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Tag Archives: Occupy Wall Street
Sign of the Times: Occupy DC “Dismantled”
National Park Service police began slowly dismantling the Occupy DC encampment at McPherson Square on K Street early Saturday morning. Over the course of several hours, cops asked protesters to leave while authorities in hazmat suits combed the park and … Continue reading
Fareed: Niall Ferguson and Jeff Sachs Square Off on OWS
Nice rumble between Sachs and Ferguson. Well worth your time. (click here if video is not observable)
Posted in Black Swan Watch, Economics, Employment, Geopolitical, Policy, Politics, Video, Whales
Tagged Fareed Zakaria, Jeff Sachs, Niall Ferguson, Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Harvard, Columbia, & Berkeley
Here’s a piece we posted last November which has relevance to those who are camped out in lower Manhattan and their Occupy Wall Street offshoots around the country and world. We’ve changed the source of the video as the old … Continue reading
Posted in Black Swan Watch, Geopolitical, Housing, Politics
Tagged Corruption in Academic, Economists, Inside Job, Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street: End the Fed?
Wow! Take a listen to this. President Kennedy had trouble understanding monetary policy and most economists are in the same boat. We wonder how many in the OWS crowd can. Long moats in Greenwich. (click here if video … Continue reading
Posted in Black Swan Watch, Demographics, General Interest, Geopolitical, Policy, Politics
Tagged End the Fed, Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street and the Nobel Peace Prize
Tomorrow’s announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize could give the OWS movement a mega shot of caffeine Red Bull (great pun!). The Washington Post confirms our priors, Leading Nobel-guesser Kristian Berg Harpviken, the director of the Peace Research Institute in … Continue reading
Posted in Black Swan Watch, Demographics
Tagged Clash of Generations, Occupy Wall Street
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Nobel Peace Prize for Egypt’s “Google Ghandi”?
The Peace Research Institute Oslo predicts many of the cyber activists in the youth movements which led revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt earlier this year are candidates to win the Nobel Peace Price. The winner will be announced this Friday. … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Geopolitical
Tagged Google Ghandi, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Occupy Wall Street, Wael Ghonim
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Picture of the Day: Wall Street & Bull Under Assault
This picture really captures the current market and social mood. Three of New York’s finest having to guard Arturo Di Modica’s bronze sculpture of the Wall Street Bull from protestors in Bowling Green Park near Wall Street in Manhattan. The … Continue reading
Posted in Black Swan Watch, Economics, Employment, Politics
Tagged Arab Spring, Bull, Occupy Wall Street
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