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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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The fix was in

Jul 28, 2012

In Friday’s FT, former Morgan Stanley trader Douglas Keenan traces banks’ LIBOR manipulations back to 1991, when he observed, from the futures desk, LIBOR fixings come in at levels different from where he new the market to be.

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Economics and computation in the postwar period: managing scarcity

Jul 1, 2012

“We choose this stochastic structure for computational reasons. This reduces the dimension of the variables. With (such and such) alternative, the computational burden would have dramatically increased.”

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Hogarth and Soyer on the Hollow Men

Jun 30, 2012

A poem seems to be an almost perfect metaphor for the modern corporate world.