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EconBrowser (James Hamilton)

"Analysis of current economic conditions and policy”


May 9, 2008, 9:59 am, 289516

If the U.S. had decided to go back on the gold standard in 2006, where would we be today? That's a question my friend Randy Parker recently asked me. Here's how we both would answer.


May 8, 2008, 1:45 am, 288579

From WSJ, Henry Pulizzi and John D. McKinnon write:


May 7, 2008, 12:00 am, 287838

Two years ago, as part of a multi-year project, Charles Engel and I organized a conference on current account sustainability in major advanced economies. Lask week, we convened a follow-up conference aimed at updating our knowledge on this subject. Below is the latest read on the ...


May 6, 2008, 12:41 am, 287139

The trend is clear: demand is down and complaints are up.


May 5, 2008, 1:22 am, 286532

The newest version of the Chinn-Ito financial openness index (earlier discussed here), extending up to 2006, has just been posted. Here's the series for Argentina and for Venezuela.


May 3, 2008, 10:20 pm, 286221

From the Washington Post:

White House officials for more than a year have blocked a rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales by challenging the findings of government scientists, according to documents obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists.


May 3, 2008, 9:37 am, 286131

That's the topic of my most recent research paper. Reader warning: this is a bit more technical than the standard Econbrowser post, so if you're not a user of regression analysis, this may not be up your alley.


May 2, 2008, 10:20 am, 285688

The Wall Street Journal had a very disturbing story on Wednesday about the "Fast and Easy" loan program of Countrywide Financial Corporation, many of whose mortgages were bought up by Fannie Mae.


May 1, 2008, 2:00 am, 284772

The 0.6 ppt growth rate (SAAR) reported in the 2008Q1 advance release seemed to validate the President's assertion that we're not in a recession, discussed in this post.


April 30, 2008, 11:49 am, 284353

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that U.S. real GDP grew at a 0.6% annual rate in the first quarter of 2008, the same tepid growth rate we saw in the fourth quarter of last year.



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