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Monetary Policy Week In Review – July 7, 2012
Bank Supervisors Propose How To Gauge Intraday Liquidity
Louis C.K. Battles Ticket Scalpers Using Basic Economics: He’s Increasing Supply By Adding Shows
Coal, Gas Shares Of Electricity Equal For 1st Time
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Monetary Policy Week In Review – July 7, 2012

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 11:20 PM PDT

The past week in monetary policy saw interest rate decisions by 10 central banks around the world, with four cutting rates, most notably the People’s Bank of China and the European Central Bank. The cut by the Danish central bank, which is fighting to keep down the crown currency, brought its key rate to negative.
The other six central banks left rates unchanged, but the Bank of England expanded its asset purchasing program.

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Bank Supervisors Propose How To Gauge Intraday Liquidity

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 10:25 PM PDT

Banks must have enough liquid funds to make payments during extreme stress in financial markets and proposed indicators will allow supervisors to monitor banks’ ability to live up to their obligations.
The Basel III banking regulations, created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crises, raised both the quality and quantity of banks' capital. The reforms also included minimum standards for short-term liquidity but not intraday … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Louis C.K. Battles Ticket Scalpers Using Basic Economics: He’s Increasing Supply By Adding Shows

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 02:27 PM PDT

Comedian Louis C.K. is battling ticket scalpers (see recent related CD post here) for his upcoming national tour using some basic principles of economics: he’s increasing the supply of tickets by adding shows to meet fan demand. The market conditions that allow ticket scalpers brokers like Seat Geek and StubHub to sell tickets above face value are: a) ticket prices that are too low relative to the true market price, and/or b) a supply of tickets that is too low, relative to … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Coal, Gas Shares Of Electricity Equal For 1st Time

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:54 PM PDT

From the EIA website today – “Recently published electric power data show that, for the first time since EIA began collecting the data, generation from natural gas-fired plants is virtually equal to generation from coal-fired plants, with each fuel providing 32% of total generation (see chart above). In April 2012, preliminary data show net electric generation from natural gas was 95.9 million megawatthours, only slightly below generation from coal, at 96.0 million megawatthours.”

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“Markets” In Everything: Free Online Textbooks

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:20 PM PDT

The rising cost of textbooks—along with the rise of easy-to-use publishing tools online—has helped drive the popularity of open-source materials and professors' taking a do-it-yourself approach to textbook publishing. The Chronicle of Higher Education features three professors who wrote their own textbooks and are distributing them … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Week Ahead: Earnings Season Kicks Off

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:37 PM PDT

06/06/12 Earnings season will begin on Monday, July 7th. Alcoa, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo are amongst the companies reporting quarterly … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards