth speak about the first law of economics (there is no free lunch).
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• ObamaNation: Facebook Edition

  
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  Whether Facebook is going to take over the world and allow people to do something more meaningful than boast how they ate a 10,000 calorie nacho lunch or not remains to be seen, but the company’s founders got rich(er) after its IPO. Will they  be patriotic millionaires and beg for their tax rate to be raised or ...
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• Economics Business Studies Teachers Bina Nusantara International

  
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  BINA NUSANTARA started its path towards today’s grandness with a humble beginning. Hard work, dedication, commitment, and clear vision combined with the passion to educate young minds have led this institution, once a small computer course to transform into an integrated educational institution, educating ...
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• Environmentalism as advertising

  
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  From Ben and Jerry’s ice cream : He insists that focusing on “shared values” – rather, presumably, than share value – is “very profitable”. Whereas conventional companies “pay a whole bunch of money to advertising agencies to come up with a made-up story to try to make the public feel good about ...
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