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By now, most of us have come to terms with the fact that exercise, even in small amounts, is good for you. It’s part of the reason that the exercise […]
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The market’s panic wasn’t due to the institution’s bankruptcy; it was more about the government’s response a week later.
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We need to study the connection between the financial markets and the monetary policy itself, says economist John Taylor.
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Was the deviation from the Taylor Rule in the early 2000’s severe enough to lead to the problems we’ve had? Its creator explains.
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The Stanford economics professor suggests taking a three-pronged approach.
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Economist John Taylor doesn’t think the Fed could have done much more in the eye of the 2008 financial storm.
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A conversation with the Stanford University Economics Professor.
In little over a hundred days time, Britain will go to the polls, in what many are already describing as a “game changing” General Election. All elections are important, and […]
President Obama will campaign for Mass. Attny General Martha Coakley in hopes that she will replace the late Ted Kennedy and keep control of the Senate.
The Pentagon has placed blame for the Fort Hood shootings on eight Army officers for not relieving Major Nidal Malik Hasan from his post sooner.
Senator Ben Nelson has removed the deal he cut from the Senate healthcare bill which exempted Nebraska from future Medicaid payments.
13 billion years later, experimenters at UC Berkeley have recreated conditions one millionth of a second after the Big Bang when bizarre plasma filled the universe.
Five years after Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, its leader is polling at three percent while the public expects a rigged election between Moscow’s preferred candidates.
A weak internal government and such massive earthquake devastation have left a death toll that could reach 200,000 and little relief aid.
Ricky Gervais closed his Twitter account six weeks after joining to promote the Golden Globes calling the service “pointless” and users “undignified”.
The U.S. State Department will file a démarche against China over the hacked gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Scientists and Nobel Laureates have set the Doomsday Clock back by one minute because of positive arms control measures leaving humanity seven minutes from destruction.
The top U.S. climate negotiator is reminding the world that countries must follow through on the three-page agreement reached in Copenhagen despite its flaws.
Let’s get this straight up front: President Obama has had a remarkable first year in office. He came into office with two wars and a serious financial crisis to deal […]
I once booked a hire car to drive from Binghamton in New York State to Toronto. As I recall it was a four by four with plenty of space in […]