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Herbert Stein

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First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Wal-Mart Stores Inc

Are Flagging Productivity Gains a Sign of a Played-Out Economy?

Bloomberg flagged that productivity gains in the US are tepid, and that’s a sign of economic weakness: Four years into an expansion, the productivity of American workers has slowed and some economists say there are few signs it will soon rebound. ... [Published naked capitalism - May 08 2013]

Entities: student loan, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Receptionist, Herbert Stein, Warren Mosler

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Drought confounds river model

Angus Goodbody's Rio Grande runoff forecast for May landed in my inbox last Thursday afternoon like some cruel joke.Has the drought really gotten so bad that we're going to see negative flow this year on the Rio Grande?Based in a Department of Agriculture ... [Published Albuquerque Journal - May 07 2013]

Entities: Drought, Water Management, Herbert Stein, Irrigation

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Apple Inc

All Crowded, Speculative Trades Unwind At Some Point

It's a basic tenet of speculative investing, said perfectly by Herbert Stein:If something cannot go on forever, it will stopSuch is the fate of any speculative endeavor whose underlying cannot produce the cash flows to support whatever valuation it trades ... [Published Seeking Alpha - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Silver, Apple Inc, Herbert Stein, Commodities

First reported Mar 23 2013 - Updated Mar 23 2013 - 1 reports

Conrad Black: The economics of bubbles, in Cyprus and here at home

Thursday’s federal budget was a commendable effort that plausibly forecasts a modest surplus in two years, along with a federal debt level that amounts to 28% of GDP (barely a quarter of where the corresponding U.S. figure will be). My own view is that ... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 23 2013]

Entities: Conrad Black, Cyprus, Fruit, Herbert Stein

First reported Mar 22 2013 - Updated Mar 22 2013 - 1 reports

American University

A Forum on the Failures & Future of the American University

ReasonThe economist Herbert Stein once said that something that can’t go on forever, won’t. That observation, sometimes called Stein’s Law, could well turn out to be the theme for the current decade. But nowhere is it truer than in higher ... [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - Mar 22 2013]

Entities: American University, Herbert Stein, Higher Education

First reported Feb 22 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 1 reports

Gold Versus Gold Miners: Has The Time Come To Flip The Switch?

Last October, among the various statements by Hugh Hendry at the annual Buttonwood gathering was this blurb by the man who is otherwise a big fan of physical gold: "I am long gold and I am short gold mining equities. There is no rationale for owning ... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 22 2013]

Entities: Mining, Divergence, Insanity, Allotment, Herbert Stein

First reported Feb 14 2013 - Updated Feb 14 2013 - 1 reports

The constant taking of the soft political option

“On October 15, the mark’s rate against the pound passed 18 milliards. On October 21, after the mark had moved in three days from 24 milliards to 80 milliards to the pound, Lord D’Abernon noted with some statistical glee that (at 60 milliards) this was ... [Published The Cobden Centre - Feb 14 2013]

Entities: Michael Lewis, Germany, Stinnes, Herbert Stein

First reported Feb 14 2013 - Updated Feb 14 2013 - 1 reports

Watching the Couples Go By

In honor of Valentine’s, we reprint a favorite from the archive: this classic meditation on love and human companionship. Herbert Stein, who passed away in 1999, was an original Slate contributor. ... [Published Slate Magazine - Feb 14 2013]

Entities: Herbert Stein

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 06 2013 - 1 reports

GLG Chief Investment Officer Warns "Brace For A Stock Market Accident"

Authored by Jamil Baz (CIO, GLG), Originally posted at The FT , Brace For A Stock Market Accident Profits and leverage are locked in a deadly embrace There is a time-honoured tradition in statistics: whipping the data until they confess. Bullish ... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: yield, Accident, Dividend, Michał Kalecki, Stock Market

First reported Jan 31 2013 - Updated Jan 31 2013 - 1 reports

Short-Term Palliatives And The 5 Terrible Tendencies Of Government

Excerpted from Seth Klarman's Baupost 2012 Letter to investors, Absent an immediate crisis - and sometimes in the face of one - governments will often struggle to meet great challenges. Michael Boskin, former chairman of George H. W. Bush’s Council ... [Published Zero Hedge - Jan 31 2013]

Entities: Michael Boskin, Herbert Stein, Ignorance

First reported Jan 28 2013 - Updated Jan 28 2013 - 1 reports

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: Are Americans “love starved?” And is it because of unrealistic expectati…

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: Are Americans “love starved?” And is it because of unrealistic expectations? Somehow, this reminds me of a great and moving essay by Herbert Stein. ... [Published Instapundit - Jan 28 2013]

Entities: Herbert Stein

First reported Jan 17 2013 - Updated Jan 17 2013 - 1 reports

How Long Can the Stock Market Defy Economic Gravity?

As the pragmatic conservative economist Herbert Stein once said, “If something cannot go on forever, it won’t.” I’ve been thinking about that saying a lot in relation to today’s bull market and the complacency with which investors seem to view it. The ... [Published The Curious Capitalist - Jan 17 2013]

Entities: Stock Market, Herbert Stein, Junk Bond, Dr. Dre, Bull Market

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Are Flagging Productivity Gains a Sign of a Pla... [Published naked capitalism - May 08 2013]
Drought confounds river model [Published Albuquerque Journal - May 07 2013]
Daytime Emmy nominees announced [Published Post Magazine - May 02 2013]
All Crowded, Speculative Trades Unwind At Some ... [Published Seeking Alpha - Apr 16 2013]
Dokken: Ben Stein’s money [Published Panama City News Herald - Apr 15 2013]
Conrad Black: The economics of bubbles, in Cypr... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 23 2013]
A Forum on the Failures & Future of the America... [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - Mar 22 2013]
Gold Versus Gold Miners: Has The Time Come To F... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 22 2013]
Watching the Couples Go By [Published Slate Magazine - Feb 14 2013]
The constant taking of the soft political option [Published The Cobden Centre - Feb 14 2013]
Spending Denialists and the Fiscal Illusion [Published REASON Online - Feb 11 2013]
GLG Chief Investment Officer Warns "Brace For A... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 06 2013]
Short-Term Palliatives And The 5 Terrible Tende... [Published Zero Hedge - Jan 31 2013]
WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW: Are Americans “love s... [Published Instapundit - Jan 28 2013]
How Long Can the Stock Market Defy Economic Gra... [Published The Curious Capitalist - Jan 17 2013]
The Secular Bear Market Will End And The World ... [Published Clusterstock - Jan 16 2013]
Forecast 2013: Unsustainability and Transition [Published The Big Picture Blog - Jan 15 2013]
Nick ‘the fibber’ Clegg faces the fibbed-to [Published The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - Jan 10 2013]

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Are Flagging Productivity Gains a Sign of a Pla... [Published naked capitalism - May 08 2013] Bloomberg flagged that productivity gains in the US are tepid, and that’s a sign of economic weakness: Four years into an expansion, the productivity of American workers has slowed and some economists say there are few signs it will soon rebound. ...
Conrad Black: The economics of bubbles, in Cypr... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 23 2013] Thursday’s federal budget was a commendable effort that plausibly forecasts a modest surplus in two years, along with a federal debt level that amounts to 28% of GDP (barely a quarter of where the corresponding U.S. figure will be). My own view is that ...
A Forum on the Failures & Future of the America... [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - Mar 22 2013] ReasonThe economist Herbert Stein once said that something that can’t go on forever, won’t. That observation, sometimes called Stein’s Law, could well turn out to be the theme for the current decade. But nowhere is it truer than in higher ...
Gold Versus Gold Miners: Has The Time Come To F... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 22 2013] Last October, among the various statements by Hugh Hendry at the annual Buttonwood gathering was this blurb by the man who is otherwise a big fan of physical gold: "I am long gold and I am short gold mining equities. There is no rationale for owning ...
The constant taking of the soft political option [Published The Cobden Centre - Feb 14 2013] “On October 15, the mark’s rate against the pound passed 18 milliards. On October 21, after the mark had moved in three days from 24 milliards to 80 milliards to the pound, Lord D’Abernon noted with some statistical glee that (at 60 milliards) this was ...