Articles from November 2012

ARTICLES 17 NOV 12

ECONOMICS / BUSINESS Robert P. Murphy, dismembers Paul Krugman’s “wonkish” statement when he argued “…“what happens if there’s a loss of confidence, causing the risk premium [on US government debt] to rise? The answer is that the currency depreciates for any given domestic interest rate, increasing demand…That is, the effect on the economy is expansionary,” [...]

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ARTICLES 11 NOV 12

ECONOMICS / BUSINESS The bursting of the housing bubble may have set-off the recession, but was it eroding incentives that depressed the labor market rather than expand it, that made the recession longer and deeper than it might have otherwise been?   As an increase in the cost of capital is expected to have a [...]

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Rice County GOP voter’s Guide

The following are the endorsed candidates and tickets of the Republican National Committee, MN GOP and Rice County Republicans: PRESIDENT AND                                                             Mitt Romney and VICE PRESIDENT                                                            Paul Ryan U.S. SENATOR                                                                 Kurt Bills U.S. CONGRESS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1:                                         Allen Quist U.S. CONGRESS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 2:                                         John Kline STATE SENATE DISTRICT [...]

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