Economics Roundtable
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137 Commentators
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137 commentators.
Economics Unbound (Mike Mandel)
May 14, 2008, 9:03 am, 291722
I'm travelling today to the "2008 World Congress on National Accounts and Economic Performance Measure for Nations." (on the train down to Washington DC as I write this). Basically a full week conference on how to make sure that the...
May 12, 2008, 1:03 pm, 290573
I've had this post sitting here for a while, and I've decided to just put it up. It's not earth-shaking, but it's kind of interesting. Last Wednesday the BLS announced strong productivity growth in the nonfarm business sector--2.2% in the...
May 7, 2008, 7:03 pm, 288418
I just got this press release from the American Physical Society. This is the sort of thing which depresses me. If we can't find the money to spend on science and innovation, then my optimism index goes way down. America’s...
May 1, 2008, 7:03 pm, 285311
According to the BEA's latest report, real personal consumption grew at a 1% rate in the first quarter. But once I take out the parts of PCE which don't actually come directly from consumer pockets, the rest of real PCE...
May 1, 2008, 7:03 pm, 285310
I had promised a week of optimistic posts, but only delivered 3. That means I owe you folks two more....
April 28, 2008, 9:03 pm, 283346
We live in a boom and bust world--and it's not the Fed's fault. As we wait to see what the Fed does on Wednesday, one thing is clear to me: Bernanke and his crew need to keep cutting rates until...
April 23, 2008, 5:03 pm, 280639
We all know that one of the biggest problems going forward is how to meet the energy needs of the world, while still reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. This is the elephant in the living room, where our current...
April 22, 2008, 11:03 am, 279679
Next in my series of optimistic posts: healthcare. There’s been a lot of bad news lately about healthcare lately. A new study just came out showing that life expectancy at birth has been declining in some counties since the 1980s....
April 21, 2008, 11:03 am, 279011
This is the opener in my week of optimistic posts. And it’s a good time to do it, given the multifaceted surge of pessimism. One branch of pessimism is environmental/natural resources. This morning we had Paul Krugman writing a column...
April 15, 2008, 1:03 pm, 276528
This morning the BLS reported that the producer prices of finished goods jumped by 1.1% in March, putting them up by 6.9% over the past year. This was the headline number that freaked everyone out. But everyone is looking at...