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General Equilibrium theory and Finance

…they say “an economy” 1) an economy includes a set of agents each of which has a utility function. The agents rationally maximize their expected utility. 2) Each agent has…

PlameGate: Blaming the Wilsons

…is that the name of Valerie Plame has been publicly available for a long time. Then again, Fitzgerald interviewed her neighbors and no one knew she was a CIA agent….

PlameGate: Blaming the Press

…at this two years ago) – and then she suggested it was someone else who first leaked Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA agent. Her NRO colleague John Podhoretz writes:…

…be a major change agent for world peace. I also believe a free Palestinian state would be a major change agent for world peace. Ariel Sharon came to America and…

…a CIA agent if you could find out what he’s up to on Google. In fact, that’s virtually proof that he is a CIA agent. Note that Capitol Hill Blue‘s…

Liberal Media in Action CNN Headline (from the front page): Alleged Chinese double agent indicted. Nowhere in the story did it mention that the spy in question, Katrina Leung, is…