Good-bye financial repression, hello financial crash

Financial Depth – Financial Repression Linkage

financial depth – financial repression linkage

Good bye "lactic acid"; hello lactate and acid.

TO THE EDITOR: I benefited from reading this Point:Counterpoint discussion (2, 3) and some of the papers cited therein and was shocked to learn that the construct of “lactic acidosis” has been questioned before (4). However, it is clear (from Ref. 1) that the reduction of pyruvate to lactate consumes two protons, and as Robergs et al. (4) have said, the production of lactate retards the develop...

Bye, bye blockbusters, hello niche busters.

time for a great white shark named Bruce. A mechanical beast weighing 1.5 tonnes, Bruce was the star of Jaws, a movie that grossed US$260 million in the United States, ushering Hollywood into the summer blockbuster era. Like the movie industry, the pharmaceutical sector has in recent decades come to rely on annual blockbusters to drive profits. But it appears the blockbuster model is broken. Un...

Good-byE old, hello new in teaching economics

Most recently, however, there is evidence of a turn-around in the number of degrees awarded in economics. Intriguingly, along with this recent increase in U.S. degrees awarded in economics, there has been an increase in academic economists’ interest in their teaching, Becker (2003, forthcoming). For instance, when the receipt of economics degrees were at a relative high of 2.3 percent of all U....