Ex-food and energy, inflation is at 0.9% for the past twelvemonth. Even if you include those in the longer measure, annual inflation has been 1.7%. (Recall that we paid an average of more than $3.00/gallon for most of the Spring of 2010, for instance.) There is a simple reason “everyone” expected higher numbers: they were […]
Eurointelligence cites a Die Zeit interview (the original interview here) with ECB central bank President Jean-Claude Trichet. Their take on it is quite interesting, which suggests that most are ‘wrong’ about the path of ECB policy. According to Eurointelligence: Central bankers are trained not to say anything of any relevance in long speeches or interviews, […]
The quality of the posts at Disruptive Women in Health Care(r) varies widely, but their special issues bring out the best and leave most of the chaff behind. Their latest eBook is Innovation Nation: Recognizing the Benefits of Innovation in Health Care. The PDF (direct link here) collects a series of posts from December, and […]
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative’s Stephen Gordon suggests “that even if an economic model cannot predict market failure, it can still be quite valuable in helping with the remedy”. Lots of thoughts occur to me, but will join the discussion in comments.
by Linda Beale Truth in Budget Numberscrossposted with Ataxingmatter Seems like everybody these days is into misrepresenting, distorting, or at least stretching the facts to suit the spin they want to give. One issue that I raised in my snarky post on the 15th about the Budget commentary was the way most media has described […]
In the context of Dan’s post below, I just want to repeat what Bruce Bartlett said so accurately yesterday: [H]ere’s what I would be doing if I were organizing opposition to the Republican budgetary disinformation campaign. First of all, I would be holding hearings five days a week in the Senate Appropriations Committee and every […]
The Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) was introduced Friday night. Information about the bill (copy of the legislation, bill summary, list of program cuts, and the subcommittee savings tables) is linked here: Appropriations Committee Introduces CR Containing Largest Spending Cuts in History February 11, 2011 CR Spending Cuts to Go Deep February 9, 2011 Rogers Announces […]
FY 2012 Federal Budget The following links are to federal government sources for the federal budget, OMB The Budget Summary Tables Terminations, Reductions and Savings TESTIMONY OF JACOB J. LEW DIRECTOR OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET February 15, 2011
by Mike Kimel Canada too! Part twoCross posted at the Presimetrics blog. In response to my post commenting on Frances Woolley’s post, Frances Woolley left the following comment: On WCI, one of the commentators suggested that the Liberal/Conservative growth differential is partly due to differences in military spending. In Canada where we don’t have a […]