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  • Financial First Steps: How to Establish Credit

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    Financial First Steps: How to Establish Credit

    For those who aren’t students and are attempting to build credit, there is a hurdle to overcome, because lenders abide by the unwritten law, “you must have credit to get credit.” Fortunately, there are a number of ways to overcome this.

  • Rethinking “Safe” Investing as Retirement Approaches

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    Rethinking “Safe” Investing as Retirement Approaches

    When it comes to retirement drawdown strategies, what you read in the popular and financial press is often focused on households with higher-than-average savings.

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    “Leading Chinese credit rating agency downgrades USA government bonds”

    “One of China’s leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. If China, now the second biggest economy in the world, stops buying US government bonds this could have a very negative effect…

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    A Return to the Gold Standard? – Richard Ebeling

    “Monetary central planning has worked no better than any other form of central planning over the last one hundred years. The world’s central bankers – just like the central planners in the old Soviet Union – just do not have the knowledge, wisdom and ability to successful manage the monetary system of a market economy.…

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    Is There a Government Bond Bubble?

    “YES, there is a government bond bubble. And it’s huge. Uncle Sam and his counterparts in the EU and Japan are broke and are, almost surely, going to print vast quantities of money to cover their enormous spending obligations. The printing presses are already working full time. The Fed, for example, has increased the monetary…

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    “A Monetary Policy Simulation Game”

    The author presents a computer game that puts the player in the role of a central bank governor. The game is a stochastic simulation of a standard reduced form macro model, and the user interacts with this simulation by manipulating the interest rate.

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    “Calculating the Candy Price Index”

    “In this classroom experiment, students develop a price index based on candy-purchasing decisions made by members of their class. They use their index to practice calculationg inflation rates and to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the consumer prices index (CPI). Instructors can use the experiment as an introduction to the topic of inflation and…

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    “Euro Under Pressure As Greek Bonds Slump”

    “The euro is slumping against the dollar Wednesday morning as Greek bond prices tumble and their yields surge higher against their German counterparts. The dollar is split against other major currencies, with little change against the yen, a retreat against the Canadian dollar and a partial rebound against the U.K. pound. As talks between Greece,…

  • Financial First Steps: How to Establish Credit

    •

    Financial First Steps: How to Establish Credit

    For those who aren’t students and are attempting to build credit, there is a hurdle to overcome, because lenders abide by the unwritten law, “you must have credit to get credit.” Fortunately, there are a number of ways to overcome this.

  • Rethinking “Safe” Investing as Retirement Approaches

    •

    Rethinking “Safe” Investing as Retirement Approaches

    When it comes to retirement drawdown strategies, what you read in the popular and financial press is often focused on households with higher-than-average savings.

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    “Leading Chinese credit rating agency downgrades USA government bonds”

    “One of China’s leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. If China, now the second biggest economy in the world, stops buying US government bonds this could have a very negative effect…

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    A Return to the Gold Standard? – Richard Ebeling

    “Monetary central planning has worked no better than any other form of central planning over the last one hundred years. The world’s central bankers – just like the central planners in the old Soviet Union – just do not have the knowledge, wisdom and ability to successful manage the monetary system of a market economy.…

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    Is There a Government Bond Bubble?

    “YES, there is a government bond bubble. And it’s huge. Uncle Sam and his counterparts in the EU and Japan are broke and are, almost surely, going to print vast quantities of money to cover their enormous spending obligations. The printing presses are already working full time. The Fed, for example, has increased the monetary…

  • •

    “A Monetary Policy Simulation Game”

    The author presents a computer game that puts the player in the role of a central bank governor. The game is a stochastic simulation of a standard reduced form macro model, and the user interacts with this simulation by manipulating the interest rate.

  • •

    “Calculating the Candy Price Index”

    “In this classroom experiment, students develop a price index based on candy-purchasing decisions made by members of their class. They use their index to practice calculationg inflation rates and to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the consumer prices index (CPI). Instructors can use the experiment as an introduction to the topic of inflation and…

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    “Euro Under Pressure As Greek Bonds Slump”

    “The euro is slumping against the dollar Wednesday morning as Greek bond prices tumble and their yields surge higher against their German counterparts. The dollar is split against other major currencies, with little change against the yen, a retreat against the Canadian dollar and a partial rebound against the U.K. pound. As talks between Greece,…