Links for 2012-02-04
Still losing the unemployment war - Mohamed A. El-Erian The end of lone-wolf capitalism - The Washington Post Messages from the January Employment Release - Econbrowser Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation - Robert Stavins Local Governments Still a...
Fed Watch: Good News on Employment
Tim Duy: Good News on Employment, by Tim Duy: With only a minimal drag from the government sector, the February employment report shined on the back of a solid gain in private sector hiring: The last couple of months look...
Dean Baker: Strong Job Growth
With all the cheering about the jobs report this morning showing 243,000 jobs created last month and a fall in the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent, I thought it might be useful to present a contrary voice (especially since I'm...
NBER EF&G Research Meeting
I am here today: NBER EF&G Research Meeting Nir Jaimovich and Guido Lorenzoni, Organizers February 3, 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco PROGRAM 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Gary Gorton, Yale University Guillermo Ordonez, Yale University Collateral Crises...
Fed Watch: How This Gets Even Uglier
Tim Duy: How This Gets Even Uglier, by Tim Duy: At this risk of beating a dead horse, I reiterate that I don't see how the European situation comes to a happy conclusion. Conditions in Greece appear to be deteriorating...
Links for 2012-02-03
S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks - NYTimes.com I Still Don’t Get Why the ECB Hiked Rates - Rebecca Wilder Which Romney Is Romney? - Brad DeLong Sociology of knowledge: Berger - Dan Little Chris Giles on UK...
How Did the Fed Get Things So Wrong?
[Busy day today -- teaching then travel -- so another quick "hit and run" post.] A column from a couple of weeks ago: How Did the Fed Get Things So Wrong?, by Mark Thoma: The public’s faith in the Fed’s...
"On Wilson’s Muddled Defense of the Top 1 Percent"
Larry Mishel reacts to a recent commentary in the Washington Post on income inequality that "belittles the need to tax the rich more": On Wilson’s muddled defense of the top 1%, by Larry Mishel: Last week, the Washington Post published...
Will Tax Increases to Close the Deficit Harm Economic Growth?
Tax increases will be needed to close the budget gap: Will Tax Increases to Close the Deficit Harm Economic Growth?, by Mark Thoma, CBS News: Politicians want you to believe tax increases will kill the economy. They won't. COMMENTARY The...
"Racial Segregation is Still a Reality"
Richard Green follows up on his post Good news and bad news on race and housing highlighting the Glaeser and Vigdor result that all-white neighborhoods are a thing of the past: Rolf Pendall: Racial Segregation is Still a Reality, by...
Links for 2012-02-02
Chicago Fed Blames Baby Boomers for Labor Force Drop - WSJ The Limits of Consistency and Rigor (video) - John Kay Fundamental Fiscal Challenge: Rising Health Care Costs - CBO Treasury Ponders Negative Interest Rates - NYTimes.com Can Reductions in...
