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Regulating Enterprise by Alex Merced Time and time again we hear in the news that we need stronger regulation on Oil, Housing, and Banking to prevent all the problems we've seen over the last few years. Today, I'd like to make the argument that the problems with all three of these sectors has...
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Alex Merced
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Wed, Jun 30 2010
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Filed under: Subsidies, Moral Hazard, Risk, Taxes, Federal Reserve, SIPC, FDIC, Liability, Fannie, Oil, Central Banks, Unemployment, Freddie, Real Estate, Housing, Enterprise
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Seventy-three (73) years have ellapsed and Venezuelan agriculture, industry and education remain stagnant. The ideas expressed on the essay below, which constituted the unfollowed recipe for Venezuelan development during the twentieth century, remain as current as ever. Sowing oil stands by to be executed...
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Rubén
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Sat, Dec 26 2009
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Filed under: Venezuela, oil, parasite, 1936, progressive, sowing, mines, wealth, Arturo Uslar Pietri, reproductive, agricultural
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The following projects welcome your comprehensive international financing and support: 1) Enrolling Nigerian, Congolese, Canadian and world youth at the School of Cinema and Television of Caracas 2) Promoting exchanges and exhibits between Jordanian, Nigerian, Japanese, Venezuelan and world artists and...
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Rubén
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Mon, Nov 30 2009
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Filed under: auto parts, Caracas, oil, Africa, South America, film, ocean freight, passenger flights, Kenya 2010, movie industry, School of Cinema and Television, gas, Lagos, electronics, chamber of commerce, Abuja, energy, art exhibits
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This is an open letter to the people of Saskatchewan and anyone who has followed the rise of this beautiful, formerly forgotten Canadian province. Although my business is based in Florida as I happen to hold a U.S. social security number which helped me incorporate it, I now live and work in my home...
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Rubén
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Tue, Nov 17 2009
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Filed under: Venezuela, Saskatchewan, outside world, first nations, oil, traditional, employment, petroleum, urban, province
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The end of the de facto petrodollar standard has profound and lasting implications for the US dollar, oil, and gold. The US is the epicenter of the global financial crisis and economic downturn, but the US continues to exercise disproportionate control of the oil trade and to enjoy the unique status...
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Ron Hera
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Fri, Oct 23 2009
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Filed under: Federal reserve, US dollar, Asia, Asian Tigers, USDX, Oil, central banks, G20, BRIC, China, petrodollar, Gold, natural resources, GNX, money supply, WTIC, IMF, OPEC, Bretton Woods
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Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by James P. Lucier, Jr ., a managing director of Capital Alpha Partners , LLC, in Washington, D.C. Lucier`s piece describes how Alaska shares its oil revenues with residents, and suggests that John McCain adopt a page from Alaska`s book to get popular support...
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I've been reading a lot of great pieces on whether or not the commodity bull market has come to an end. Here are links to some of my favorite writers: Peter Schiff (Bull) Jim Rogers (Bull) Gary North (Bear) Marc Faber (Bear) If I had to throw my hat in the ring, I'd side with Peter Schiff and...
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The fact that the price of oil has dropped considerably does not constitute any kind of "tax cut." When the price of oil increases once again, are we supposed to call it a tax increase ? How did the price of oil get singled out for such a distinction? If the prices of wheat, lumber, or cotton...
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Since the price of oil has finally broken to the downside, I've seen a lot of talk of how the "oil bubble" has finally popped. What's interesting to me is the exact opposite occured when the stock market initially broke back in 2000, and when housing prices initially broke more recently...
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With oil companies earning record profits, there have been calls for a "windfall profits" tax to be placed on them by the government. From an economic point of view, this totally ignores the meaning of profits and losses. Oil company profits are a signal ...If the marketplace could speak, it...
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The NYT has an interesting article up on Nature Conservancy's extensive holdings in the Adirondacks: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/nyregion/29adirondacks.html?ei=5087&em=&en=8d6ce0f734fb4852&ex=1193889600&pagewanted=all Nothing like ownership to incentivize environmentalists to...