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    Creating Businesses: Exploring Possibilities & Impact

    The amount of money is not necessarily fixed; also, if real GDP increases its not just a redistribution of the resources within the economy, but actually more output=income=expenditure
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    The Paradox of Choice: Is More Choice Better?

    Here are some videos from the TED talks about choice, decisions, rationality and happiness: Dan Gilbert, social psychologist - "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4flnuxNV4"s" & "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTO_dZUvbJA"" Dan Ariely, behavioral economist -...
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    What are the popular/very useful mathematical models for principles in economics?

    Here are some of the basic ones with pretty graphics Microeconomics: demand/supply profit maximization indifference curves & budget constraint utility function Edgeworth's box Macroeconomics: the classic macroeconomic model Keynes: the Keynesian cross, IS-LM, Mundell-Fleming model...
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    Speculative Attack: Understanding Currency Attacks & Profits

    Ah, ok, sorry. :rolleyes: I meant to refer to the currency reserves. Heheee. In the case of sterilisation operations, the domestic authorities would actually trade the bonds in the same direction of the trading of the currency reserves.
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    New LHC monitoring portal LIVE DATA

    wow... i had never before acknowledged this fierce side of physicists. :approve: i like it.
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    Speculative Attack: Understanding Currency Attacks & Profits

    Yes. Consider an exogenous, asymmetric shock that causes a trade deficit. The agent (speculator) will try to buy out the bank's foreign reserves. A currency crisis occurs when the government can't bring up their currency (they can't prevent the devaluation/depreciation) by means of increasing...
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    Have you tried hypnotism/does it work?

    im a girl :P i wonder, even if i don't drink is that thing going to stay with me forever inside my mind?
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    Schools Masters degree and PhD restrictions for a specific college degree.

    Hi! Thanks for the reply. So, in theory, all (or most?) masters may accessible with any college degree, and under the restrictions that the department imposes? For example, someone in physics>psychology... or finance>biology, etc?
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    Schools Masters degree and PhD restrictions for a specific college degree.

    Hello! How do I know which degrees grant me elegible to study a masters degree on a different study branch? For example, neuroscience, is it restricted to certain degrees? Or, is it possible to attend a special program to certify the credits needed for a particular specialization degree?
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    From an evolutionary perspective, why do women have bosoms?

    I agree with what most men here say about the butt and hips. I am a girl, and I like men a lot, but I have dated girls. Well, I used to think like most women about being skinny... But not anymore after this girl... we were at the pool and I borrowed her a bathing suit. I was lying on my chair...
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    Have you tried hypnotism/does it work?

    I haven't drinked these days, probably because I am at my parents house... today I had the option to go back to the city where I go to college this weekend, but rather did not because my gf broke up with her bf... and I predict heavy drinking involved. Its sad how I fit into the category of...
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    Have you tried hypnotism/does it work?

    When I said "it may be part of my alcoholism but...", I thought about this possibility only after I read the posts in this thread. Obviously, drunktexting is pathetic. This is the first time I do this kind of things; to be fair, only after cerain event, and only towards a particular person. I...
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    Its amazing how well it will place the concept of existence and everness within time and space. Its incredible how some poems will stay for us forever, and we will actually recite from heart. This poem made me remember a verse from "Poem XX" of Neruda: "es tan corto el amor... y es tan...
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    By the way, you have probably seen this already, I think this kinda counts as science poetry... 'A Glorious Dawn' Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking
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