Doubting Thomas: Is un/employment the concession that creates the new New Synthesis?
Or maybe I should have prefaced my title with “Skeptical Dajeeps” because part of being inquisitive means having a healthy …
Monthly Archives: September 2013
NY Fed’s Dudley: Blow it out your Humphrey-Hawkins
I’ve been in a bit of a funk over the last few weeks. I’ve had some heavy duty personal things …
Sumner: Why no layoffs?
In his latest post regarding the latest unemployment claims number, Sumner asks why the ratio of claims to population is …
Propaganda machine of a different stripe: Journalistic malpractice
Manufactured outrage over ordinary facts of life in the press lately isn’t just about what happens to the price of …
Another as of yet unfinished project
I am still occupied with my day job and haven’t had a lot of time for my preferred intellectual pursuits. …
No taper amid major political loss for the tight money wing of the Democrat Party
You’ve likely heard by now that the FOMC decided that now is not the time to taper QE3, citing its …
Nostalgia Post: February 2009 and now (I’m a copycat today)
Feb 2009 is when I joined the Market Monetarist camp. I say joined because I can’t really be a Market …
Tim Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee listens to BIS?
I must have missed this or tuned it out while watching the videos of Bernanke testimony. Here is a quote …
Obama backs down as Summers leaves ‘race’ for Chairman of the Federal Reserve: HANG SENG rises 1.2%, dollar falls
Starting off with a side note, it would be really nice to have a NGDP futures market in situations like …
Larry Summers withdraws from consideration as Federal Reserve Chairman
The following is a quote from an email from CNN Breaking News that hit my inbox at about 5pm ET …
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