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…defunding of state unviversities and also the rise in tuition and student debt. Robert Waldmann writes about the constant ballance of reporting. Yves Smith has covered mortgage settlements and the…

…a five-state auction. Using a discount rate of 2.5% (the 10-year Treasury bond yield on Sept. 4 was 2.45%) the $1.25 billion in nominal value has a present value of…

…have a new water bond that includes a lot of funds for this sort of thing. It strikes me that it fits with the model of internalizing profits/externalizing costs. If…

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…this before (link). I also wrote in June (link) that the extra loosening of monetary policy by the ECB in Europe would be a test of the Fisher effect. Since…

…10-year Treasury bonds briefly fell below 2%. Financial markets in emerging markets have been particularly hard hit,. The Institute for International Finance estimates that $9 billion was withdrawn from equity…

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