Title : How to (and Why) Trade Canadian Commodity Company Warrants • Author : Lorimer Wilson • 24hGold.com.

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The Ohio Supreme Court today issued an arrest warrant for an attorney who had been publicly reprimanded in 2006 and indefinitely suspended in 2009. The court’s order notes that he was ordered to appear in person and failed to do…

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Arresting Development

Dean Baker Century Weekly (China), February 1, 2010 See article on original website (Chinese, subscription required) Ever since Keynes wrote The General Theory in the 30s economists have understood the mechanism for escaping the sort of slump the economy faced in the Great Depression. The key point was to generate demand.

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No Way Out: The Political Constraints Obstructing a U.S. Recovery

by Edward Hugh: Barcelona José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, said in Davos this week : “We are a serious country and we will fulfil our promises.” With these words Spain’s Prime Minister sought, during his visit to Davos last week to reassure international investors that Spain, despite the severity of the recession it is currently suffering, and the major challenges facing its banking system, is not about to become another Greece. Just to prove the point he had Labour Minister Celestino Corbacho and Economy Minister Elena Salgado announce in short order that a) Spanish citizens are going to work two more years each in the longer term, and b) face continuing and sweeping cuts in services and increases in taxes in the short term

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Spain Is A Serious Country

Luxury retail in India has been a fascinating journey from a socio-economic perspective. Projected as the next China for luxury goods consumption, the Indian economy has evoked a lot of interest globally given its statistics of some of …

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Story from the Heritage Foundation . (H/T The Washington Post via Neil Simpson ) Excerpt: A new study concludes that abstinence-only education had a significant and long-term effect in reducing teen sexual activity

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New study finds focus on abstinence in sex-ed classes can delay sexual activity

From Dina ElBoghdady and Dan Keating at the WaPo: Rising FHA default rate foreshadows a crush of foreclosures The share of borrowers who are falling seriously behind on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration jumped by more than a third in the past year … About 9.1 percent of FHA borrowers had missed at least three payments as of December, up from 6.5 percent a year ago, the agency’s figures show.

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FHA to Pay Out Claims on 25% of 2007 and 2008 Loans

Merida, February 1 st , 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Sunday, president Hugo Chavez announced the creation of a special fund of $1 billion for the strengthening of the national electricity system; implementing 59 generation and distribution projects, and 50 operation and maintenance projects.

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The 1937-1938 dip was not the product of tight fiscal and monetary policy, but of excessive government regulation and loose monetary policy. We must clear away the misconception that, without deficit spending and easy credit, the market will fail. FULL ARTICLE by Jonahtan M.

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Dangerous Lessons of 1937

One of the more legendary figures in Indiana newspaper history is Jim Barbieri, who spent more than 50 years at the Bluffton News-Banner . I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Barbieri several times during his career that carried far beyond the publication he guided and into the communities it served

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Solving the Local Government Puzzle

Berlusconi Calls For Israel In EU | Obama Spoiling Relations With China Illinois voters: Governor: Adam Andrzejewski Twitter: @AdamForIllinois US Senate: Patrick Hughes Twitter: @HughesForSenate

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Morning Coffee Update 2 February 2010

The news that the government has negotiated a 40% reduction in prices with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association for 300 off-patent drugs (announcements here and here ) got the warm fuzzy feel-good treatment on last night’s RTE News at 9 (the word patent did not make its way into the two-minute report).   This is, of course, undoubtedly good news, particularly for those with regular prescriptions for these drugs.

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Price Reductions on Off-Patent Drugs

[Excerpted from chapter 2 of Society Without Coercion , 1969] Government is, by definition, a “social monopoly of force.” The greatest instrumentalities of force which have ever been assembled, the police forces and armies of the world, are at the disposal of governments.

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The Nature and Morality of Government

Consumers: RT @MasterCardNews: MC A /P Economist: Rapid urbanization in China boosts consumption-led growth http://bit.ly/ahbPTU 4:53 AM Jan 28th from Echofon A question of appreciation: CNY 4 RMB ??

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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Rapid Urbanisation, Rich Consumers & The 2nd Tier, To Woes for Water, Barbie Dolls & Google…& More)

Today’s Daily Angle comes from  Wikinvest Wire member  Kathy Lien of KathyLien.com and FX360.com. You can read the full article on her blog . Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart Click here to download Flash Player now View the full FOREX:GBPUSD chart at Wikinvest Over the past few trading days, the  British pound has been confined to a very tight trading range.

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Down with the Pound

From the Las Vegas Sun: Short sales soar while foreclosure sales slacken (ht sportsfan) Short sales averaged about 7 percent to 8 percent of total [Las Vegas] existing-home closings in early 2009, but averaged 22 percent of the market by the end of the year and in early January … “We have seen a decrease in foreclosure activity in Las Vegas, which was puzzling to us,” said Daren Bloomquist, marketing manager for California-based RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosures in Nevada

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"Short Sales Soar"

Rep. Paul Ryan Conservative Republican Paul Ryan’s response to Obama’s new 2010 budget

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Paul Ryan declares war on Obama’s record 1.56 trillion dollar budget deficit

As part of the annual budget, the Obama Administration released the underlying economic assumptions too (see Page 13 of PDF) For GDP, they are forecasting real GDP growth of 2.7% in 2010, followed by 3.8%, 4.3% and 4.2% in 2013.

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Obama Administration Unemployment Forecast

Buy gold bullion coins or bars ‘for investment’ > Gold News > World Gold Council, the information resource for gold, investment, jewellery, science and technology, historical and culture …

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Buy gold bullion coins or bars 'for investment' > Gold News …

Have you all heard of Phillip E. Johnson, the UC Berkeley professor who is the father of the intelligent design movement?

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Phillip E. Johnson lectures on science and the pre-supposition of materialism

VeteranOwnedBusiness.com is proud to welcome Vetmade Industries, Inc. of Tampa , Florida ( Hillsborough County FL ) to the Veteran Owned Business Directory Non Profit Section .

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VeteranOwnedBusiness.com Welcomes Non Profit Vetmade Industries, Inc.

Public school teachers have filed a class action lawsuit against The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., known as VALIC, according to a recent article in InvestmentNews by Darla Mercado. The teachers are suing on behalf of all individuals who bought a VALIC deferred annuity after Jan.

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Teachers Sue to Recover Variable Annuity Losses

More from the Q4 GDP underlying detail tables … Note: Residential investment (RI), according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), includes new single family structures, multifamily structures, home improvement, broker’s commissions, and a few minor categories. Back in Q4 2008 – for the first time ever – investment in home improvements exceeded investment in new single family structures

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Residential Investment Components in Q4

January 2010’s website stats for VeteranOwnedBusiness.com are now completed.  We are very happy to announce that traffic continues to exceed our wildest expectations.  January’s page view numbers reached nearly a half a million pages viewed. Here are January’s numbers (rounded): 35,000+ = Site visitors in January 2010 460,000+ = Page views in January 2010 13+ = Number of pages viewed on average per visitor 12,000+ = Number of unique search terms used to find VeteranOwnedBusiness.com in various search engines 350,000+ = Total number of all pages in VeteranOwnedBusiness.com 22+ Minutes = Average time on site We’d like to thank the thousands of websites out there who have taken the time to link their websites to VeteranOwnedBusiness.com.  It’s partially because of these great veteran owned business supporters that our daily visitor numbers continue to rise.

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January 2010 Website Statistics for the Veteran Owned Business Directory

Jeff Frankel has a piece on what Chile can teach the rest of the world here . The Irish fiscal debate could usefully move in this direction. The piece is also relevant to the thread below on economic expertise, and to broader debates about whether technical expertise in general is useful to policy making, and is sufficiently appreciated and availed of in Ireland

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Chilean lessons

From the Fed: The January 2009 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices The January survey indicated that commercial banks generally ceased tightening standards on many loan types in the fourth quarter of last year but have yet to unwind the considerable tightening that has occurred over the past two years. The net percentages of banks reporting tighter loan terms continued to trend lower. Banks reported that loan demand from both businesses and households weakened further , on net, over the survey period

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Fed: Banks Cease Tightening Standards, Loan Demand Weakens Further

Dean Baker TPM Café, February 1, 2010 Truthout, February 1, 2010 See article on original website Our political leaders continually assert that we should be thanking them that we are not in a second Great Depression rather than complaining about how bad things are. The second Great Depression theme came up repeatedly in the debate over the reappointment of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. It also featured prominently in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s defense of his handling of the AIG bailout.

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The Second Great Depression Bogeyman

Consider this article from the Washington Post. (H/T Belmont Club via ECM) How Democrats prevent job creation Most of the article talks about how Obama’s temporary hand-outs will not create any lasting jobs – they’ll simply go away as soon as the government stops taking money from the private sector to pay for these public works projects. But then the article talks about free trade and how free trade creates jobs

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How Democrat policies cause unemployment to increase

I had the pleasure of meeting Alex and Ali de Bold at a number of tech related networking events.  As an up and coming start-up with lots of influence in the industry I was eager to help them out.  It took some patience to find the right premises as there were not a lot of vacancies at the time and both Ali and Alex had a solid vision on the type of space that would suit the company.  Further, it wasn’t the smoothest transaction trying to deal with Allied Properties and getting all of the construction covered and amortized into the rental rate.  However, at the end of the day we secured a lease, had the space built out to their specs and moved in on schedule.  If you would like to know more about ChickAdvisor.com you can check them out here ! If you want guidance on how to find your new office space contact me ! About ChickAdvisor Nothing beats a good recommendation and that’s what ChickAdvisor is all about! We are a social media platform for women with user-generated reviews on the best products and local services in North America. In addition to our online presence, we host local events a Product Review Club and videos! Our goal is to help women make better purchasing decisions by getting advice first on a wide range of topics from electronics to electrolysis

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Toronto commercial real estate sinks 2009 marked the worst year in a decade, although the fourth quarter reflected a sharp rebound. Globe GTA 2009 property market weakest in a decade – Realnet Canada After a weak first half of the year, investment activity in the GTA property markets began to recover in the third quarter and continued to rally in the fourth quarter of 2009.

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