Economics Roundtable

Just the other day, I wrote:

So, I don't go to bed worrying about inflation, or that we've been in an especially protracted recession for years and apparently don't know it (an implication of claims you can find out there that CPI and like measures understate "true" inflation by very ...

For today let's have less meta and more data.

The key economic and demographic tables are V.A1 'Principal Demographic Assumptions', V.B1 'Principal Economic Assumptions' and V.B2 'Additional Economic Factors' all of which are available in the 2008 Social Security Report's List of Tables as are the tables showing ...

All the discussion about a holiday from the federal tax on gasoline this summer has brought all kinds of comments out of the woodwork about how government interference in markets, and especially the 1970s oil price controls and windfall profit tax prevented private companies from investing. Such comments ...

Since I'm trying to cut a 24-page paper down closer to 15 today, I'll leave the Heavy Lifting to other. But two things probably should be discussed (or at least noted) here:
Brad DeLong appears (to me) to confuse perceiving a move from Democratic Republic to Empire—and therefore ...

The BBC reports:

Baghdad - The authorities in Baghdad say they are preparing for an exodus of thousands of people from eastern parts of the city.
Fighting between government and US troops on one side, and Shia militia on the other, has intensified ...

Is this about devaluation and inflation of the US dollar? Or is it about gas prices and robbers? Or just commodities as the new medium of exchange (slosh is the technical term I believe) of ...

Who knew? Greg Mankiw is also a Stephen Colbert fan. Colbert makes his case for free gas. If he runs for President – will he select Greg as his economic advisor? This is definitely worth the look as it is a hoot.

Jerry Bowyer mocks the recessionistas:

Monday’s data from the Institute for Supply Management is our first real glimpse at the second quarter of 2008 — you know, the one we’re in now. The above chart shows that the service sector — which is by far a better ...

I want to talk about something of which I know nothing: Wireless Internet Access.

We spent the weekend in pgl-land (NYC), at a friend's apartment. Since he's a rather prominent computer graphics designer, I assumed, incorrectly, that he would have some form of Internet access at home.*

Tom's doing some heavy lifting, PGL is in form, Bruce has started SocSec 101, and the entire economics blogsphere is having so many conniptions over Hillary that you'd think the CEA was actually the Shadow Government.

So I just want start easy, and take a look at three easy-to-compare ...