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클라우드 서비스를 경매하는 아마존 |
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| 아마존(Amazon)의 클라우드 컴퓨팅 부서는 이베이(eBay) 방식의 경매 서비스를 시작할 준비를 하고 있다. 이는 사용자들이 사용하지 않는 가상서버 용량을 경매하는 것으로, 어쩌면 고객들이 아마존의 일래스틱 컴퓨트 클라우드(Elastic Compute Cloud)에서 운용하는 애플리케이션 비용을 낮춰줄 수 있을 것이다.<br> |
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The End of the "End |
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| People who are spreading fear about the world running out of oil are either trying to distort the markets, or they fail to understand the underlying realities of the business that delivers gasoline to the pumps and petroleum products to nearly every niche in our modern economy. |
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Inflation Remains a |
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| Many Americans assume that inflation is rising. They fear that the recent increase in commodity prices will lead to higher finished goods producer prices and then higher consumer prices. This fear is intensified because people tend to notice when prices go up for products they buy most often.
As economist A. Gary Shilling points out in a recent commentary, such “widespread fears of inflation are understandable. Historically, inflation is a wartime phenomenon when government spending is huge, while deflation reigns in peacetime. Still, the nation suffered a uniquely long 60 years of war, which started with rearmament in the late 1930s, was followed by World War II, which promptly gave way to the Cold War that was augmented by the War on Poverty. So, most Americans have never experienced anything but inflation, which they believe is the way God made the world.” |
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인플레이션, 실업, 그리고 필립스 곡 |
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| 필립스 곡선(혹은 필립스 커브)에 따르면 ‘실업률이 낮을 때, 인플레이션이 높고, 그 반대도 마찬가지’다. 연방준비이사회는 여전히 이 사고를 기반으로 정책을 결정한다. 그러나 실업률과 인플레이션의 상관관계에 대해 경험적 증거는 무엇을 말하고 있는가? 이 경험적 증거들이 의미하는 바는 무엇일까? 통화 정책과 그 결과로 파생되는 인플레이션 부문에 어떤 일이 일어날 것인가? |
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Think of Real Estate |
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| If you want to make money in real estate over the next decade, plan on buying a vacation or resort home. Currently, 6 percent of all homes sold in the U.S. are vacation homes. While the percentage is small, it is growing faster than the overall market for residential real estate. In 2003, 445,000 vacation homes were sold, the highest number ever. This was a 24 percent increase from 2001, the National Association of Realtors reported. |
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