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Nominally misguided (wonkish)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:49:57 +0000

When you're in a liquidity trap, focusing on nominal magnitudes doesn't clarify matters; it obscures them.

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Global Nominal Spending History

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:58:49 +0000

As someone who believes that stabilizing nominal spending rather than inflation is key to macroeconomic stability, I have taken the liberty in the past to reframe U.S. macroeconomic history according to this perspective. Thus, I renamed (1) the " Great Inflation " that started in the mid-1960s ...

Capital Gains and Games found this 3 days ago on macromarketmusings.blogspot.com

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Some Thoughts Elicited by Reading Some Calibration Papers

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:03:15 +0000

(Warning: Might be considered "wonky" by some) In many economic analyses, one wants to isolate the "business cycle" component of macroeconomic series. Here is one such series, which has had a detrending technique applied to it. Try to guess what it is. Figure 1 The above series is the ...

Economist's View found this 45 hours ago on econbrowser.com

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Definitive Guide to BRIC ETFs: BRIC ETF Investing 101

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 06:06:31 +0000

Brazil, Russia, India, and China, collectively known as the “BRIC” economies. Together, these four countries currently comprise 40% of the world’s population and 15% of GDP, ensuring that they will be a force to be reckoned with on the global stage for years to come.

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Bloomberg News vs. Fed: Judgment against Fed attached

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:11:23 +0000

Posted by Edward Harrison on 25 August 2009 at 11:20 am Digg it Bookmark it Stumble it Reddit 25 Aug Share Below is a copy of the actual judgment in the Bloomberg News vs. Fed FOIA case. The case is: Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, U.S. District Court, Southern ...

naked capitalism found this 3 days ago on creditwritedowns.com

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Euro trims gains after Fitch cuts Ireland rating

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:00:20 +0000

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The euro trimmed gains against the dollar and the yen while the spread between Irish and euro zone government bond yields widened on Wednesday after ratings agency Fitch cut its sovereign rating of Ireland. Fitch downgraded Ireland's long-term rating to 'AA- ' from ...

FT Alphaville found this 3 days ago on reuters.com

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Stimulating thoughts, 3rd quarter edition

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:04:00 +0000

The good news from the new GDP report is that the fiscal stimulus seems to be working just about the way a sensible Keynesian approach says it should. That's also the bad news. f

Stefan Karlsson's blog found this 8 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Q3 GDP IS UP, BUT THE WAR FOR GROWTH HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:21:55 +0000

It's official: the U.S. economy expanded by 3.5% in the third quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports today. Encouraging as that is, it's neither a surprise nor anything near to closure for the financial and economic hurricane of the last year or so. But it is a step in the right ...

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US economy starts to grow

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:43:15 +0000

By Sarah O’Connor and Krishna Guha in Washington amd Alan Rappeport in New York Published: October 29 2009 12:57 | Last updated: October 29 2009 19:42 The US economy returned to growth in the third quarter after the longest period of economic contraction since the Great Depression, official ...

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Personal Income & Spending Dispel Inflation Fears

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0000

The consumer is still strapped. The Commerce Department posted its data for September’s personal income and spending, and frankly it almost makes you question yesterday’s GDP data. The report showed that Personal Income was unchanged in September, but showed that Spending was down ...

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GDP Shows Recession End, Sort Of

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:21:55 +0000

The Commerce Department has reported in Q3-2009 Dross Domestic Product figures. We had 3.2% as the official estimate, but Goldman’s drop late yesterday took expectations lower. Bloomberg had consensus at 3.0% for GDP. The headline GDP number came in at +3.5%, above estimates and the ...

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Mortgage Payments Declined in Third Quarter

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:51:59 +0000

Along with Thursday's GDP report, the Department of Commerce offered an important clue to answering one of the biggest questions hanging over the U.S. economy: How quickly U.S. consumers can shed their onerous debts and get into a position to spend again. In a table buried deep in its ...

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ETF Rewind - Week 432 (10/23/09)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:49:00 +0000

(Click Image to Enlarge/ Glossary ) Equities held flat last week with the S&P500 (SPY) finishing down -0.7% . Interestingly, good news on Friday was not enough to push the market higher as Energy and Materials pulled back fairly hard on dollar strength. Short- and ...

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BEA: GDP Increases at 3.5% Annual Rate in Q3

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:14:05 +0000

From the BEA : Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the ...

Econbrowser found this 9 days ago on calculatedriskblog.com

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Market Cheers Over Ugly GDP Report

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:45:40 +0000

The stock market and commodities are giddy today on the Third Quarter Advance GDP Estimate which increased at an annualized rate of 3.5%. Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of ...

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On Revisions and on Conditioning

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:07:31 +0000

Both have to be "handled with care". Revisions We're all tempted to make predictions on the basis of the last data point. And even more difficult to resist is the temptation to make definitive statements on the basis of data that are sure to be revised. For instance, we see this question ...

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 6 days ago on econbrowser.com

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The Death of Private Investment

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:31:08 +0000

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released third-quarter gross domestic product numbers yesterday, and overall real growth at 3.5 percent was pretty good. But examining the components of GDP reveals a more disturbing picture. While consumption, exports, and the government sector were up, ...

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 8 days ago on cato-at-liberty.org

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Growth and jobs

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 00:50:00 +0000

At this rate, we wouldn't reach anything that feels like full employment until well into the second Palin administration.

Economist's View found this 6 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Marginal Tax Hikes from Health Reform

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Here is my column in tomorrow's NY Times about the marginal tax rates implicit in the health reform bill making its ways through Congress. Let me add a few additional observations on the topic. 1. Here are the CBO numbers on which the article is based. Unfortunately, the Times did not run the ...

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National Accounts Show Stimulus Did Not Fuel GDP Growth

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:32:09 +0000

Along with the news that real GDP growth improved from -0.7 percent in the second quarter to 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released detailed National Income and Product Account tables yesterday, which received little comment in the press today. These ...

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