Economics Roundtable
March 2017 Fed Funds Rate
What is the effect of a 0.25% change in the Fed Funds rate?.
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March 2017 Payroll Employment
Payroll employment has not grown impressively since 2000. Some baby-boomers retired, but that does not totally account for this graph.
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May 2014 Payroll Employment
After 76 months, we finally got back to the prerecession level of payroll employment.
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Jobs
The best summary of the state of our economy is the graph (below) of employment as a fraction of population for people over 16 years old. The decrease is large, but the most troubling feature of the graph is the flat trend .
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Graph-of-the-Year Candidates
Donald Marron likes European interest rates. Click on the image to get a bigger version. Can you find three distinct subperiods?
Brad DeLong favors the U.S. gdp gap.
Remember M1?
Money Supply M1 growth is now over 20% per year over a 12 month lag. M1 growth has touched 20% before, but not with excess reserves of $1.6 trillion. Where is M1 headed?
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