Monthly Archives: September 2013

Pimco’s Gross on “The seventh inning stretch”

Once you skim through all the Cracker Jack fluff at the start, Bill Gross’s recent piece, “The seventh inning stretch” is worth reading: “What perhaps Minsky couldn’t conceive of was the point at which debt, deficits and interest rates would … Continue reading

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How US students stack up in education

Harvard’s Paul Peterson compares the U.S. education system to other nations. Harvard studies have found no correlation between the states spending more and the level of literacy among students. More expensive does not equate with better educated. This means that … Continue reading

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Marc Faber on today’s late market cycle

The editor of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report discusses the markets. The last two minutes of this clip are the typical trader-tainment babble, but the first 7 min with Marc are worthwhile.Here is a direct video link.

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