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Global Warming costs: another view

…Fairly Pleasant CO2 Arithmetic”, and in comments he said that the current trading price was in the $3 to $6 per ton range. Concurrently we had a Report issued by…

Worth a read…buy a leash and muzzle

…used it aggressively, it may well have reinforced rather than allayed fears about the trading firm’s health. If other firms continued to refuse to deal with Bear, its collapse was…

Has it begun?

…order to prevent investors from panicking on Monday about the ability of Bear Stearns to make good on billions of dollars in trading commitments. In a potentially even bigger move,…

Where DID the money go? Part 2

…find a way to value its U.S. subprime bonds and other assets. CDOs aren’t bought and sold on exchanges and their trading has little transparency…. Bruce Bent, who in 1970…

Free trade, Republican’s no like (along with others)

…a disconnecting of foreign trade equals free trade policy. I really don’t believe anyone is against trading, they just have a major problem with the current rules and the referees….

Top 100 Economic Blogs includes Angry Bear

Currency Trading has included Angry Bear as one of the top 100 economic blogs overall, characterized as a left leaning economics category. (Hat tip to DolB for the link) Calculated…

Stuff and nonsense, or does it make sense

…remarkable degree. Some of the other stories reminds me of how we do not pay for the cheap toasters and such from our major trading ally. More than we know….

WTO GATS and protectionism or nationalism

…the WTO. But we haven’t done so yet, which means that eight American trading partners soon could retaliate against our unfair trade practices — a move that could start a…

Free Trade vs the World Bank

…as some kind of sliding scale based on only the tangibles. Wine vs wool was it? We’re loosing the trade wars as a nation because we’re writing trading agreements to…