econbrowser.com - 1/12/2009
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Yes, I saw the discouraging headlines. But I also see signs of hope in last week's economic news.
Let me begin by acknowledging the awful employment news. This was undeniably grim , though popular descriptions that BLS had reported the biggest job loss in any calendar year since 1945 are ...
federalreserve.gov - 1/14/2009
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federalreserve.gov —
Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis and based on information collected on or before...
January 5, 2009. This document summarizes comments received from business and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve System and is not a commentary ...
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FRB: Beige Book--Summary--January 14, 2009
federalreserve.gov - 1/14/2009
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2009 Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions
by Federal Reserve District Commonly known as the Beige...
Book, this report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic ...
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FRB: Beige Book
calculatedriskblog.com - 1/9/2009
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The Federal Reserve released the Factors Affecting Reserve
Balances today. Total assets declined $125 billion to $2.14...
trillion. This is a little improvement ... Click on graph for larger image in new window. The Federal Reserve assets decreased ...
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Federal Reserve Assets Decline
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links for 2009-01-12
Economist's View —
... Opportunity, and Luck - Lane Kenworthy
Obama’s shot in the arm is too small - Clive Crook
Our Capitalist Government - The American Prospect
The New Deal Didn't Fail - NYTimes.com
Bush Lead During Weakest Economy in Decades - washingtonpost.com
Obama’s shot in the arm is too small - FT
Confirmation bias and the Einstein myth - Information Processing
Signs of a thaw - Econbrowser
Assorted links
Marginal Revolution —
1. Laura Miller's pieces for Salon.com.
2. The increasing use of German words in English; is it just the financial crisis?
3. One moderately fast reader.
4. The good economic news.
5. Via Jim Swofford, do avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians?
6. Markets in everything; the usual, etc., nothing new here.
Monday links: dividend destruction
Abnormal Returns —
... Bond Index, index fund to follow. (IndexUniverse.com)
Oil traders are scrambling to hire supertankers to store oil. (Times Online via Keith Shepard)
60 Minutes missed the market on its “oil speculation” story. (Crossing Wall Street, Big Picture)
Some signs of hope from the money markets. (Econbrowser)
The drop in exports from Korea and ...
Scrivener.net —
... worst since the Great Depression? The worst since 1945? The Minneapolis Fed explores The Recession In Perspective, from which... On the other hand, there's not much doubt that today's problems within the financial sector (as opposed to the entire economy) are indeed the worst since the Depression. How are things going there? James Hamilton sees signs that they may be getting better, as does Bloomberg and VoxEu (via Mankiw as well.) The New York Times ...
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Business this week —
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