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Sunday Night Futures

May 20th, 2013
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Monday: • At 8:30 AM ET, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index for April will be released. This is a composite index of other data. Weekend: • Schedule for Week of May 19th The Asian markets are green tonight with the Nikkei up 1.0%, and Shanghai Composite up 0.2%.

Will the International Energy Agency's oil forecast be wrong again?

May 20th, 2013
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The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, it is worth reviewing the agency's record.

Report: Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup "nearly halt foreclosure sales"

May 20th, 2013
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From Scott Reckard at the LA Times: 3 big banks nearly halt foreclosure sales after U.S. tweaks orders Sales of homes in foreclosure by Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. ground nearly to a halt after regulators revised their orders on treatment of troubled borrowers during the 60 days before they lose their homes.

Helicopter money as a policy option

May 20th, 2013
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Lucrezia Reichlin, Adair Turner, Michael Woodford, 20 May 2013With persistently weak economic conditions becoming the norm in Europe, economists are considering increasingly unconventional policy options. One tool that has yet to be taken out of storage is ‘helicopter money’, i.e. the overt monetary financing of government deficits.

"A random tour through some scaling laws"

May 19th, 2013
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"This, of course, is where the mystery of the game of dimensional analysis [pdf] lies: which variables should be invited to the party?" 

Warnings

May 19th, 2013
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This week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu flew to Russia in an attempt to dissuade Putin from selling Syria the S-300, a long range surface-to-air missile system.

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