Economics Roundtable
The Problem - I
Calculated Risk has the clearest picture of the problem we face.
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The Problem - II
Calculated Risk adds the the clearest picture of the housing tailspin.
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Special Topic 8/4/10
This week, the Roundtable will feature a special listing for reaction to the payroll employment figures from ADP on Wednesday and the BLS on Friday.
ADP: +42,000
BLS: -131,000/+71,000
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Special Topics 6/28/10
This week, the Roundtable will feature special listings for reaction to Wednesday's
CBO budget projections and the
payroll employment figures
from ADP on Wednesday and the BLS on Friday.
ADP: +13,000
BLS: -125,000/+83,000
CBO: Take your pick.
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Current Economic Conditions 6/5/10
James Hamilton summarizes the situation.
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Economic Principals (David Warsh)
So much for summer vacation. It’s back to work for Economic Principals. Doing what? Plowing through the torrent of literature of the 2007-09 crash, among other things. The experts’ deciphering of the crisis is nearly complete. Now the real work begins.
The best account of what happened, packaged as a book ...
I was surprised – perhaps readers were too – when Economic Principals failed to deliver two weeks in a row. In eighteen years of writing for The Boston Globe, I never paused the Sunday column. There was too much to write about; the space was too valuable, the summer audience ...
Few positions educate the incumbent more thoroughly to a global point of view than that of chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF was buttressed in its founding by the authority of John Maynard Keynes, even if his fellow architect Harry Dexter White, representing Franklin Roosevelt, had ...
As a (sometimes) shadow newspaper columnist, one who joined the Obama bandwagon before the Iowa caucuses made the Illinois Senator a favorite, Economic Principals feel obligated and/or entitled to keep track of the shifting tides of his presidency. EP tipped George W. Bush for the presidency in 1998 and ...
The long-running comic strip Doonesbury recently spent a half-dozen strips chronicling one family’s return to newspapers. Even after Zonker explains their virtues to teenage Sam, she still doesn’t get it. “It costs money, the content’s old, there are no links, you have to turn pages and it’s heavy! Why ...
SYRACUSE, NY – When currency trader George Soros rolled out his Institue for New Economic Thinking last spring, in a conference at Cambridge University, the writer of The Economist’s “Economic Focus” feature who covered the conference invoked a metaphor devised by David Colander, of Middlebury College, to describe ...
Congressional negotiators are working overtime to reconcile various provisions of the House and Senate bills to overhaul financial regulation, hoping to send a final version to President Obama’s desk before the July 4 weekend.
Thursday Senators on the panel voted 10-2 to kill a provision that would have made the Federal ...
When Nouriel Roubini converted his Roubini Global Economics service to a subscription basis in 2005, EP compared the development to the launch of a magazine.
Like many others, the New York University professor was searching for a business model. His site had begun life nearly ten years before as ...