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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Train Drain

…Hunter Harrison, who pioneered a new business model called “precision-scheduled railroading,” or PSR, that has now been almost universally adopted by the nation’s major railroads. Despite its label, PSR has…

Chinese growth model

http://www.mpettis.com/2013/02/21/a-brief-history-of-the-chinese-growth-model/

How QE2 could cause low investment

…write about, sketch and definitely not write out a model in which Fed purchases of 7 year Treasury notes causes low investment. It happens to be a fact that following…