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| | FACSNET Reporting Tools |
 | | Total government outlays (the sum of expenditures on goods and services, transfer payments and interest on debt) must equal total revenue (the sum of taxes and US government loans). | | | Goods or resources are wasted when they are allocated to uses which are not the most valuable. | | | The accepted common medium of exchange for goods and services in the marketplace that functions as the unit of account, a means of deferred payment and a store of value. |
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http://www.facsnet.org/tools/ref_tutor/econo_term/glossary.html
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| | Public good |
| | The study of collective action shows that public goods are still produced when one individual benefits more from the public good than it costs him to produce it; examples include benefits from individual use, intrinsic motivation to produce, and business models based on selling complement goods. | | | A government may subsidize production of a public good in the private sector. | | | One general solution to the problem is for governments or states to impose taxation to fund the production of public goods. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/public_good
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| | Basic Concepts of Economic Value |
| | Thus, economic value is measured by the most someone is willing to give up in other goods and services in order to obtain a good, service, or state of the world. | | | The economic benefit to individuals is often measured by consumer surplus. | | | Economic benefits to producers are measured by producer surplus, the area above the supply curve and below the market price. |
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http://www.ecosystemvaluation.org/1-01.htm
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| | Economic Testimony - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
| | Since the profits were projected for a surgeon, it made little economic sense that a surgeon would continue practicing for several years with a negative income. | | | In a case involving individual distributors in a multi-level-marketing (MLM) industry, the plaintiff’s economic expert sought to estimate the number of would-be distributors the manufacturer would have in its distributor force, in the absence of alleged disparaging remarks and literature. | | | A spreadsheet was used to list sales, costs, and resulting profits by month for over twenty years. |
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http://www.rrc-inc.com/articles_economic_testimony.php
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| | Good Governance--The IMF's Role |
| | Our approach is to concentrate on those aspects of good governance that are most closely related to our surveillance over macroeconomic policies—namely, the transparency of government accounts, the effectiveness of public resource management, and the stability and transparency of the economic and regulatory environment for private sector activity. | | | Third, the IMF has promoted transparency in financial transactions in the government budget, central bank, and the public sector more generally, and has provided assistance to improve accounting, auditing, and statistical systems. | | | Executive Directors on the significance of good governance for economic efficiency and growth. |
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http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/exrp/govern/govindex.htm
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| | The Effects of Economic Conditions And Access to Reproductive Health Services On State Abortion Rates and Birthrates |
| | Economic resources such as higher wages for men and women and generous welfare benefits are significantly and consistently related to increased birthrates; however, even a 10% cut in public assistance benefits would result in only one birth fewer for every 212 women on welfare. | | | The analysis is based on an economic model in which the behavior leading to pregnancy and to pregnant women's decisions on whether to carry the pregnancy to term depends on the women's resources, direct costs, opportunity costs, attitudes and preferences for children. | | | We also assume that women's preferences are constrained by their available time and economic resources, the availability and costs of alternative reproductive health services, and the time and financial requirements of raising children and producing household commodities. |
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http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/2905297.html
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| | Ontology of Economics |
| | The putative value is subjectively evaluated by the agent such that, if he decides to purchase the good, he assigns a greater value to the possession of the good in relation to the possession of the money he is willing to give up in exchange, given alternative uses for that money. | | | Instead, mainstream economists refer to the 'economic microfoundations' of such phenomena which are constituted by elements such as firms, consumers, and markets. | | | For example, a 'consumer' presupposes goods and a market, and 'firms' presuppose the production of a good, the demand for a good, and a labor market, and 'market' presupposes an existing notion of exchange. |
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http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/farber/zuniga.html
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| | Chapter 2. Economy and Economic Goods |
| | They must become clear: (a) about their requirementsthat is, about the quantities of goods they will need to satisfy their needs during the time period over which their plans extend, and (b) about the quantities of goods at their disposal for the purpose of meeting these requirements. | | | Difference between economic and non-economic goods is based on a difference in the relationship between requirements and available quantities of goods to satisfy those requirements (needs and scarcity). | | | But with these goods, as with goods of first order, they find that some are available in quantities exceeding their requirements while the opposite relationship prevails with others. |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~tlidderd/menger/menger_ch2.html
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| | Raymond James - Economic Monitor - Monthly Outlook |
| | The economic fundamentals appear to be in good shape, with healthy (not “weak”) job growth and a strong trend in business fixed investment. | | | The economic fundamentals for the household and business sectors are strong. | | | The economic fundamentals of the household and business sectors remain in good shape. |
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http://www.raymondjames.com/monit2.htm
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| | The nature of blood as an economic good |
| | It is thus obvious that every economic good has some intrinsic price attached to it, even if the person who actually consumes it does not pay for it, as is the case with gifts (which are paid for by a donor) or publicly provided goods (whose costs are borne by the taxpayer). | | | Meanwhile, scarcity implies that the consumer would, in general, prefer to receive more of the good than is currently available to him to use, even though his utility rises by a diminishing amount for each additional unit consumed. | | | This is possible because if we are to narrow our definition of air to mean only that type of clean, oxygen rich gas that we desire for breathing purposes, then transactions involving payments can be made between parties to secure ever scarcer supplies of this economic good [3]. |
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http://www.geocities.com/humanoffal/section14
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| | ISLAM AND THE ECONOMIC QUESTION |
| | The economic policy is the goal aimed at by the laws which deal with the management of economic affairs. | | | The most fundamental aims of the economy of any nation is to provide an adequate supply of goods and services for its citizens and to enable each citizen to acquire and use them to raise their standard of living. | | | The state achieves this through the management of public property, through the use of income from other sources and through provision of a good economic environment so that people satisfy their needs due to their involvement in economic activity. |
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http://www.geocities.com/harkatulshariah/khilafah/economic.htm
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| | Online TDM Encyclopedia - TDM and Economic Development |
| | Transport planning decisions are sometimes portrayed as a tradeoff between the economic development benefits of increased mobility, and social and environmental benefits from reduced demand. | | | These additional costs reduce economic development and competitiveness, particularly since such expenditures tend to divert capital from more economically productive uses and increase the consumption of imported goods (vehicles and fuel). | | | Economic Development refers to progress toward a community’s economic goals, including increases in economic productivity, employment, business activity and investment. |
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http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm54.htm
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| | A Model for Efficient Aggregation of Resources for Economic Public Goods on the Internet |
| | A basic economic principle of efficient pricing for either type of good is that price must be equal to "society's" marginal cost, the cost of producing a unit of the good for the next user. | | | Economic taxes (whether from public or private sources) are used to achieve the latter. | | | The economic value lost is equal to the bid price each was willing to pay; it is the value forgone by those excluded from access by the market price placed on access. |
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http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/HallgModel.html
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| | Good Jobs First, nonprofit organization, subsidies, disclosure, jobs scam |
| | Good Jobs First is tracking these disclosures and has put together a summary of the data. | | | As part of an effort to address this problem, states are beginning to disclose which employers have the most workers (and their dependents) on the rolls of public healthcare programs. | | | : A 50-state survey of economic development subsidy programs — such as loans, grants, and tax incentives — reveals that not one single state effectively coordinates its economic development spending with public transportation planning. |
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http://www.goodjobsfirst.org
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| | Economic signs good |
| | The economy received a triple dose of good news Friday as reports indicated that consumer confidence is on the mend, sales of new homes are on a record pace and orders of big-ticket items are rising. | | | Consumer spending is a lifeline for the economy, representing two-thirds of economic activity. | | | For Swonk, the confidence figures mean consumers are finally acknowledging what they have been doing for most of the fourth quarter -- spending. |
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http://www.freep.com/money/business/consum29_20011229.htm
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| | Weblog Entry - 05/20/2003: "TESTIMONY" |
| | For legal and economic reasons, state and local governments are obliged to close budget gaps with spending cuts and tax increases. | | | It is a commonplace of economic theory that the lower one’s income, the more of it one is likely to spend rather than save. | | | Such a formula would be neutral with regard to governments’ good or bad fiscal behavior, but it would take account of their bad economic luck. |
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http://maxspeak.org/gm/archives/00001190.html
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| | Good Spirit REDA |
| | Good Spirit REDA will continue to act as a CanSask Business Resource Centre, and to provide small business loans. | | | Short term objectives are to support the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce in developing an Action Yorkton plan; to assist member communities in surveying existing businesses to determine needs and opportunities; and to continue to promote Yorkton as location for call centre operations. | | | Short term objectives are to continue partnerships with Yorkton's Downtown Business Association on downtown revitalization, with Yellowhead REDA on a business needs survey in Esterhazy, and with Norquay and Pelly on business and consumer surveys. |
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| | More Economic Sophisms - Mises Institute |
| | Carl Menger demonstrated that people will pay a price only for goods that they could use more of than is currently available, and he called such items "economic goods." People don't (currently) pay for air, because there is more around than we can use. | | | For instance, as the governments of many developing nations and many U.S. states decided in the 1990s that a vigorous technology sector was important to their economic future, they poured subsidies into high-tech ventures. | | | We can conclude that what they mean is that they would prefer if everyone else subsidized their purchases of programming services. |
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http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1015
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| | U.S. economy posts strongest growth in nearly 20 years - Oct. 30, 2003 |
| | The burst of GDP growth was led by a 6.6 percent jump in consumer spending, the fastest pace since the third quarter of 1997. | | | "This is obviously an extraordinarily strong report, led by the consumer, but also with good signs about the state of the business sector and business confidence," said Lehman Brothers economist Drew Matus. | | | The Fed recently left interest rates unchanged at levels not seen consistently since 1958, saying the recent surge in economic growth had not changed its outlook for inflation. |
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http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/30/news/economy/gdp?cnn=yes
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| | Valley economic outlook good |
| | Arthur Blakemore, chairman of the W.P. Carey School of Business Department of Economics, said interest rates have to go up, even if inflation wasn't a prospect. | | | Happel puts some of the blame for rising prices on the Federal Reserve not raising interest rates sooner, which would have slowed the economy down and tamed inflation. | | | The Valley's economy and real estate market continue to look bright, but economists are showing some concern about job growth and interest rates. |
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http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special37/articles/0512economy12.html
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Publishers will devise various means to monetize their investments in books-as-platforms, but finding the right economic model (that is, the one that provides the highest return on capital) will be a process of trial and error. | | | Publishers with seminal content may charge other publishers for the right to "call" the seminal property, but, on the other hand, if the costs are perceived to be too high, the seminal work may not be able to generate a substantial network around it, thereby undermining its seminal status. | | | There is a trade-off here between short-term and long-term economic gain--which is another reason that publishers will continue to get bigger and bigger, as only large organizations can finance a long-term vision. |
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http://www.kdictionaries.com/newsletter/kdn10-probook.html
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| | The greater socio-economic good |
| | Consumers will need to make a decision whether they want untraceable e-cash, or to contribute to the greater socio-economic good. |
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http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/08/msg00940.html
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| | The Left Coaster: Good And Bad Economic News |
| | The main cause appeared to be jobs remained scarce despite strong economic growth, as the percentage of people reporting jobs "hard to get" climbed to 28.1 percent from 27.9 percent in October -- possibly foreshadowing spending caution ahead. | | | Now the bad news, and for the future: the widely regarded Conference Board gauge of consumer confidence fell for the four straight month to an eight month low. | | | That spending caution this holiday season may already be upon us. |
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| | COMESA 2000, good initiative for economic cooperation |
| | Foreign Minister Amr Moussa yesterday told a press conference held at the Foreign Ministry premises that the conference which would be entitled "COMESA 2000" will discuss liberalization of trade among COMESA states, direct foreign investments and globalization challenges. | | | The participants will include ministers of foreign affairs, trade and economy, heads of banks, and heads of governmental institutions, international financial institutions and multinational corporations. | | | "The wide participation and good arrangement will render the conference successful and help introduce other conferences," he added. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000217/2000021762.html
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| | CAB - Communication Agents Blog |
| | Micropayments appear to offer the ability to voluntarily reward "ethical" content creators such as independent reporters, free-lance writers, musicians, illustrators, poets and other types of artists without the need for a middleman or "publisher" to sit in between the content creator and the final users and without the need to charge for high prices. | | | Even now that I am about to write my answers to them, I hesitate to look and read as I anticipate the subtle pleasure of opening up and sharing with you important issues and topics that are really close to my heart. | | | How would schools and universities have to change to achieve such a product? |
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http://robingood.typepad.com/commagents_blog
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| | Economic Lunacy |
| | Then there's USA Today, "Economic growth from hurricanes could outweigh costs" (9/26/04). | | | Petersburg Times reporter Joni James, "Construction creates thousands of jobs, insurance provides for billions in consumer purchases and new facilities built to higher standards might help offset future storm-related losses." | | | Maybe we shouldn't be so harsh on these reporters and economists in light of the fact that they didn't receive training at George Mason University's Economics Department where there are no bad economists. |
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http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/04/lunacy.html
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| | United Press International: Analysis: Bush's economic 'good show' |
| | He wanted a "good, solid energy bill to my desk as soon as they (congressmen) get home," and terrorism insurance to help reinvigorate construction, and also restraint by Congress on spending. | | | The question, however, is whether the forum will help to tackle those problems. | | | Bush's father, George Bush senior, had been seen by many as being aloof from the economic problems of ordinary Americans as they struggled with the early 1990s recession. |
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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020813-051619-8622r
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| | Bush economic report praises 'outsourcing' jobs |
| | The report repeats the administration's contention that the Bush tax cuts must be made permanent to have their full beneficial effect on the economy. | | | In his message to Congress yesterday, Bush said the economy "is strong and getting stronger," thanks in part to his tax cuts and other economic programs. | | | Bush's economic stewardship has become a central issue in the presidential campaign, and the White House is eager to demonstrate that his policies are producing results. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04041/271362.stm
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| | 20th WCP: Utility and Universality versus Utility and the General Good |
| | Nevertheless, every decision about the preservation of goods and of resources, has been based on the premise that certain goods are equally necessary for all. | | | The idea of universal good, with an non-contradictory application, guarantees not only the equality of all in the economic process, but also the preservation of economic resources. | | | This universal good is a rational measurement, which replaces the material measurement. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Econ/EconHage.htm
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| | St. Petersburg / Clearwater: Pinellas County Economic Development |
| | The U.S dollar is weaker than the Euro giving European consumers stronger purchasing power to buy U.S. made goods. | | | How to Start a Business (Presentaré en Español) | | | Good Business Pinellas Television showcases the Pinellas County Business Community. |
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| | One Thousand Reasons: Economic Good News |
| | And the little stimulus effect they have will pale in comparison to the long-term damage of deficit spending, loss of services, and damage to state budgets. | | | The Economic Policy Institute points out that not only have we suffered from a loss of jobs, but because of more people joining the labor market, the gap between the number of jobs and the number of people seeking them has grown much faster than the job loss numbers frequently reported. | | | We share his enthusiasm for the job growth, which has been so painfully absent since March 2001 when the recession began. |
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http://www.thousandreasons.org/opinion/110803.html
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| | Vladimir Solovyov [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Rather, the goal of free communality is the just distribution of wealth, which, in turn, requires an organization to administer fair and equal treatment of and to all, in other words, a political arrangement or government. | | | Three fundamental forms of the social union arise from human striving for the good: economic society, political society or government, and spiritual society. | | | Solovyov terms a community of beings freely striving to realize each other's good as if it were his or her own good "free communality." Although some undoubtedly see material wealth as a goal, it cannot serve as a moral goal. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/solovyov.htm
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| | Economists reject European software patent proposals - ZDNet UK News |
| | But the economists writing to the European Parliament poured scorn on any notion that software patents and business growth are connected, saying most economic research does not support this claim. | | | The current draft legislation would be a recipe for disaster, they said, and would encourage large companies to build up an arsenal of patents that they could use to fend off competition from smaller companies. | | | Such patents aided "in particular the growth of small and medium enterprises and independent software developers," she wrote, citing a study on the issue carried out for the European Parliament by London's Intellectual Property Institute. |
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| | Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy - Open Site |
| | Still, the economy is one of the strongest in Europe; inflation, interest rates, and unemployment remain low. | | | The relatively good economic performance has complicated the BLAIR government's efforts to make a case for Britain to join the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). | | | Critics point out, however, that the economy is doing well outside of EMU, and they point to public opinion polls that continue to show a majority of Britons opposed to the euro. |
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http://open-site.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy
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| | Forbes.com: U.S. Dow up, technology lower after economic data |
| | The dollar held just above a record low against the euro as a surprise drop in U.S. consumer prices in November suggested the Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates low, discouraging investment in the U.S. assets. | | | Investors also sifted through a host of other economic information, including a report that showed a bigger-than-expected rise in industrial output. | | | NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks were higher in midmorning trade on Tuesday after a batch of upbeat economic data, but technology shares were lower as investors moved their money into more cyclical stocks. |
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http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003/12/16/rtr1182804.html
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| | More economic good news |
| | Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Sunday he is encouraged about prospects for further U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter as U.S. businesses restock sharply depleted inventories ahead of the holidays. | | | Bad news is good news for them, and no news from their mouths is good news for the rest of us. | | | Democrats still have yet to talk about the economy since the good news started rolling in. |
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http://www.etalkinghead.com/archives/more-economic-good-news-2003-11-09.html
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| | Essay - Far Eastern Economic Review |
| | Vivek Moorthy, a professor of economics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bangalore, tells us there is little need to worry about India’s revenue deficit. | | | In fact, a crisis mentality could do more harm than good. | | | Philip Andrews-Speed, an energy expert and author, outlines the steps China should take—in the short and the long term—to avoid a potentially catastrophic energy crisis. |
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http://www.feer.com
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| | Dr. T's EconLinks.com: Economics News, Data, Analysis and Links |
| | Do you have an economics, business or finance site that is of interest to economists? | | | Visit InvisibleHand.info, our guide to the Open Directory (which is a directory bigger than Yahoo!). | | | T's EconLinks.com: Economics News, Data, Analysis and Links |
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http://econlinks.com
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| | The Difficult Art of Economic Forecasting - Finance & Development - December 1996 |
| | Forecasting movements in economic activity is even more difficult for the developing countries. | | | Maintaining such an assumption, however, is difficult because much of the market information available at any point in time (including indicators such as interest rates, exchange rates, and business expectations) reflects, among other things, the anticipation that policy variables may change in the future. | | | a US national, is an Economist in the World Economic Studies Division of the IMF's Research Department. |
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http://www.worldbank.org/fandd/english/1296/articles/0141296.htm
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| | NPR : Economic Good Times |
| | Inflation is under control, interest rates and unemployment are low, the stock market and industry profits are on the rise. | | | Talk of the Nation, February 1, 2000 · GUESTS: ROBERT KRULWICH *ABC News Correspondent ROBERT KUTTNER *Co-founder and Co-Editor of the American Prospect The U.S. is celebrating its longest economic expansion in history. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1069819
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| | The Rogue Jew: Economic Good News |
| | The fraud at Enron, WorldCom and other companies, which would bloom into historic scandal in the fall of 2001, also occurred under Clinton's watch. | | | The Economist magazine says the U.S. will grow more than twice as fast as Europe this year, and our unemployment rate is roughly half that of France and Germany. | | | "I think economic growth will be faster in the second half of 2004 than in the first," writes David Malpass, the highly regarded Bear Stearns strategist. |
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http://jewsforbush.blogspot.com/2004/09/economic-good-news.html
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| | High Desert economic future looks 'extraordinarily good' |
| | "The economic outlook for the area is extraordinarily good," said economist John Husing. | | | Reasonable land prices will continue to draw residents and businesses, they say, as the area slowly transforms itself into a regional logistics center. | | | Schniepp listed the Inland Empire as one of the Southland regions showing the strongest business and job growth. |
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http://www.vvdailypress.com/2004/110288019497721.html
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| | Economagic: Economic Time Series Page |
| | Bank of Japan and Economic Planning Agency of Japan | | | Want to know how State economies fared during the Clinton Administration? | | | With gold pushing $450, a book like this should be a natural for Xmas." |
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http://www.economagic.com
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| | Struggle between Economic Good and Evil |
| | An enormous advantage the evil ones have over the good ones is the | | | while the good ones are plagued by intellectual rivalry that can only be satisfied by | | | This cannot be undone by telling people they really love castor oil. |
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