Submitted by Businomics Blog
Fears of the subprime mortgage crisis spreading into other credit markets prompt the question of whether our economy could operate without the volume of credit that we’re used to.
Our economy could be healthy with much less credit than is common now. Businesses could operate with greater equity and retain more earnings. […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Investing tends to promote unyielding and often conflicting ideas about what works and what doesn’t. Witness the schism between those who embrace active management vs. indexers. Many use both, although some fall into one or the other camp and summarily dismiss the other. But is it wise to preemptively reject passive […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

What a difference 12 hours makes. Click to enlarge.
(HT: Captain Capitalism)
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Submitted by unsettling economics
I just read a fascinating study of the way Harvard professor (especially Dershowitz) rely on untrained assistants to do their work for them to allow the elite academics become public intellectuals, while doing shoddy work.
Russell, Jacob Hale. 2007. “A Million Little Writers.” 92138 (November/December): p. 78.
http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1763.html
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.”
~Economist Thomas Sowell
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
From a new study by Canada’s Fraser Institute (news release here, full report here) titled “Cost Burden of Prescription Drug Spending in Canada and the United States”:
Even though Canadian prices for brand name drugs are lower than U.S. prices for identical drugs (by 51% on average), consumers in both countries spend roughly […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

According to recently released global stock market data from the World Federation of Exchanges, world stock market capitalization reached another all-time record of $63.1 trillion in October (see graph above, click to enlarge). The $3.3 trillion monthly increase in stock market value from September was the second largest monthly increase in history, […]

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