Economics Roundtable
The Problem - II
Calculated Risk adds the the clearest picture of the housing tailspin.
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The Problem - I
Calculated Risk has the clearest picture of the problem we face.
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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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Ecological Economics
"A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation”
Jeffery Sachs nails the essence of our American grown policy problem: Never a thoughtful discussion, always a bunch of talk show hosts (some masquerading as news outlets) batting around trivia. Even when so-called experts are called in, there is seldom a thoughtful vetting of who ought to be in the ...
I've been thinking about changing the name of this blog for quite a while. I never intended to steal the trademark name "Ecological Economics" from its rightful owners. Instead, my hope was that I might draw a few key players from that arena into the blogosphere to add ...
Over at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum declares Cap and Trade dead as a doornail. Drum adds that "we're not going to get a lovely and elegant carbon tax in its place. For now, carbon pricing is dead."
To better understand why this is not such a ...
Folks at Globalization and the Environment provide evidence as to why I've been so skeptical about the Carbon Trading game. Japan is staging up to buy its way out of Koyoto commitments with no pain — buying from willing Eastern European sellers who find themselves with a surplus of ...
Bloomberg: Carbon tax should replace carbon trading, CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent, Newsday.com, Dec. 13: … "[Cap and trade is] a very inefficient way to accomplish the same thing that a carbon tax accomplishes," [NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg] said. "It leaves itself open to special interests, corruption, inefficiencies." ...
At a Nov. 16 Congressional Budget Office "Director's Conference on Climate Change", CBO Director Peter Orszag argued in favor of a carbon tax relative to an at-least-for-now inferior alternative of a cap-and-trade policy [Issues in Climate Change, Statement of CBO Director - PDF]. Here is ...
Can you envision a country that plans to rid itself of both Coal and Nuclear Energy source-dependence? Germany is on track to do so:
Today, the Global Forest Coalition and the Global Justice Ecology Project strongly condemn—on both human rights and environmental accounts—recent carbon trade announcements/resolutions at the UN Bali Glogal Climate Change Conference. "They are going to use the failed model of carbon trading to supposedly protect forests, but just like agrofuels, the ...
Tired of being told to "go shopping" whenever a national or international crisis occurs?
Tired of hearing that "recycling" will save us?
Note: Recycling is a very good idea, just "not enough."
Want to know how our so-called Consumer Society was manufactured?
Want to know why the linear "produce, manufacture, CONSUME" model is ...
It is nice to see that Willem Buiter shares my skepticism about Cap and Trade Carbon schemes relative to Carbon Taxes. It is nice because his London School of Economics credentials eclipse mine, and those are just the beginning of why he is held in high esteem in both ...