Joke of the Century: Central bankers care about you!
This opinion piece has to be a joke – I certainly had to ask myself that question again and again …
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Adam Smith Institute’s Tim Worstall takes Scott Sumner’s “German Employment Miracle” analysis out of context
Intrigued by the title of the blog post by Tim Worstall, “How do we solve unemployment,” in my WordPress reader, …
Inflation nutters and S. Korean ferry boat operators
This is will be a short post to extrapolate and expand on a main idea of a post by Scott …
Taxing Taxes on the Taxed and the man called ‘C’
After yesterday, that’s exactly how I felt. I make less than I did in 2006 and ended up with an …
A couple more off the cuff points about the long term unemployment problem
Long term unemployment in itself isn’t the problem. It’s a symptom of a much larger macro problem in which monetary …
Contributing to the debate about the long term unemployed (and taking a walk on the wild side)
Sometime last week Tyler Cowen weighed in on the reason behind long term unemployment that, in my interpretation, implied that …
Obama tosses HHS Secretary Sebelius under the ObamaCare bus
So it’s out with Sebelius as Health and Human Services Secretary and in with Sylvia Mathews Burwell in a rearranging …
Increase the inflation target or switch to NGDPLT?
Marcus Nunes has a new post that briefly compares the prospect of rising the inflation target to 4% versus NGDPLT. …
Low interest rates do not mean what most people think
I was reading an article about recently released economic data the other day. Which article it was isn’t really important, …
Common ground with Mian and Sufi
I was going to subtitle this post with “Doing a little evil to do a whole lot of good,” but …
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