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ffendy Juraimin

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I have special interests in Economics, Business, Technology and History.

Some of my economics articles are about economic growth, entrepreneurship, property rights, and information technology. Member of American Economic Association (AEA) and Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI).

My favorites are Milton Friedman, Steven Spielberg, Sid Meier, Agatha Christie, San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Athletics, and Golden State Warriors.

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Transparency International releases "Corruption Perceptions Index 2004" ranks a record 146 countries where Corruption is rampant in 60 countries. Most oil-producing nations are prone to high corruption.

My thought of economics as intermediary science in business school displayed as a diagram (by Effendy Juraimin, May 26, 2003)

Learn the principles of "value-oriented investment", i.e. the use of fundamentals in guiding the valuation of securities, from the "Dean of Wall Street" and the mentor of Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham.

William Dwyer reviewed Zagros Sadjadi's lecture on "Chinese Economic Thought Before Adam Smith." He Identified three main schools of thought: the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Confucians. The Legalists believed in maximal power to the state. The Taoists favors virtually no state interference in economy. The Confucians were middle of -the-roaders on this issue. More..

IMD and World Economic Forum released their latest (2003) World Competitiveness Yearbook rankings.

Why cities without "weirdos" are losing the economic development race? Prof. Richard Florida said, "in order to have economic growth, you need to be the kind of place that stimulates all types of creativity. The places that are open to everyone [and] to their weird and wacky ideas are the ones that are going to prosper." He called his new economic development model 3Ts: Technology, Talent, and Tolerance.

Overview the sustainability of economic recovery process in Indonesia by Sri Mulyani Indrawati. (Journal of Asian Economics, Volume 13, Issue 5 , September-October 2002, Pages 577-596).

U.S. foreign policy strategy shifted from containment to pre-emptive after September 11, 2001.

Learn the history of Iraq, from the cradle of civilization to the Gulf War II. View the best Iraq map and with profiles.

Latest and past oil statistics: oil production, reserves, and price

Market Data

I. Stock Indices and Currencies

II. Oil Production, Reserves and Price

	Russia becomes the second largest oil producer in the world, thus reducing the role of OPEC in influencing the oil market price.
	Iraq has 113 billion barrels of proven reserves, second worldwide only to Saudi Arabia, which has 262 billion barrels. But because of its two decades of war, Iraq's oil potential remains relatively unexplored.

Conflicts in the middle east region had spiked oil prices in 1974, 1979, and 1990. What about Gulf War II?

Increased Iraqi oil production (from a short Gulf War II) will plummet oil price to as low as of late 1998 and early 1999, when it briefly hit $10 per barrel.