…Banks argue for remaining entangled with their profitable proprietary trading and derivatives businesses, since they know that the synergies of being able to use cheap depositor funding for their investment-banking…

…of life with the same speed and precision as they confront presumed high-frequency program trading industrial espionage cases… especially those that allegedly involve Goldman Sachs. The original is from Reuters….

I won’t be saying anything publicly about this one. (Cue sighs of relief from ignorant economists.) Kid Dynamite will….

…criticism. Our present situation allows a Republican minority led by their leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell to hold the nation hostage to the terror of cuts in domestic programs…

…other states, the Connecticut program has no job creation requirements, but is calculated simply as a percentage of “qualified expenditures,” with the rate being 30% in Connecticut. In fact, in…

…income was underreported. She maintains that she reported all of her income and that the mistakes made were “honest mistakes” resulting from her lack of familiarity with the TurboTax program….

…does not make sense from a cost-benefit perspective. A decent NRW program will increase revenue per unit of treated water pumped into the system. Those revenues mean that NRW programs…

…as I know) that the Court has actually found a Spending Clause condition unconstitutionally coercive. Whether it establishes principles that make many other programs vulnerable is a question that will…

…of internal devaluation by the program countries (Ireland, Portugal, and Greece). Weisbrot and Ray find the following (emphasis mine): The paper also finds that Latvia’s net exports contributed little or…

…shortfalls that will force spending cuts to programs that matter to the wellbeing of society. Anyway, listen to the program. Your thoughts welcome in comments to the blog. (And sorry…