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by cactus
Regular readers know that (together with a currently un-named co-author) I recently wrote a book looking at how Presidents performed on a wide range of issues, everything from abortion to the economy. The book is currently scheduled to come out next year (more info as it becomes ...
Stocks
Gross Domestic Product
November 12, 2009
Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full Part 2 Maggie Mahar, Health Beat Blog
Reform: Looking at the Glass Half-Full, Part 2
The Truth about the Public Option
For reasons I don’t understand, progressive pundits have been swallowing Congressional Budget Office ...
Stocks
Rdan
Pragmatic capitalist points us to thinking that works for some.
The strategy outlook at JP Morgan is little changed over the last week despite some sobering news out of the labor department last Friday. The bad news on jobs is no longer a surprise to investors and history has ...
Stocks
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Robert Waldmann A specter is haunting Paul Krugman -- it is the specter of apparently sophisticated forecasters who predict a huge spike in US long term bond rates in the near future. He notes that most investors can't believe this or rates would already be high. He also notes that some of those ...
Stocks
Toyota Motor Corporation
Ken Houghton notes that playing with data is dangerous. Predicting the future tends to be easy. There are several ways to do it. First, you can predict that everything will grow as it did this year—or last year, or the mean of the past x years. Or you can predict that it will be great if a ...
Currencies
Inflation
Republican
Democrat
University of Cambridge
Js-kit has complete comments embedded in the post, at the bottom of each post after clicking on the title of the post you want to read. There is a disconnect with the blue comment link at the top of the post (blogger comment format) so for posts use the link bottom left of that post.
Very ...
Other
Robert Waldmann The one by Paul Krugman is a must read. what I hear is that officials don’t trust the demand for long-term government debt, because they see it as driven by a “carry trade”: financial players borrowing cheap money short-term, and using it to buy long-term bonds. [skip] the ...
Government
Treasury Bills
Robert Waldmann Can the Fed do any more to stimulate the economy ? The question is back. The answer is only by making credible promises about the fairly distant future. My view is that this means no. I review the issue after the jump. Long ago Paul Krugman proposed that the Bank of Japan ...
Government
With all the talk of "Detroit," you would think that Michigan would have lost the most employees, as a percentage of same, on the year. After all, the scariest graph of the U.S. MSAs isn't scary for nothing. But the Regional and State Employment data is out for October (h/t CR ), and there's a ...
Government
Barack Obama
Employment Downturn
Congratulations to Andrew Samwick of Capital Gains and Games for being named Professor of the Year in New Hampshire .
Other
[cross-posted on ataxingmatter --see posting there for additional comments] As some of you may know, I am one of the many people who eat a vegetarian diet. I don't eat cows, pigs, fish, whales, sharks, chicken, turkey, sheep, wild game, tame game... As I sometimes say when people ask me about ...
Other
Rdan
(Run 75441...h/t)
Maggie Mahar writes an essay that is now cross posted at Angry Bear with the author's permission:
Health Beat, a Project of the Century Foundation;
November 4, 2009 Heath Care Reform-- Looking at the Glass Half-Full
What Has Been Accomplished; What Still Must ...
Government
Universal Banking
Suppose I make my monthly budget, and assume I'm going to spend $600 for food. At the end of the month, I discover that I only spent $520. I expected to take $80 out of savings that I now do not have to. My bank account is now $80 higher than I expected it to be at the end of the month. Is this ...
Government
Personal Finance
White House
Rdan
Hat tip to Economist's View for the post from Top-down versus bottom-up macroeconomics, by Paul De Grauwe, Commentary, Vox EU for starting an interesting conversation on macro that I think is very relevant to the public story we tell ourselves about how our economy works. One key point ...
Other
by Bruce Webb I am still working out the new formatting and rather than hog all the page space here I'll just put up some links to the bill, the CBO Score, plus some extended discussion with extracted Tables at my site. Senate Merged Health Care Bill (2.5MB PDF) CBO Score Discussion at the ...
Other
Bill Clinton
And, if I were a better person, you would be reading my interview with David Kurla, CEO of IkoToilet/Ecotact in this space. But I'm not, so go to his website , especially the links for school , urban , and slum toilet provisions, and then see this John Sauer piece at the Huffington Post , and ...
