Follow WallStreetBlips on TwitterTop Stories - Last 30 Days
macroblog.typepad.com - 17 days ago
—
macroblog.typepad.com —
The Wall Street Journal repeats the unhappy news
: "Companies across the economy are holding off on
hiring even as the profit outlook improves, amid economic uncertainty and their own success at raising productivity in rough waters. "Hiring ...
(more)
The growing case for a jobless recovery
Comments
vote down
Calculated Risk
found this 17 days agofound this
marginalrevolution.com - 26 days ago
—
marginalrevolution.com —
Elinor Ostrom may arguable be considered the mother
of field work in development economics. She has worked
closely investigating water associations in Los Angeles, police departments in Indiana, and irrigation systems in Nepal. In each ...
(more)
Elinor Ostrom and the well-governed commons
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 20 days ago
—
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com —
Our critics accuse us of manipulation and cherry-picking
and misrepresenting a variety of arguments about climate change
and energy production. If everything they said was actually true, it would indeed be a damning indictment. But it's not.
(more)
Global Warming in SuperFreakonomics: The Anatomy of a Smear
ft.com - 16 days ago
—
ft.com —
Published: October 22 2009 00:03 | Last updated:
October 22 2009 00:03 John Meriwether, the hedge fund
manager and arbitrageur behind Long-Term Capital Management, is in the process of setting up a new hedge fund – his third. The move comes barely ...
(more)
Meriwether in new hedge fund
online.wsj.com - 4 days ago
—
online.wsj.com —
Jesse Neider for the Wall Street Journal Yale
economist John Geanakoplos has seen his previously obscure theory
about collateral's role in the credit bubble gain currency after it burst.
(more)
Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm
interfluidity.com - 2 days ago
—
interfluidity.com —
It worked! Officials pointed to a lot of
good news in terms of visible cash flows associated
with TARP and the various assistance programs. They claimed that since the Obama administration has taken office, more money has come back than has been put ...
(more)
Sympathy for the Treasury
marginalrevolution.com - 26 days ago
—
marginalrevolution.com —
In Adam Smith there is the pin factory
and the market and from that beginning we trace
the long literature in economics focused on the twin questions, What price to set? How much to produce? Following Coase, Williamson asks different ...
(more)
Oliver Williamson and the pin factory
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com - 26 days ago
—
freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com —
The reaction of the economics community to Elinor
Ostrom's prize will likely be quite different. The reason?
If you had done a poll of academic economists yesterday and asked who Elinor Ostrom was, or what she worked on, I doubt that more than one in ...
(more)
What This Year's Nobel Prize in Economics Says About the ...
nytimes.com - 24 days ago
—
nytimes.com —
“IF you really want to know why the
financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008,
I can tell you in one simple sentence.” The statement came from a man sitting three or four stools away from me in a sparsely populated Midtown bar, where I was ...
(more)
Wall Street Smarts
mcclatchydc.com - 20 days ago
—
mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON -- As the housing market collapsed in
late 2007, Moody's Investors Service, whose investment ratings were
widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall Street plunge ...
(more)
How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors
federalreserve.gov - 3 days ago
—
federalreserve.gov —
Release Date: November 4, 2009 For immediate release
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met
in September suggests that economic activity has continued to pick up. Conditions in financial markets were roughly unchanged, on ...
(more)
November 4, 2009
blogs.wsj.com - 14 days ago
—
blogs.wsj.com —
Uncle Sam’s interventions in the housing market have
pushed home prices 5% higher on a national average
than they would have been otherwise, Goldman Sachs estimates in a report released late Friday. The government over the past year has slowed the ...
(more)
Uncle Sam Adds 5% to Prices of Homes, Goldman Says
pimco.com - 10 days ago
nakedcapitalism.com - 4 days ago
—
nakedcapitalism.com —
The Treasury invited a small group of bloggers
for a “discussion” with senior officials on Monday. Initially,
the meeting was to be background, which is a sort of journalistic “FYI but you can’t use it” but we were told ...
(more)
Curious Meeting at Treasury Department
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 30 days ago
—
gregmankiw.blogspot.com —
Here are the odds offered at Ladbrokes ,
the UK-based gambling company, for some candidates for this
year's Nobel prize in economics: Eugene Fama 2/1 Paul Romer 4/1 Ernst Fehr 6/1 Kenneth R. French 6/1 William Nordhaus 6/1 Robert Barro 7/1 Matthew J ...
(more)
Nobel Odds
pbs.org - 28 days ago
—
pbs.org —
Choose Video Kaptur and Johnson Kaptur and Johnson
Lobbyists Essay: The Health Care Lobby Charles Houston Remembering
Charles Houston Update Required Sorry in order to watch this video clip you need the latest version of the free flash plug in. ...
(more)
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen
news.bbc.co.uk - 27 days ago
—
news.bbc.co.uk —
This headline may come as a bit of
a surprise, so too might that fact that the
warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our ...
(more)
What happened to global warming?
nobelprize.org - 26 days ago
—
nobelprize.org —
12 October 2009 The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize
in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA,"for her analysis of economic ...
(more)
Economic governance: the organization of cooperation
bloomberg.com - 26 days ago
—
bloomberg.com —
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Central banks flush with
record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of
euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two- quarter rout in almost two decades. Policy makers boosted foreign ...
(more)
Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Banks Shift Reserves ...
online.wsj.com - 26 days ago
—
online.wsj.com —
DAVID R. HENDERSON Yesterday's award of the Nobel
Prize in economics to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson
at first struck me as a good choice. Now I think it's a great choice. The reason is that mainstream economics has become highly mathematical ...
(more)
David R. Henderson: A Nobel for Practical Economics
