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What Moves the Interest Rate Term Structure?
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FRBSF Economic Letter, November 7, 2011 , Michael Bauer
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People's Bank of China versus the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of Japan.
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What do these three central banks have in common?
Investments Office, October 2011
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Creative Destruction at its Best: The History of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1896-2010
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Over 106 stocks have been a member of the Dow at some point or another.
This chart marks the span of time that each one of these stocks spent in the Dow, and shows the rise and fall of the index over this time frame.
Financial Graph & Art , John Paul Koning
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Why Health Care Matters and the Current Debt Does Not
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Excerpt
Federal Rreserve Bank of St. Louis, October 2011 , Brett W. Fawley and Luciana Juvenal
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...on Texas dollars
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Texas: What Makes Us Exceptional? Where Are We Vulnerable?, Dallas Fed, October 6, 2011 , Remarks of Richard Fisher before the Texas Economic Development Council Annual Conference
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...on inflation ghosts of the 1970s
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The Fed’s Dual Mandate Responsibilities: Maintaining Credibility during a Time of Immense Economic Challenges; Chicago Fed , October 2011 , Speech delivered by President Charles L. Evans
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The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
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"The economy is a marvel of complexity. Yet no one designed it and no one runs it."
Harvard Business Press; September 14, 2007 , Eric Beinhocker
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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"The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better."
Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (June 7, 2011) , Matt Ridley
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The "déja vu" financial affairs of Greece in 1868!
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Plus ça change...
From Chambers Encyclopaedia, "A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People", Volume 5, 1868. Quoted in Private Eye (5 August 2011).
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Christine Lagarde's turncoat:
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"On July 23rd, acting then a France's finance minister, she congratulated herself (sic) for the good results of French banks at the latest stress tests. On August 27th, acting now as IMF president, she called for "substantial" and mandatory recapitalisation to bolster European banks' balance sheets without excluding those same French banks."
Cazenove Capital Management , European Alpha Absolute Return Fund Commentary, September 2011, Lionel Rayon
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