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TIME makes its second annual list of the best blogs in the world, spanning politics, housekeeping, astronomy and everything in between — Tom McNichol
Full List - 25 Best Blogs 2009 - TIME
From Paul Krugman to Freakonomics to the Consumerist, we compiled a list of the most influential (and useful) finance blogs out there and then asked some of the best-known bloggers to review one another's work
Full List - The 25 Best Financial Blogs - TIME
The 10 *Really* Best Economics Blogs : Economics : Business : Blogs.com
Craig M. Newmark is an Associate Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University's College of Management. He blogs about "things one middle-aged economist finds interesting" at Newmark's Door (and is not to be confused with Craig of Craigslist ).
Free exchange | The Economist
Mar 26th 2012, 17:43 by R.A. | WASHINGTON IN ANCIENT Greek mythology, a three-headed dog guards the gates of hell and prevents the damned from leaving. It's not a bad metaphor for the present euro crisis, as Jay Shambaugh makes clear in a paper presented as part of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, entitled "The euro's three crises". The single currency is saddled with not one but three serious problems, he explains: a banking crisis, a debt crisis, and a growth crisis: Crucially, these crises connect to one another. Bailouts of banks have contributed to the sovereign debt problems, but banks are also at risk due to their holdings of sovereign bonds that may face default.
Street Sweep - Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds, Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Wall Street, Washington
Apparently Bernie Madoff wasn't the only bad apple at Nasdaq. In the latest shining moment for the U.S. stock exchanges, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Donald Johnson, a former Nasdaq managing director, with ripping off investors to the tune of $755,000 by insider trading ahead of the release of corporate press releases. Johnson, you will be impressed to learn, was in charge through October 2009 of the Nasdaq's "market intelligence" desk, which is surely a misnomer but seems in any case to have afforded him with a lot of info he used to trade profitably on outfits like United Therapeutics ( UTHR ). Fearless leader The SEC has come under heavy fire in recent years for its failure to nab Madoff, a three-term Nasdaq chairman in the 1990s, before he frittered away $20 billion in the biggest-ever Ponzi scheme. But the agency is doggedly trying to restore its good name by putting really catchy quotes in its press releases, an effort that was much in evidence Thursday.Karl Smith - Assistant Professor of Public Economics at UNC-CH & Blogger at Modeled Behavior Americans live beyond their means. This is the conventional wisdom among American elites from Washington to Wall Street to Harvard Yard.
Megan McArdle - Authors - The Atlantic
Personal Finance News & Latest Personal Finance Headlines - DailyFinance.com
When money and friendship mix, the results can get awkward: You front a friend some cash, and then what? Venmo, an app that helps you exchange money through mobile devices, is designed to remove that awkwardness and replace it with something social, and even fun.
I’ve been getting the predictable hysterical reactions to today’s column. And it’s true — I’m a Sharia Jewish atheist Marxist who hates America! Bwahahaha! But one thing actually worth reacting to is the assertion I keep getting that this is all a distraction, that even if we seized all the money of the top 0.1% it would make no difference to the fiscal outlook. Here’s a piece of advice nobody will take: before you make assertions about numbers, look at the numbers. So, what we learn from IRS data is that in 2007, before the Great Recession depressed everyone’s income, the top 0.1% had around $1 trillion in taxable income.
Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com
Two candidates from emerging-market countries have been put forward for the presidency of the World Bank, along with the Obama administration’s nominee, setting up the first contested election in the history of the development institution, which is based in Washington. The American contender , Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert and the president of Dartmouth College, is considered the favorite. On Monday, I posted excerpts from a conversation with one of the challengers, José Antonio Ocampo, a former Colombian finance minister. I also spoke with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s finance minister, who has won the endorsement of Nigeria, Angola, South Africa, the African Union, The Financial Times and The Economist . From 2007 to 2011, Ms. Okonjo-Iweala was a managing director of the World Bank, working directly under its current president, Robert B.
Economix Blog - The Economy and the Economics of Everyday Life - NYTimes.com
DealBook - NYTimes.com
Just as its shares started selling to the public for the first time, BATS Global Markets, one of the nation’s newest and largest electronic exchanges, halted trading on its own stock after a series of technical errors in its system. In a memo prepared for a coming Congressional hearing, investigators described how Jon S. Corzine, the firm’s former chief executive, asked an executive in the firm’s Chicago office to transfer $200 million to replenish an overdrawn account at JPMorgan Chase in London. Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive who recently resigned in spectacular fashion, has met with publishers this week, including imprints at several prominent houses, Julie Bosman of The New York Times reports.
One of the most famous and funny Monty Python skits is the “Four Yorkshiremen. ” Four cigar-smoking, tux-wearing swells recount their childhood and try to top each other with stories of hardship. “Oh, we used to dream of livin’ in a corridor!” says another.
The Wealth Report - WSJ
The most common jobs in the U.S. are among the lowest paid, with one notable exception — registered nurses. According to Labor Department data through May 2011 released this week , the 10 most popular professions made up more than 20% of the jobs in the U.S. economy. Nine of those occupations — administrative assistants, laborers, janitors, customer-service representatives, waitstaff, food-preparation workers, office clerks, cashiers and retail salespersons — make less than the average wage in the U.S. — $45,230.
Real Time Economics - WSJ
Project Syndicate - the highest quality op-ed articles, analysis and commentaries
Project Syndicate boasts the most advanced commenting method available online. Our state-of-the-art “ProPyn” system allows you either to leave a general comment about an article, or to “pin” a comment to a specific paragraph. What’s more, you can set custom filters to manage visible comments, making it easy to avoid distractions and get the most out of your participation.…but now faculty members, school administrators and corporate recruiters are questioning the value of a business degree at the undergraduate level. The biggest complaint: The undergraduate degrees focus too much on the nuts and bolts of finance and accounting and don’t develop enough critical thinking and problem-solving skills through long essays, in-class debates and other hallmarks of liberal-arts courses. Companies say they need flexible thinkers with innovative ideas and a broad knowledge base derived from exposure to multiple disciplines. And while most recruiters don’t outright avoid business majors, companies in consulting, technology and even finance say they’re looking for candidates with a broader academic background…Such changes should appease recruiters, who have been seeking well-rounded candidates from other disciplines, such as English, economics and engineering.
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