delong.typepad.com - 10/27/2009
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An event:
Berkeley Law - Global Financial & Economic Crisis Series: Global Unemployment :
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28TH, 2009; 12:30 - 1:45 PM; BOOTH AUDITORIUM; BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW
A panel discussion featuring:
John Quigley, Goldman School of Public Policy
J. Bradford ...
econbrowser.com - 10/21/2009
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econbrowser.com —
Does high unemployment mean that there's nothing to
worry about in terms of inflation? Since I'll be...
trying to answer this question quantitatively using some equations, I'll begin with some notation. Let u t denote the unemployment rate as of the ...
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Unemployment and inflation
blogs.reuters.com - 10/23/2009
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blogs.reuters.com —
The length of time the average unemployed person
has been without a job has been hitting new...
record highs for a while; it's now managed to pass the 6-month mark. That's much higher than any previous peak in this data series. And I fear that the only ...
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Unemployment datapoint of the day
economistsview.typepad.com - 11/1/2009
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No Taxation Without Representation
EconoSpeak —
Remind me again, Brad, which of the panelists is currently unemployed?
Transcript from the Future
EconoSpeak —
... A source who has asked to remain anonymous has just handed me a transcript of tomorrow's panel discussion at UC Berkeley on Global Unemployment, featuring Brad DeLong, John Quigley, David Card and Andy Rose. As a courtesy to the participants, I have taken the liberty of concealing who will have said what by substituting pseudonyms for the names of the participants. Similarly, the panelists themselves have taken the wise precaution of using the more genteel euphemism "your daughter's illness" to refer to mass unemployment, lest the latter term unleash widespread ...
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