EPJ Week In Review - Week Ending 1/16/15

Below you'll find everything that has been published on EPJ for the week ended Friday January 16, 2015. The hottest posts for each day are highlighted in red.

Friday 1/16/15

• Rick Rule on Oil and Peter Schiff on Switzerland Ditching Its Support of the Euro
• Understanding the Swiss Central Bank Move and Its Implications for the Rest of 2015: A Guide for Dummies
• On the Frontier of the Oil Bust: Schlumberger to Eliminate 9,000 Jobs
• Euro is Down 1.5% Against the Dollar This Morning; Gold Continues to Climb
• Mohamed El-Erian: Implications of the SNB Decision Extend Far Beyond Switzerland
• The Things You Can Learn On Your Honeymoon If You Continue to Read the EPJ Daily Alert
• Breaking Down the Consumer Price Index
• New Mercatus Center Scholar Thinks Swiss Central Bank Move Was Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
• The Truth About Ronald Reagan Fanboys
• Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a Pending Disaster

Thursday 1/15/15

• Russia to Ditch US Dollar in Favor of the Ruble
• WaPo Laughs at Libertarian Bitcoin Fanboys
• Billions of Dollars in Oil Projects Put on Hold
• Small Business Supports Elvira
• Swiss Central Bank Pulls Plug on Euro Support
• What You Can Learn From the Richest Man in Asia
• The One Secret For Doing A TED Talk (Or Any Talk)
• HOT Foreign Exchange Brokerage Firm Shuts Down Because of Swiss National Bank Policy Move; Does Not Have the Ability to Reimburse Losses From Trades Not Exited
• The Geniuses at Goldman Sachs Blow Up Some Client Accounts
• Now Indications Saxo Bank Clients Are Going to Take a Hit Because of Swiss Central Bank Move
• Now, FXCM Reporting Major Losses

Wednesday 1/14/15

• Bitcoin Collapse Continues; Breaks Under $200
• Jim Rogers Claims Russian ‘Consultant’ Tried to Extort Him
• Crude Oil Inventory Surges to 80-Year High
• The Growth of the Elderly Workforce and Its Causes
• Yes, Some Companies Are Cutting Hours In Response To Obamacare
• Bitcoin's Trackability May Result in Conviction of Ross Ulbricht
• "Bitcoin Replacing the Dollar is a Pipe Dream"
• More Support for Austrian Business Cycle Theory
• A Look Back at Bitcoin Fanboy Commentary
• Mentions of Jobs as Top U.S. Problem at Six-Year Low...

Tuesday 1/13/15

• This Furniture Store Will Give You Your Money Back If Oil Reaches $85 A Barrel in 2015
• Bitcoin Price Crashes Below $250
• WATCH OUT BELOW Oil and Gas Taxes as a Share of Total State Taxes
• U.S. Economic Confidence Index Continues to Climb
• The Basics on the Oil Price Collapse
• Paul Krugman Has Become an Embarrassment to the Economics Profession
• Koch Brothers Satellite Moves Further Down the Road of Federal Reserve Money Printing Advocacy
• A State-By-State Breakdown Of The US Oil Rig Drop
• "Fear that The Eagle Ford Shale Play is Going to Crater"
• The Manipulated Boom is On: More Data Points

Monday 1/12/15

• Sowell vs. Kristof on Race
• Greece’s Leftist Syriza Party (Which Wants to Default on Debt) Holds the Lead in Polls
• Here They Go Again—-Subprime Delinquencies Rising In Autoland
• The Plunging Oil Rig Count
• 10 States That Will Be Most Hurt by Falling Oil Prices
• The Boom is On (Retail Sales Edition)
• 2014 Was The Best Year For Jobs Since 1999
• An Historical Look at Price Inflation and the Future Price Inflation Prognosis
• Oil Tycoon Harold Hamm's Ex-Wife Wants More Money After Cashing $975 Million Check

Sunday 1/11/15

• 3 Ways Steve Jobs Made Meetings Productive
• Major Bitcoin Scientist Sounds Nervous About Bitcoin
• Obama Proposes Free Community College
• Crude Being Stored at Sea in Anticipation of the Eventual End of the Oil Glut
• Paul Krugman vs. Walter Block and Economic Influence
• Top 10% of Income Earners Pay 70% of Fed Income Taxes...
• Murray Rothbard on The Gold Standard Before the Civil War
• Elizabeth Warren: Class Warrior With Heap Big Wampum

Saturday 1/10/15

• The Fed Manipulated Post-2008 Financial Crisis Stock Market Boom
• The Fed Money Printing Boom and the Job Growth Picture
• Is Jennifer Lawrence Underpaid?
• Former MIT Professor ‘Robs Bank,’ Films ‘Heist’
• Venezuelans Throng to Grocery Stores Under Military Protection
• American (False) Confidence in the Economy Soars
• Record-Breaking Pay and Perks for Fed Bureaucrats