Monthly Archives: August 2011

शांति

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Common Era LLC (CE) proposes the Shanti (peace) prize in recognition of the best individual contribution to sustainable global integration. This prize will terminate the Nobel prizes for the benefit of all humanity because … Continue reading

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A Short Note On US Bond Ratings

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The three credit ratings agencies have released their assessment of US creditworthiness and economic outlook. August 02, 2011, Moody’s: AAA – Outlook negative August 05, 2011, Standard & Poors (S&P): AA+, Outlook negative. August … Continue reading

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War And Peace In America

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The words “Democrats and Republicans” open the president’s book Audacity of Hope. The subtext is the frustration of a man trying to find his political identity in his second book after penning his thoughts … Continue reading

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Wilson, Truman, Kennedy, The Democrats, And The Former USSR

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The counterfactual bestselling novel by Robert Harris of the rise of the Third Reich, Fatherland, is an extraordinary work of fiction. Hitler emerges victorious in World War II and occupies Europe. The fact of … Continue reading

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The Economics Of Trust In The United States

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Clintonomics is useful as a last resort. Akin to war. At issue are two concepts since the Standard and Poors (S&P) downgrade of US debt on Friday, August 05, 2011: risk free rate of … Continue reading

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We From I: An Economic Theory Of Society

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The problem of aggregation in macroeconomics is a complicated one. Dislocated from microfoundations, John Maynard Keynes had articulated in abstraction a new framework of looking at the wealth of nations as a whole during … Continue reading

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Regionalism: Circa 776 B.C.E to 1776 C.E

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Empire in geopolitics, with fealty to an anchor power, is a region. Regions, quilts of princely states, once established, achieve a collective subconscious which keeps them together despite intermediate breakups. The courage to look … Continue reading

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Does Altruism Exist?

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Philanthropy is the love of the fellow human. It is about giving. Those who cannot give money give work. They work during the day for a wage and work on their own uncompensated time … Continue reading

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Law As A Weapon Of Politics Against Dissent: Anecdotal Evidence

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa From: Chandrashekar Tamirisa Date: August 12, 2011 5:14:24 AM EDT To: comments@nobelprize.org Subject: Law as a weapon of politics against dissent I am looking for a zero per cent loan to pay my taxes … Continue reading

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Comment on the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Statement of Tuesday, August 09, 2011

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Federal Reserve’s decision to continue its policy of extraordinary monetary easing through at least mid-2013 is indicative of the Fed’s support of the government’s decision to raise the debt ceiling over this same … Continue reading

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