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tvhe.co.nz - 6/3/2009
Some issues with GDP
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Recently Peter Cresswell from Not PC asked me if I understood the difference between production and consumption . I know that consumption is what we value and I know that production is what we do in order to achieve consumption. As a result, I see production as a means to an end - the costly ...
Not a robust recovery
econbrowser.com - 6/8/2009
Not a robust recovery
— econbrowser.com — Often after a sharp economic downturn we observe an equally dramatic recovery . But nobody can claim... to be seeing that so far in the currently available data. Since the beginning of April, we've been discussing one potentially favorable indicator ... (more) Not a robust recovery

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keithhennessey.com - 6/4/2009
Will the stimulus come too late?
— keithhennessey.com — I began this blog at the end of March after the stimulus bill had become law. I... had been struck by how much the stimulus debate had focused on whether the bill was efficient. (It clearly was not.) There was much less discussion of whether the ... (more) Will the stimulus come too late?

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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/1/2009
What you don't know …
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — No comment: The focus these days is on the mismatch between China's electricity consumption and a key... measure of industrial output. For most of the past decade, China's industrial value-added growth (IVA) -industry output less input costs - has moved ... (more) What you don't know …

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