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Badger Cull Proposals Rejected The formal policy announcement is due on Monday 7 July. The NFU is disappointed by the decision and has accused the Government of lacking leadership. The organisation plans a demonstration outside Parliament next week. ... - more

Fair Treatment of Policy Owners I found this excellent paper from Bank Negara, Malaysia. It explained the method of using asset share to ensure that policy owners get cash values that are fairly computed: http://www.bnm.gov.my/files/publication/dgi/en/2004/08.box2.pdf. - more

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Video: Monetary Policy is now political Monetary Policy is now political with NZ First and Labour eyeing up the Reserve Bank Act and want wider focus and lower rates. - more

Das Monetary Policy On June 25th, the Fed made no changes in its key interest rates and issued a statement that underscored how narrow their room for maneuver had become. Caught between the opposing forces of economic contraction and inflation, ... - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by Dave If I can be so bold as to suggest that the entire system needs overhauling, rather than looking for scapegoats in the mess we (and the rest of the world) find oursevles currently in. High taxes with no lateral thinking about how to ... - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by ... The problems lie elsewhere: excessive government spending and cost-raising regulation, slumping productivity growth, and the Reserve Bank’s misjudgments over the last cycle that you documented very well in an earlier blog. - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by ... No explanation from you on how current monetary policy is going to solve this problem. The way the economy is at the moment is completely unbalanced and unsustainable. If we keep going the way we are now the NZD will crash anyway. ... - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by ... Bernard. We must be coming up to an election because otherwise the Nats could have leaped on the fact that repeatedly its been stated that government spending has been a huge driver of inflation, unfortunately all those with their ... - more

Google’s Policy on Link Attribute Inheritance He says I’m welcome to get more links that he thinks Google would trust more (by the way Matt, your blog links to the site too…does Google trust your site?). Just bustin on ya a bit Matt. But seriously folks, if you buy a site, ... - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by ... The government wants cheap affordable housing but dosnt want a house bubble to collapse. It wants low interest rates but behaves in ways that create high interest rates. It wants high wages but over regulates and over taxes to create ... - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by ... And just to note the ECB put its rates UP last night (confirming a recent trend from central banks, Indonesia moved up the other day, the Fed. must now be nervously eying the mess they have got themselves in, with a $ falling off the ... - more

Comment on Opinion: I smell blood in the monetary policy water by ... Really excellent piece Bernard. Like you I fear the consequences on the Forex markets if inflation targeting is abandoned in its present form. - more

My NDA Policy ~ I have decided to starting signing them! I have refused to sign NDAs for a number of reasons in the past (well covered in this blog). Of course I have mentioned before why keeping your idea secret creates a real incentive for someone to steal it, but assuming you MUST keep ... - more

Is Medicaid Really Better than Private Insurance? A study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) claims that Medicaid and SCHIP deliver the same care at a lower cost than private insurance (the study ignored marketing and enrollment costs). Policy conclusion: Enrolling ... - more

OH-15: Mary Jo Kilroy Knows More About Energy Policy Than Glenn Beck ... much oil that it will make ANWR and the outer Continental Shelf look like a drop in the bucket. Isn't it great that the next Congresswoman from the Ohio 15th knows more about energy policy than a nationally syndicated CNN broadcaster? - more

Fiscal Policy Instruments for Reducing Congestion and Atmospheric ... [Abstract] This paper reviews the literature on the fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport sector externalities. The findings show that congestion charges would reduce vehicle traffic by 9 to 12 percent and ... - more

The New Company Has a Blog Policy You may not use your blog to disclose Company’s confidential information. Protecting the confidential information of our employees, customers, partners, and suppliers is also important. Do not mention them in your blog without their ... - more

Policy Archive There seems to be far more policy-related than methodological content. And quantity of materials is miniscule compared to GS (you are more likely to find something on “cap and dividend� in GS than in Policy Archive). ... - more

Change to Qipit Fax Policy So, after studying the faxing behavior of our user base, we determined that the vast majority of our users do not send more than 5 individual faxes per week, which is the basis of our 5 faxes per user per week policy. ... - more

Thinking Twice Before Settling A Life Insurance Policy Jane Bryant Quinn wrote an article in the June 22, 2008 Washington Post that was a pretty fair summary of the benefits and caveats associated with an insured’s contemplating a life settlement of his life insurance policy. ... - more

BE ADVISED THAT THIS BLOG'S STRICT POLICY AGAINST MAKING FUN OF NAMES ...also extends to names of car manufacturers. (Thanks to Janice Gelb) - more

Federal Education Policy Needs a New Direction (National Education ... Education policy needs a new direction. On Wednesday, the National Education Association unveiled a plan to transform all public schools by the year 2020 through redefining the federal role in education. As reauthorization [...] - more

Wal-Mart Defender To Direct Obama’s Economic Policy (By Josh Gerstein, The New York Sun) Just days after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Obama is naming as his economic policy director an economist who has clashed with critics of Wal-Mart by defending the ... - more

Register for Mr Green Preview Mr Green is a corporate blog. We have a corporate blog policy. Mr Green's blog policy is licensed under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, but also for some commercial use. We have disclosed the reasons why we blog in our blog ... - more