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Showing posts with label The Tinkerbelle Economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Tinkerbelle Economy. Show all posts
Feb 17, 2016

Penny for your thoughts, but do you take MasterCard?

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I've been using plastic for a while. It returns a couple-three percentage points on money I'd spend anyway. I avoid the heartbreak o...
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Sep 24, 2015

Yogi Berra, free-market economist

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Awwww. Yogi died yesterday. We'll miss his wisdom, particularly on Janet Yellin and the free-money Fed. "A nickel ain't worth...
Sep 17, 2015

Fed Wanks

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If you like semi-artificial excitement, this has been an excellent week to read the financial press carefully. The American central bank wil...
Aug 26, 2015

Well, that didn't last long

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The big rich became the poorer-yet in the last minutes of NYSE trading yesterday. My panel of experts blames it on the Chinese again. Until ...
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Aug 25, 2015

Please...

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...stop all that cheering and clapping. Such constant adulation makes me uncomfortable. GLOBAL MARKETS REBOUND AS CHINA CUTS RATES TO HEL...
Aug 24, 2015

Chicken Little

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I haven't fully digested the past four days of stock market Armageddon -- a fancy way of reporting that,  whatever I say,  I am not  at ...
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Jul 6, 2015

The Art of the Lede

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While not totally reflective of the story, this AP lede is the best I've seen in several days of media Odes on the Grecian Burn. FRAN...
Jul 1, 2015

Silver Sex in a Greek Cave

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(Inspired by a morning AP headline saying Greek politicians  are about to "cave in" to the people who loaned them money and now wa...
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Apr 20, 2015

George Will and the Great Raisin Raid

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Over four long years, Marv and Laura grew abut 500 tons of raisins out in California. By government reckoning, that's about $700,000 dol...
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Mar 18, 2015

Patience my ass...

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It is a pretty normal day here at Camp Jiggleview. The weather is chilly and gray, so I'm tidying up the dump, running some errands, and...
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Jan 19, 2015

Put that in your alpenhorn and smoke it

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I told you the goddam Greeks would screw up your next day at the range. About four years ago ago Greece finally discovered it was broker t...
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Sep 23, 2014

There's nothing new about mulish tyranny

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In late autumn,  510 years ago, seaman Christopher Columbus was in a painful bed in his rented house near Seville. After four voyages of dis...
Aug 3, 2014

Hey Ms. Yellin...

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I gotchur "2 per cent" inflation hangin' cuz I still still use a dangerous incendiary in a Zippo. Observe the one on the rig...
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Jul 30, 2014

The Thousand-Dollar Morning

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There aren't many  days when I blow through $1,000 before breakfast. It all started with New Dog Libby whose food supply was down to 4...
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Jun 25, 2014

No, it is economics where truth is the first casualty

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Here's a good place to expose the fairy tale tellers   such as Janet Yellin, Barack Obama, and most every politician and professional ec...
Mar 6, 2014

Follow the ruble

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In the great counting house of Moscow, the accountants are breaking out the vodka. Boss Putin's economic enhancement plan is working. ...
Feb 7, 2014

The most wonderful Wednesday ever

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Four days and a wakeup. Then it's the Wednesday of the Three Blessings. Two of them are sure things, as sure as any temporal thing c...
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Feb 6, 2014

I'm going home to Mother and I am taking the teevee!

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Sanborn is an inoffensive little country town about 45 miles down the road. Folks get along. The economy is pretty good.  Hardly enough crim...
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Feb 3, 2014

Welcome, Janet!

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Janet Yellin has just been sworn in as the chief of of the American mimeograph machine.  To celebrate, the American equity markets crashed a...
Jan 24, 2014

The Renaissance Libertarian Shivers

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It is a little chillier than I like here in the Commandant's Quarters this morning, too cold for comfortable showering. That happens f...
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