Tim Duy: Bullard Holds His Ground, by Tim Duy: St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard reaffirmed his commitment to the current policy stance. From his press release: “Labor market conditions have improved since last summer, suggesting the Commi

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Dan Little: Total information awareness?, Understanding Society: I'm finding myself increasingly distressed at this week's revelations about government surveillance of citizens' communications and Internet activity. First was the revelation in the Guardia

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Monetary policy and US inequality, again - FT Alphaville The Unbearable Lightness of Being Right - Paul Krugman Inequality and Opportunity - Miles Corak Some news about preferential international market access - Vox EU Does Mervyn King deserveblame for Br

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All the hand-wringing you hear over the cost of social insurance programs such as Medicare and Social Security is a ploy from the right designed to get you to support cuts -- don't fall for it: The Geezers Are All...

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All the hand-wringing you hear over the cost of social insurance programs such as Medicare and Social Security is a ploy from the right designed to get you to support cuts -- don't fall for it: The Geezers Are All...

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Peter Dorman would like to know if he's wrong: Why You Don’t See the Aggregate Supply—Aggregate Demand Model in the Econ Blogosphere: Introductory textbooks are supposed to give you simplified versions of the models that professionals use in their own...

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The "ugly, destructive war against food stamps": From the Mouths of Babes, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: ...I usually read reports about political goings-on with a sort of weary cynicism. Every once in a while, however, politicians do s

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This is a brief follow-up to this post from Noah Smith (see this post for the abstract to the Marco Del Negro, Marc P. Giannoni, and Frank Schorfheide paper he discusses): DSGE + financial frictions = macro that works?: In...

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Technology

Tim Duy: September Looking Good, by Tim Duy: Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren, considered to be on the dovish side of the Federal Reserve, had this to say about the outlook for monetary policy: However, I would also say...

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Tim Taylor: China and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: The original Kuznets curve posited, back in 1955, that inequality of incomes would follow an inverted-U pattern as a nation's economy developed, first rising, and then declining. In 1955, this looked

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Ezra Klein is correct: Stop celebrating our falling deficits: It’s time to stop celebrating last week’s Congressional Budget Office report. Our deficits aren’t dropping because we’re doing something right. They’re dropping because we’re doing everything w

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Greg Mankiw complains that if taxes go up for people with incomes as high as his, he won't work as hard and that means he won't be able to leave as much for his kids. Incentives matter he says. If...

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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is an optimist when it comes to our long-run economic prospects (i.e. he does not endorse the notion that productivity is slowing). I'm with him. (This is a graduation speech Bernanke gave at Bard College at...

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Two from Tim Duy: First, "Dollar Up": Dollar Up, by Tim Duy: The Dollar continues to gain despite the supposed "Great Debaser" Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bringing us multiple rounds of quantitative easing: Just sayin.... And

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The Dollar continues to gain despite the supposed "Great Debaser" Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bringing us multiple rounds of quantitative easing: Just sayin....

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On Thursday's data: Busy Data Day, by Tim Duy: Something of a busy data day. Not all of it pleasant, but I suspect that the Fed will attempt to see through that unpleasantness. Start with the surprise jump in initial...

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Basit Zafar, Max Livingston, and Wilbert van der Klaauw examine the impact of the payroll tax cut in 2011 and 2012, and its subsequent reversal: My Two (Per)cents: How Are American Workers Dealing with the Payroll Tax Hike?, by Basit...

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Labor Force Participation and the Unemployment Threshold - macroblog Capital Controls, Currency Wars, and Cooperation - Liberty Street Keynes and Keynesianism - Economix Time travel in Euroland - Antonio Fatas This Is No Time to Cut Food Stamps - NYT...

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