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Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget

MishTalk

City bureaucrats and the PEL can hem and haw and p**s and moan, but can-kicking exercises, "scoops", and tax hikes will only make the problem worse. Rise of Technocrats, Fraudulent Conveyance, MF Global, the Culture of Greed, Christina Romer, and the US Dollar. December 2007 (69). November 2007 (91). October 2007 (56).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Italy Faces Huge Losses on.

MishTalk

Early last year Italy was prompted to reveal by regulatory filings made by Morgan Stanley that it had paid the US investment bank €2.57bn after the bank exercised a break clause on derivatives contracts involving interest rate swaps and swap options agreed with Italy in 1994. December 2007 (69). November 2007 (91).

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

What’s fascinating about QE is that it has no transmission mechanism to the real economy except as a weak can-kicking exercise - and even then only by creating enormous distortions in pursuit of minute "wealth effects." Rise of Technocrats, Fraudulent Conveyance, MF Global, the Culture of Greed, Christina Romer, and the US Dollar.

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Municipal Bonds an "Outrageous Bargain"? Compared to What?

MishTalk

Greater care must now be exercised and I would suggest that many of you should begin a re-examination of what you own and whether you wish to keep owning it. Rise of Technocrats, Fraudulent Conveyance, MF Global, the Culture of Greed, Christina Romer, and the US Dollar. December 2007 (69). November 2007 (91).

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U.S. Digital Infrastructure Needs More Private Investment

Harvard Business

That’s especially true for digital infrastructure, which both ties together the country and supports connections — commercial, social, cultural — with the rest of the world. The results speak for themselves.