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The curious economic effects of religion

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:00 +0000

That hell could matter to economic growth might seem surprising, since you can’t prove it exists, let alone quantify it. It stands as one of the more intriguing findings in a growing body of recent research exploring how religion might influence the wealth and prosperity of societies. In recent ...

MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators found this 4 days ago on boston.com

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The small bank – big bank dichotomy

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:36:26 +0000

"After a huge fall off in credit consistent with the fall in nominal GDP, we are seeing credit stabilise at a lower level. Debt to GDP ratios may not be lower, but as GDP is lower, so too is credit in the system. Yet there is a large difference between the haves and the have-nots, largely due to ...

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Contrasting the American and Chinese Economies

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:58:45 +0000

The information below was compiled by The New York Times earlier this week and it provides some useful graphics for comparison of the two more important economies on the globe. Some things revealed in the data will surprise no one such as the fact that China is growing rapidly or that ...

ockhamsrazor posted 3 days ago from blog.ockhamresearch.com

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Will the recovery be "jobless"?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:02:50 +0000

A lot of economists are worried that the recovery from the 2007-09 recession, like those following the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions, will be "jobless." Mark Thoma , for example, writes Historically, a good rule of thumb has been that the peak in unemployment lags the trough in economic output by ...

Economist's View found this 3 days ago on gecon.blogspot.com

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destatis Gross domestic product in 3rd quarter of 2009 increasing 0.7% on the previous quarter

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:42:11 +0000

Press release No.430 / 2009-11-13 Gross domestic product in 3rd quarter of 2009 increasing 0.7% on the previous quarter WIESBADEN – The German economy continues to recover: As reported by the Federal Statistical Office ( Destatis ), the gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2009 ...

A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of ... found this 6 days ago on destatis.de

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Quarterly national accounts - preliminary figures

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:42:11 +0000

Third Quarter 2009

A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of ... found this 6 days ago on insee.fr

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Reagan mythbusting, productivity edition

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:34:12 +0000

No, productivity growth didn't accelerate.

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight ... found this 12 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Consumer credit down, but does it show deleveraging?

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:13:50 +0000

I have just taken a look at the consumer credit figures for September, released just yesterday by the Federal Reserve. The data do show some modest deleveraging, especially when looking at the recent increase in nominal GDP. However, it is still not clear to me that the scale of deleveraging is ...

naked capitalism found this 13 days ago on creditwritedowns.com

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World oil demand to grow 700,000 bpd in 2010

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:42:05 +0000

DOHA (Reuters) - Global oil demand will grow 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2010, OPEC's Secretary-General Abdullah al-Badri said in a speech delivered on his behalf on Tuesday. China and India will lead global economic growth next year, with the producer group forecasting world GDP growth at ...

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and ... found this 11 days ago on in.reuters.com

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The "Paradox of Deleveraging"

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:34:17 +0000

CNN Money with the details of Friday's continued decline in consumer credit outstanding: Consumer credit fell in September for the eighth straight month, the longest streak of declines since the Federal Reserve started keeping records in 1943. Total consumer borrowing fell a seasonally adjusted ...

Abnormal Returns found this 12 days ago on econompicdata.blogspot.com

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Politico Does Economic Analysis...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:06:00 +0000

Be afraid; be very afraid. From "'Created or saved' doesn't add up" , by Joseph Lawler: ...[t]he "created or saved" numbers are meaningless. The administration purposefully devised the metric to be nebulous. Without a counterfactual, showing the trend of unemployment in the absence of the ...

Economist's View found this 10 days ago on econbrowser.com

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Entitlement Spending and the Long-Term Budget Outlook

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:15:15 +0000

Last week I gave a talk at the annual fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. The session was titled “Aging and Health: The Challenges of Entitlement Growth,” and my slides drew on our August report The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update and ...

The Aleph Blog found this 10 days ago on cboblog.cbo.gov

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Japanese GDP... The Worst 4.8% GDP Print Ever?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:41 +0000

EconomPic detailed Japan's odd Q2 GDP print in which real GDP rebounded to positive territory for the first time since Q4 2007, even as nominal GDP continued to contract: This has happened before (but real GDP has never been higher, while nominal GDP was negative). That is... until this ...

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The Next Stimulus Package

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:15:49 +0000

Earlier this week I mentioned a possible " upside surprise " for GDP in 2010: With unemployment above 10%, there will be significant political pressure for another stimulus package - especially if the economy starts to slow in the first half of 2010. This next package could be several hundred ...

FT Alphaville found this 9 days ago on calculatedriskblog.com

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Will rising oil prices derail the recovery?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:11:29 +0000

Last April I described new research on the role of oil prices in the recent recession. Here's an update on what's happened since then. In a paper presented at the Brookings Institution last spring , I examined the post-sample forecasting performance of an equation originally published in ...

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"Where's the Consumption Disaster?"

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:03:40 +0000

Casey Mulligan asks: So a year later, in September 2009, after living through a year of "disaster," how did real consumption expenditure (one economists' favorite measures of living standards) compare to what it was in September 2008? He observes that consumption (as well as disposable ...

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European recession ends with a whimper

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:48:26 +0000

By Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt and Ben Hall in Paris Published: November 13 2009 08:34 | Last updated: November 13 2009 18:26 The eurozone emerged from recession in the third quarter of this year, but the speed of its escape fell short of expectations – and the pace set by the US. Eurozone gross ...

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Eurozone turns a GDP corner

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:26:00 +0000

Huzzah! The Eurozone returned to positive GDP growth in the third quarter, as the below chart courtesy of JP Morgan shows: Eurozone GDP rose by 0.4 per cent in quarter-on-quarter, after five consecutive quarters of declines. Economists had expected a 0.5 per cent rise. And accordingly, here ...

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Eurozone GDP Breaks Through Zero... Concerns Still There

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:53:03 +0000

Bloomberg reports: Gross domestic product in the economy of the 16 nations using the euro rose 0.4 percent from the second quarter, when it fell 0.2 percent, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said today. Economists had forecast the economy to grow 0.5 percent, according to ...

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Alternative Money As A Macro Stabilizer, The Swiss Case

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:01:57 +0000

Old monetarists used to praise monetary policy in Switzerland and its macro stability, a stability seen recently with only a small decline in GDP and a 4.1% unemployment rate, despite the international crisis nearly bringing down UBS, its largest bank. But those old monetarists never discussed ...

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