Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Enrolled Bill [Final as Passed Both House and Senate] – ENR) Bill Text 111th Congress (2009-2010) H.R.4173.ENR Update: The link did work…

…the household share of Treasury holdings rises to 30% – as of Q1 2010 the stock of Treasuries outstanding was just about $8.3 trillion (see L.209 here) – then households…

The WSJ Economics Blog, discussing June 2010 unemployment rates by state, uses the headline “Most Regions Show Improvement“* I suppose we should be encouraged by the headline and not look…

…Jul. 15, 2010, at A17. But the op-ed is a straw man argument tilting at windmills. First, Sherrill notes a study cited by The Economist that finds that most Americans…

…driving both construction and end-use of electricity by 2020, we don’t see coal continuing its dramatic rise of the last few years. 2010 probably marks the peak of cement production….

…is headed to passage by the Senate this week. See Financial Times, Wall Street Reform Proposal Wins Key Support, July 12, 2010. Perhaps the weakest part of the bill is…

…year through June 2010, the labour market added back 308k jobs, which is +50k new jobs during the expansion or roughly +500k in “US”. I’m afraid that the US labour…

…Resource Utilization Groups III categorizes residents into 44 acuity groups. The two systems interact to calculate facility acuity levels (very oversimplified explanation). On October 1, 2010 MDS 3.0 and RUGs…

Hat tip reader ilsm for this article by Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com July 6, 2010 U.S. spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the overall defense…

…Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More than Tripled in the last three decades, new data show,June 25, 2010, hat tip Tax…