A trip around Katie’s barn to show that a deflationary environment increases the rate of default
I should be thrilled that a new paper by economists at the Federal Reserve, Lin, Tsomocos, and Vardoulakis (LTV) shows …
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Off the cuff on structural problems, part 2 – Information technology industry: “We’ll run your mess for less”
In my last post I wrote about the offshoring phenomenon among the larger technology companies, like IBM, and I touched …
Off the cuff about structural problems
Being in the technology field and employed by a direct competitor of IBM and Hewlett Packard, it is difficult to …
More lip service to the dual mandate: Yellen expands “concern” about unemployment to disadvantaged
I ultimately supported Yellen’s nomination to the post of Chairperson of the Federal Reserve, mostly out of a distaste for …
Hardline inflation nutter: The central bank’s fundamental duty to protect the purchasing power of the currency”
I followed a link from Marcus Nunes’ new post praising Beckworth and Ponnuru for an excellent article about NGDP targeting; …
Astoundingly incoherent bureaucratic nonsense and gave injustice perpetuated by government
In my last post I presented the latest report to Congress from the US Treasury’s Office of International Monetary and …
A word or two on Tim Geithner and The U.S. Treasury’s Office of International Monetary and Financial Policy’s report on inflation
Marcus Nunes sent me an article from the NY Times about what former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner really thinks. Aside …
Subjective conslusion: Conservatives who’ve changed their minds about macro
Scott Sumner has a new post on Paul Krugman criticizing conservatives for being, in my words, stubbornly confused when it …
Employment report context: Seven years (from now) to return to 66% LFPR with 5.5% U-3 (Yikes!)
I found this nifty employment calculator tool on the Atlanta Fed’s website while perusing articles on The Economic Populist blog. …
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