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Brad DeLong asks about the top ten econ blogs by net news wire

…Market Movers http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/ Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed http://paul.kedrosky.com/ How should we use judgment to alter this list as spit out automatically by NetNewsWire? What’s missing? What’s erroneously included? What’s out…

Money = Wind, Bush and Fox News?

…doubled the amount of wind power operations in the Portuguese company’s portfolio. German utility E.On has agreed to acquire the North American assets of Irish wind power company Airtricity Inc….

"Yours!"

…that the valuation should be around $24 billion. Or at least that’s how I read this paragraph: If the portfolio’s value were to drop to below about $24 billion, that…

Gas tax fury overrides Pentagon accounting disaster

…reality of what makes me safe. Great. And the voices of concern are heard only faintly. Pentagons-Accounting-Mess Portfolio comments on accounting methods of the Pentagon. On a winter afternoon in…

Bank risk models and regulation

…Zealand have the same data on the risk, returns and correlation of financial instruments and use standard optimization models, which throw up the same portfolios to be favoured and those…

Opus 1: A Discussion on taxation

…more likely to be tax-motivated than labor or saving decisions, do not respond much to taxation.” He specifically notes evidence that portfolio choices do not significantly change, there is not…

Crunch time ahead?

…derivatives on which technical traders make their fortunes. By contrast, in the traditional banking system a bank examiner could look at a bank’s loan portfolio, see that loans were backed…