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This is What a Giant Vampire Squid Looks Like

…promised settlement with the Beckers, Goldman dropped its claims for $626,000, far more than the couple’s original $356,000 in mortgages and $70,000 in missed payments. The firm gave the Beckers

General Equilibrium Theory by Popular Demand

…that we are completely totally absolutely selfish. Becker showed that the results can be generalized if people are divided into non overlapping sets (called “families”) where people only care about…

What’s dumb about a windfall profits tax?

…by: MeLoseBrain? on August 4, 2008 at 2:16 PM | PERMALINK Yes we must make the best the enemy of the good. Plus Keynesianism unbuilds character. Someone notes that Becker