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econospeak.blogspot.com - 1/1/2009
Chicago Economist Claims Homeowners Choose to Default on Their Mortgages And Quit Their Jobs
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On Christmas eve , Casey Mulligan claimed that the employment decline was due to an inward shift of the labor supply curve to which we noted that he had yet to give us his explanation for WHY the labor supply curve shifted inwards. Well – it has been a week and Casey Mulligan offers us this ...
Are Workers Unwilling to Work?
economistsview.typepad.com - 12/28/2008
Are Workers Unwilling to Work?
— economistsview.typepad.com — I am going to go out on a limb and assume this is the result of unintended... inventory accumulation rather than, say, firms building up inventories in anticipation of an economic boom that is just around the corner. If so, then this is not a ... (more) Are Workers Unwilling to Work?
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Economist's View — ... 'Market' Isn't So Wise After All - WSJ.com - Thomas Frank As Trade Slows, China Revamps Its Strategy - NYTimes.com Galbraith Gives 'C' Grade to Paulson, Bernanke - Bloomberg Video Denmark's resilient mortgage market - The Economist Russia's economic downturn pushes Putinism into crisis - Project Syndicate Relitigating 1998 at the end of 2008 - Brad Setser Chicago Economist Claims Homeowners Choose to Default on Their Mortgages And Quit Their Jobs - ...

Reads of the Day for the start of 2009
Angry Bear — ... It used to be a standard rule that if you wanted to bury something in a newspaper, you published it on a Friday, or the day before a holiday. This seems to be what the NYT is doing with Casey Mulligan (previously discussed here here), who dropped the other shoe yesterday and was, amazingly, worse than expected. PGL at Econospeak does the read and calls out the deed: ...

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