"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." —Douglas Adams
Fed Pres Fisher is also speaking on the economy today and the Federal Reserve and one comment specifically stands out. He said that a goal of the Fed is to maintain the purchasing power of the US dollar. To quantify the success of this or lack thereof, one should look at the rate of increase in the CPI to measure how much a like basket of goods cost over different periods of time. Using Bloomberg data going back to 1920 (as far back as it goes and the Federal Reserve was established in 1913), the purchasing power of the US$...
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 am
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July 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Sorry, but this iPaper article does not come load up on Opera or Firefox
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BR: Works on Firefox for a mac . .
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I have Fireofx 3.01 and it loads OK. But I have an account (free) at Scribd. Maybe it would help.
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Print does not come right. Where is the PDF version?
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I got it
July 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I’m sorry, I still don’t see the PDF version. Does anyone else see it?
July 4th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
1. open scribd account (takes about 1 min)
2. save doc
3. print pdf
4. very cool
July 5th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Thanks Mark.
July 16th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
A more readable version is also online at the Vanity Fair web site:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/aig200908