It rains on everyone when it rains on the wicked
I am a Christian, raised as a Southern Baptist. But I am not a particularly religious person. What I mean …
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Great Recession Cooking: Fed a family of three on $110 per week – Part One
One of the things I learned during my unemployment ordeal is how to live on a minimal grocery budget. My …
More Journalistic Malpractice?
I was preparing a post about current events over the weekend, but never finished it. In that post, I was …
Janet Yellen writes off older unemployed, doesn’t get that IT is irrational
I really hate having to criticize Janet Yellen given that she’s the one of the least hawkish of flock. But …
Esther George: tighten policy… just because
It’s been quiet in the blogosphere recently; and so, when I saw this story and video with Esther George on Bloomberg …
Krugman et al: Monetary policy cannot solve secular stagnation [Updated]
Krugman has contributed to a new book with others on the topic of secular stagnation that is free to download on …
Context Matters: FOMC members need to start talking growth and ditch the inflation-targeting tourniquet
So I’ve been convinced that I need a different context from melancholy defeatism to pushing growth. I actually thought that’s …
Synthesis is not for me
I can’t explain why some forms of framing seem to stick better than others. From the “boomers retiring” meme, when …
Slow GDP with falling headline unemployment rate and flattening yield curve
I have a couple of alternate explanations to what Scott Sumner presents in his account for why the falling unemployment …
Squeegee men are back (downtown Manhattan)!
I stopped in to a convenience store this afternoon to pick up some soda and I noticed the latest copy …
