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Paul Krugman mentions a “blockbuster” paper from the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference. The paper is titled Aggregate Supply in the United States: Recent Developments and Implications for the Conduct of Monetary Policy. It was written by Dave Reifschneider, William L. Wascher and David Wilcox… all from the Federal Reserve Board. The paper states […]
Real GDP came out today. The number was $15,790 billion for the 3rd quarter 2013. Back in July, I posted an article that Real GDP had an appointment to keep with Effective Demand. I showed a series of graphs from the past of how real GDP grows up to the effective demand limit before a […]
Lets play a game. The ultimate point of the game is to understand certain aspects of Social Security but to keep complications from creeping in too early (wait for later parts) we are going to start with simple game play on a board far, far away. In fact on distant yet oddly Earth-like Planet Elsinore. […]
Via the ?Real News: Privitization of the Royal Mail Service Interview of John Weeks,( a professor emeritus of the University of London and author of the forthcoming book The Economics of the 1%: How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy). Brings to mind this process: Grim outlook of US post office buildings: Currently, […]
Lifted from comments from Edward Lambert’s International flows Part 4 comes a reminder from Angry Bear Steve Roth: This is all part of the universal “saving/saving” confusion. See Nick’s post “Why ‘Saving’ Should be Abolished” http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2012/01/why-saving-should-be-banned.html Key point, I think, been meaning to write a (another) post on this: “The economy” cannot “save” money. For […]
Dean Baker was polite in responding to another story from the Washington Post in the campaign to discredit the program: That’s what the headline of the front page Washington Post story might have read if the purpose was to inform readers. Instead the lengthy piece (which covers the whole back page) told readers that Social […]
I posted in the morning a graph of unit labor costs compared to inflation and labor share (% change over year). There was a key insight. If someone was to stop and think, the insight is actually important. Sometimes important ideas get lost in a post. So this post is to make sure it is […]
Inflation is low and has been declining for years. I want to present a model to explain a dynamic between inflation and unit labor costs. First let’s look at a chart of the two of them over the years. (semi-annual data, % change from year ago) They move together with more noise in the unit […]
Maggie Mahar at The Health Beat Blog writes bout the exchanges. Paul Krugman: “There are two remarkable things about this kind of doomsaying. One is that the doomsayers haven’t rethought their premises despite being wrong again and again — perhaps because the news media continue to treat them with immense respect.” If you Google “Obamacare,” […]