ClimateGate : Hacked Emails unveil questionable practices - WSJ.com
In several of the emails, climate researchers discussed how to arrange for favorable reviewers for papers they planned to publish in scientific journals. At the same time, climate researchers at times appeared to pressure scientific journals not to publish research by other scientists whose findings they disagreed with.
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November 23, 2009
ClimateGate: Washington Post
ClimateGate reveals top UN IPCC scientists ‘discussing how they can pressure an academic journal not to accept the work of climate skeptics with whom they disagree’
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November 23, 2009
Grand emprunt : tout à l'esbrouffe !
Sous l’emballage séduisant, ce Grand emprunt n’est qu’un budget bis qui ne fera qu’accroître le déficit sans relancer la croissance.
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November 21, 2009
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November 21, 2009
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November 21, 2009
The First Crisis Of 2010
New Federal Accounting Standards revision 167 will be effective Jan. 1, 2010. In essence, it’s a new accounting rule that will force financials to bring bad, off-balance sheet assets onto their books… thus a potential trigger for more Wall Street carnage. This is likely one reason why banks have been hoarding cash and jacking rates on business credit cards - for creditworthy customers - up to 30% with no advance warning.
5 days ago
November 19, 2009
Joseph Gyourko : 5 myths about homeownership
Take a moment to make sure you’re not in the housing market for the wrong reasons. We’ve found that several of our most cherished beliefs about the value of a home don’t hold true
6 days ago
November 19, 2009
Barney Frank on crack ? The new demonomics...
“Note however, the thought process of Barney Frank: We have to keep selling houses to people who cannot afford them in order to keep home prices from falling”
1 week ago
November 18, 2009
How A Government Bailout Created Today's Commercial Real Estate Armaggeddon
The MIT Real Estate Center said that commercial property prices has dropped almost 42% over the past 2 years. As a result of that drop, about fifty-five percent the $1.4 trillion commercial mortgages that will mature in the next five years are underwater. The delinquency rate for commercial mortgages climbed to 5% in October. A year ago the delinquency rate was just 0.77%.
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November 17, 2009
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November 17, 2009
Changement climatique: La méthode scientifique pervertie
La gigantesque et triste farce mondiale qu’est l’affaire du réchauffement climatique pose la question de l’évolution de la méthode scientifique au 21ème siècle, tout particulièrement lorsque des décisions politiques lourdes de conséquences peuvent en découler.
1 week ago
November 16, 2009
Monetizing the housing debt
If the founding fathers knew that we had created yet another central bank and, not only was it printing up money to fund government spending but it was buying up home loans, they’d roll over in their graves
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November 14, 2009