Economics Roundtable
The Problem - I
Calculated Risk has the clearest picture of the problem we face.
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The Problem - II
Calculated Risk adds the the clearest picture of the housing tailspin.
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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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Ironically, not cut taxes as much as President Obama is proposing!
Here’s an awesome story by Jeanne Sahadi on ...
OK, we’re done waking people up to the problem of the unsustainable fiscal outlook; it’s time to get down and dirty now into the business of talking about the not-so-easy solutions. And in a ...
(Photo from Runner’s World story by Amy Reinink. Go, Peter!)
In today’s New York Times, this column by new “contributing columnist” Peter Orszag, only freshly retired ...
The key word in the title of this post, from my perspective, is “alternatives”–not “additions.” The Obama Administration is reportedly considering some new proposals for a variety of business tax cuts that they believe would be particularly effective in creating jobs quickly. As
During this last week of summer, I am barely keeping up with the August-recess fiscal policy news. Luckily there’s not much to keep up with. But last week the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (sometimes affectionately(?) referred to as “pee-rab” (PERAB)) issued their
(Figure above from Federal Reserve Board discussion paper by Julia Lynn Coronado, Joseph P. Lupton, and Louise M. Sheiner, 2005.)
Catching up on some reading this week, and had this few-days-old
Why do I need to think/write this week, when I have friends like Len Burman doing it for me? Here’s a New York Times editorial on the Bush/Obama tax cuts from earlier this week. There’s absolutely nothing in it that I ...
I am taking a break this week from my EconomistMom blog while my family life is especially busy–squeezing in what we can for the last two weeks of summer (and the last two weeks of living with my Princeton-bound daughter, Allie–pictured ...
No fair, “Brooks” has known me here too long and gave away the “baselines matter” punch line to yesterday’s “joke”:
“Could you loan me ten dollars but just give me five? That way you’ll owe me five, I’ll owe you five, and we’ll ...
A few weeks back one of my colleagues relayed an old joke to me which he was reminded of in the context of a fiscal policy issue we had been discussing. Except as soon as he said it, I immediately thought it was an even better analogy to the (then-)Bush(-soon-to-be-Obama) ...