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vonk
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Can anyone recomend a free online game that doesn't require downloads? I enjoyed the galactic trading game, physics game and HHGTTG game that were posted here and thought someone might have a suggestion.

Thanks.

Edit: Has anyone played Tribal Wars? Is it worth 5 bucks a month?

[ August 20, 2008, 09:47 PM: Message edited by: vonk ]

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Have you tried Kingdom of Loathing?
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Oh yeah! I completely forgot about it. Thanks. Now I have to play Tribal Wars for a month though. FYI, maybe not worth the 5 bucks.

EditL Gah! Forgot my KoL login.

[ August 20, 2008, 11:27 PM: Message edited by: vonk ]

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I just found a poster named Rivka in the Tribal Wars forum. Is i the same rivka?

[ August 20, 2008, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: vonk ]

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Nope.
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Are there any Hebrew speakers willing to help me look up an email of a prof at Ben Gurion university? The English version of the website doesn't seem to extend that far.
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In economics, referring to monetary policy and affecting money supply, what do the terms "PR", "DR", and "Sell/Buy" refer to? As in, to increase money supply, you decrease PR and DR, and Sell. But what does that mean?
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Those aren't standard terminology for anything I'm familiar with. They might be references to some of the terms in basic equations governing money, which you can find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity_theory_of_money
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Thanks for the response. The link is way beyond my economics prowess at this point. I think this may be a case of my professor making up abbreviations that have no obvious connection with anything in the text book or online. Yay.
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Did the professor write any equations using those terms?
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I don't know how to do the symbols here, but i was given:

(lower)PR, (lower)DR, Buy => (raise)MS => (lower)r* => (raise)I => (raise)GDP => (raise)AD

This is given as the monetary policy solution to fixing a recessionary gap.

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r* might be the real interest rate, increasing which would raise the Investment rate I. I'm not sure what the AD after GDP would be. MS is obviously money supply, and I'm now guessing that PR is Prime Rate, DR is Discount Rate, and Buy might refer to how much the Fed is buying with open market operations (which would be how the Fed raises the Discount Rate, which would be what raises the Prime Rate, so the litany of all three is redundant).

I'm assuming this is just an example of a toy policy, not him on a tear about how he thinks things should be approached.

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Your assumption is correct. And Prime Rate and Discount Rate are what I am looking for! It's not covered in the chapter we are currently on, so I didn't see it. Your help is greatly appreciated.

And AD is Aggragate Demand.

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quote:
Originally posted by Eaquae Legit:
Are there any Hebrew speakers willing to help me look up an email of a prof at Ben Gurion university? The English version of the website doesn't seem to extend that far.

Missed this! I assume that by now you've found it? [Wink]
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Isn't there somewhere you can watch House debates/proceedings live? I thought there was but my googlefu is failing.
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http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

There's this.

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If my husband gets a job (so our income like triples), how long does he need to work before we can refinance our house? When we bought the house, he was working so the income thing wasn't an issue. And with student loans, we have never had a problem paying our bills.
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Thanks scifibum. That's great.
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The financial aid department at my university is requiring a non-filer form form from the IRS because I didn't have any income last year and didn't file a tax return. I'm browing the IRS forms index with little luck. Does anyone know what this is?
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As a layman, here's my reply: you might just need your college's standard Declaration of Non-Filing Status Form. If they're demanding IRS proof that you filed nothing, you'll need Form 4506-T, the Request for Transcript of Tax Return, and will need to check the "Verification of Non-Filing" checkbox.
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That's the first form I've seen with a non-filing option, so I guess that's it. Thank you.
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