Morning Caffeine 4-11-2012

• Large denominations of United States currency – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Paul McCulley on Optimal Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix

  Paul McCulley Grew a beard! He’s in his beard phase. Should I move into my beard phase?

• Walmart’s Low Prices Bear a High Cost for America | The Economic Populist

  If you consider the opportunity cost of this lost tax revenue and the other costs, Walmart is the most expensive retailer around. You could even say that the retailer is a giant welfare program for the Waltons.

• Videos From Indonesia Following 8.7 Earthquake | ZeroHedge

  Tsunami is unlikely because sea floor moved horizontally instead of vertically

• NFIB Small Business Optimism – Business Insider

  Boy it would be worthwhile to put together this, rail, truck, and perhaps payroll tax receipts into a real time business indicator. Anybody a programmer who can pull xml files easily?

• FT Alphaville » The Chinese data choose-your-own-adventure

• Daily Kos: Dialogues with Jamie Galbraith and the MMT Job Guarantee

• Zero rupee note – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Milton Friedman Proved Wrong by Aluminum Market – Bloomberg

  Dude, I didn’t write this article yet! Why did you release it? And why did you steal my girlfriend?

• The Bogus Obamacare-Deficit Study — Daily Intel

  Tyler Cowen is the leader of the Mercatus Center. Why is he taken seriously at all?

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