Economics Roundtable
-- Recession? --
Are back-to-back quarters of 0.6% GDP growth a recession? The blogs weigh in at Recession?
Will a 2% Fed Funds rate help? Fed Watch
-- Economic Principals --
David Warsh reports the latest on this year's free agent season for academic economists.
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137 Commentators
As of 2/19/08, the Economics Roundtable includes
137 commentators.
Knowledge Problem (Lynne Kiesling)
"Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action”
Michael Giberson
Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling considers the move of the UK Financial Services Authority to crack down on insider trading:
The FSA is promising to crack down on insider dealing. No-one in the City feels the need to change his underpants. After all, what chance do public sector ...
Lynne Kiesling
In a post about how reducing your meat consumption can help you manage food costs, Megan McArdle has the best quote I've seen thus far about the food chain:
Also, you may have noticed that meat is getting kind of pricey. Best bet is that it will go up ...
Lynne Kiesling
Long-time KP readers know that I am from Pittsburgh and I am a hockey fan. Newer readers may not realize that, because I don't write as much about hockey here as I used to. In part that's the disillusion and ennui that set in during and after the ...
Lynne Kiesling
I spent the weekend with two friends at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, the second largest sheep-based livestock and fiber festival in the U.S. It's an overwhelming combination of county fair (complete with fair food), livestock show, livestock market, and fiber festival. It's all about turning this
Lynne Kiesling
I handed out the Washington Post story on biofuels that Mike posted on Wednesday in one of my classes, and it was very timely, as they were presenting case studies of proposed biofuels investments. The one thing I went out of my way to point out to ...
Lynne Kiesling
By now you all have probably heard that Hillary Clinton and John McCain are proposing gasoline tax holidays this summer to take some budget pressure off of voters who drive a lot (c'mon, let's be honest about the true audience of these proposals). Barack Obama does not support ...
Michael Giberson
Wow, this article on international oil supply and demand from the New York Times is fascinating, and not in a good way. Did they fire the editors? It is like a bad action movie - fast-paced, a few colorful characters, far too many plot twists, and ...
Lynne Kiesling
I'm taking a little time this morning to catch up on the reading I've missed over the past month, while I've been focused elsewhere. One worthwhile observation, with which I agree, comes from Virginia Postrel's note about carbon policy positions of Presidential candidates, among other things:
It's infuriating how ...
Michael Giberson
According to a year-long study of gasoline prices in the state of Washington, variations in prices across the state "are due to the cost of obtaining ...
Michael Giberson
Free Press columnist Ed Shamy offers "a stroll through The Burlington Free Press archives about gasoline prices," beginning January 16, 1974, continuing to today:
Jan. 16, 1974: Gasoline in short supply in Vermont. Entire communities without a single open filling station. And gasoline is obscenely expensive, an average of ...