Below you'll find everything that has been published on EPJ for the week ended Friday November 28, 2014. The hottest posts for each day are highlighted in red.
- OPEC Decides Against Production Cuts
- FOR SALE Bankster Townhouse: $8 Million
- New Supersonic Jet to Travel from New York to LA in 2.5 Hours
- This is What Happens When You Put All Kinds of Restrictions on Employment
- Prepare for Lower Gasoline Prices: The Crude Oil Plunge Following OPEC's Decision Not to Cut Prices
- Thanksgiving Online Sales Up 20.1%
- Breaking Down the 2015 US Workforce
- Get a Degree in Drones: Earn $100,000 a Year
- Financial Terrorists On The Road—–Krugman And Rogoff Peddling Toxic Advice
- James Watson to Sell Nobel Prize Medal
- The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
- Top Citigroup Economist Attacks Swiss Gold Referendum
- The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
- In Your Thanksgiving Face
- Coupons, Coupons and More Coupons
- The State of Federal Reserve Money Manipulations
- Oil Break-Even Prices
- 8 Steps to Finding Your Next Job
Wednesday 11/26/14
- David Stockman: Why Crony Capitalism Will Be Hard To Uproot
- Housing Price to Rent Ratio
- Amazon Cuts Fire Phone Price Ahead of Holidays
- Talking Turkey
- Angelina Jolie Attacks 'Mansion Tax' Plan
- The Daughter of a Bankster Wants Tips on Finding Crimes
- How Much of Your Thanksgiving Meal Will Have Been Spent on Politics This Year?
- Go Ahead Keep Raising the Minimum Wage: Here Comes DyRoS, the Humanoid Robot
- Tyler Cowen on the Swiss Gold Referendum
- "The Shale Revolution Doesn't Work At $80"
- Prime Time for Ferguson
- PETER SCHIFF: All eyes should now be focused on the Swiss voters
- Exploding Military Spending in Africa
- Tim Geithner's Incredible Eye for Talent
- The U.S. Has Seen the Strongest Six-Month Expansion in GDP in More Than a Decade BUT...
- It Has Only Begun: Nearly 120 Protests over Ferguson Decision Planned
- Venture Capital is Pouring Money into Minimum Wage Law Defeating Robots
- Is Milton Friedman the Direct Cause of the Current Crazed Fed "Inflation Targeting"?
- The People's Republic of San Francisco is Now Micro-Managing Employee Schedules of Chain Stores
- The Attorney General Nominee as Bandit
- Marxist Receives Writing Award (It's not what you think)
- Does Paul Krugman Believe He Has Conquered Death?
- Industries with the Highest Employment Concentrations: Large Metro Areas
- Peter Schiff: Why Gold Will Rise And Exceed Previous Highs; Destroys Inflationist Advocates
- New Bill Passed: Did This Just Happen in the Land of the Free?
- For the Paul Krugman File
- Is Bitcoin "Creator" Satoshi Nakamoto an NSA Agent?
- What Kind of Specializations Do Female Hard Science PhD Candidates Focus On?
- Gary North on Karl Marx
- How Janet Napolitano is Using University of California Students as Pawns in a Money Power Play
- How Government Officials are Using Bank Regulations to Shutdown Industries
- Walter Block: The Errors of Friedman, Coase & Buchanan
- 30 Buildings That Are Going to Radically Change the NYC Skyline
- The Cleveland Financial Stress Index
- The First Female Fed Inflationist is Dead
- The New Real Estate Bubble: A 275-Square-Foot Microflat in Hong Kong Sold for $722,000
- Company Unveils RocketSkates
- Is There Really Much Difference Between The Two Political Parties?
- European Parliament Call for the Breakup of Google
- Ron Paul on Obamacare and the “Stupid” People
- Interesting Research Using Twitter; The Unemployed Get Up Late And Can't Spell
- What a Ukrainian Financial Meltdown Might Look Like
- HOT Peter Schiff Responds to Attack from Paul Krugman
Hunter Biden & The Carlyle Group: Ukrainian Gasbags
ReplyDeleteBoston Globe reported:
(Vice President Joe) Biden and his wife stayed at the home of Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein and ate a Thanksgiving feast prepared by dinner prepared by Bill Puder, chef at Faregrounds restaurant on the island.
I'll venture the conversation drifted to Ukrainian gas and how Carlyle's energy infrastructure can help Europe free itself of Russian dependency. USAID came forward to guarantee loans for companies developing energy in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. One such firm has a young Biden on its board of directors.
What was under the PEU serving platter at Mr. Rubenstein's Abrams Point compound? Fortunately, the last four Congresses pardoned carried interest taxation. Now that's service.
http://peureport.blogspot.com/2014/05/hunter-biden-carlyle-group-ukrainian.html
VP Biden Eats Carlyle Group Turkey
ReplyDeletehttp://peureport.blogspot.com/2014/11/vp-biden-eats-carlyle-group-turkey.html
ReplyDeleteFailing to Rise to the Challenge What the FDA should learn from Ebola. Dec 1, 2014, Vol. 20, No. 12
A recent example of the FDA’s indefensible inconsistencies is its October decision to demand more data yet again—without clear, science-based standards—for companies seeking approval for several new drugs that should be available now to patients with the fatal disease of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
What makes the muscular dystrophy pronouncements worse is that there are signs that they are driven by the FDA’s worst cultural tendencies: retaliation behind closed doors, “leveling the playing field” for competing companies by slowing down the company in the lead, and improperly relying on outside advisers with a strong financial interest in the outcome of its decisions.
As the new Congress establishes its oversight priorities, this shameful mess should be high on its list.
The FDA should learn from its mistakes. It needs to be more proactive with guidance on the standards for approval of drugs for Ebola and other tropical diseases, more transparent about the safety and efficacy of investigational drugs for Ebola, and more understanding about why randomized trials for rare diseases are often not feasible. When it comes to children dying of muscular dystrophy, the FDA needs to show more of the urgency it displayed when approving investigational Ebola drugs for heroic public health workers.
Michael Astrue is a former commissioner of Social Security and a former HHS general counsel.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/failing-ris-challenge_819713.html?page=2