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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About Economics (Mike Moffatt)


May 7, 2008, 7:08 am, 288516
500+ Economists Endorse Marijuana Legalization Cannabis will be raised to a class B drug with a maximum five year jail term for users... H/t: Fark ...


May 7, 2008, 4:16 pm, 288515
Every day when I open the paper there is an article like this: Some See Oil At $150 a Barrel This Year: Oil's seemingly unstoppable surge has led some analysts to...


May 7, 2008, 4:44 pm, 288514
This might be the least compelling argument against carbon taxes, but it is one that gets repeated ad nauseam. From Will Wilkinson: So in order to estimate the optimal pigouvian...


May 7, 2008, 5:17 pm, 288513
I just finished teaching a 3-day all-day "boot camp" macroeconomics course to 60 MBA students. One topic that came up a few times was what would happen if NAFTA...


May 1, 2008, 6:15 pm, 285416
I have spent most of my adult life in academia and my best friend has spent most of his life in the military. Our work environments have, I believe,...


May 1, 2008, 6:04 am, 285069
This is the week of truth. For the seven days between May 1 and May 7, I need to have an average body fat percentage of under 18.23%. ...


May 1, 2008, 6:25 am, 285068
With talk that Ontario will soon become a "have not" province there has been a great deal of discussion about what the high value of the Canadian dollar is doing...


April 30, 2008, 10:28 am, 284549
The Fed just cut the target for the Federal Funds rate by 25 basis points, down to 2.00%. Eight more of these 'small' cuts and the Federal Funds rate...


April 30, 2008, 5:57 am, 284405
The BBC thinks so: The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, is widely expected to announce a cut in interest rates to 2% from 2.25% later on Wednesday. But it is looking...


April 24, 2008, 7:55 am, 281281
Motivated by a recent bet I was made I decided to do a rough back-of-the-envelope estimate of how likely it is that oil will hit $135 this year. The...



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