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The Real Issues: Economics, Politics, and International Relations

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Welcome to my blog on just about everything. The site is constantly under construction, so check back often as new topics show up. We'll be writing about economics (including a special section on the financial crisis and the Great Depression (which hopefully will remain without the word "First" in front of it)), international relations and politics, news tidbits from Vienna and Europe, and anything else we feel like commenting on.

What's New?

Charles Kirchofer talks about the Green Economic Revolution and how it how could be done right, or wrong, in the economics section.
Charles Kirchofer discusses detecting and controlling housing bubbles, the skyrocketing yen and the deep cause of the financial crisis: global imbalances in spending and saving and why it's so hard to combat them; all in the economics section.

Think you've got what it takes to make money trading commodities? Prove it! I just finished a gold trading simulation game with QBasic (yes, I actually still use QBasic, a relic from the 80s computing world for writing programs). You'll have to download the QBasic program to use it, but it's fun. To download the game and QBasic (it's a tiny program for MS-DOS mode), check out the links at the bottom of the economics page.

The Bi-Weekly Quote

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on." - Robert Bloch

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Links

Daily Show Interview with Mike Huckabee Thank you Jon Stewart.
Economist.com chart of economic conditions when presidents took over, starting 1932, to put things into perspective
It's time: America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world from The Economist online.
Economist.com article on money markets in general, LIBOR in particular, and why it may be falling faster than meets the eye.
Alan Greenspan's introductory address to the Congressional Oversight Committee (C-Span / YouTube)
Watch the entire hearing (4 hrs. long, but with good stuff in it)
Economist.com article on the dangers of overregulation as a misguided response to the financial crisis

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