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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It’s the stupid economy

Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) rightfully gets confused with the various utterances about the economic outlook, and in so doing brings laughter to an otherwise serious matter.

Source: Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, July 16, 2008.
 
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Strength, weakness, recession, depression

By Cees Bruggemans
You may have heard the expression. When your neighbour looses his job, it is a recession. When you loose yours, it is a depression.
Especially people in protected employment often show little understanding as to what it is to be unprotected.
There are a fair number of protected, as many as half the formal […]

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Moral hazard

Hat tip: Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture, July 17, 2008.
 
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

5 Things Madiba Can Teach Us About Financial Independence

By Mark Cliff
It was not possible to be on planet Earth this weekend without being touched by news of Madiba’s 90th birthday. Looking back at the great man’s life and some of the lessons we can learn from him, I wondered what it was that we could learn from his life about achieving and maintaining […]

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