The Nation’s Increasing Federal Debt
…two significant adverse shocks to economic activity in the 21st century—the deep and prolonged Great Recession that began in 2007 as a result of the global financial crisis, and the…
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FHFA Issues Subpoenas for PLS Documents
…are no longer in business (New Century, etc.), however most of the PLS issuers still exist. Update: From the The Washington Post Fannie and Freddie together own about $255 billion…
Huffington Post Editorial Standards II
…The Huffington Post reviewed the mastheads of the American Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal:…
Sooo …. which of Obama’s economic policies do you want to repeal or defeat, Repubs?? And replace those policies with whose–I mean, what–economic policies, exactly? Do tell!
Barack Obama wanted to galvanize Democrats when he insisted this week that his economic policies are on the ballot in November. Instead, the soundbite has already become the centerpiece of…
Forecasting the 2016 election economy: in which I respond to Nate Silver
…economic forecasting has almost no value one year out, the forecast of an economic pundit having a margin of error of +/-4.6%! Specifically with regard to 2007, while (he says,…
Absolute Decoupling and Relative Surplus Value: Rectification of Names
…crossed over to environmental economics from the idea of decoupling economic growth from energy consumption. See, for example, Loren Schmid (1975): Past evidence has indicated that there is a direct…
There is a economic bad moon on the rise
…https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1968383292446498969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1968383292446498969%7Ctwgr%5E819f15619c7a6ea51f752813dcfba0990e1822aa%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2Ffederal-funds-rate Daniel Hornung, who held economic policy roles during the Obama and Biden administrations and is now a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, said in…
Soc Sec XXIX: What does patriotism have to do with Social Security ‘crisis’
…Table V.B2: Additional Economic Factors, and Table V.A1: Principal Demographic assumptions, all of which (and many more) to be found in 2008 Social Security Report: List of Tables. The Economic…
The Confederate Ideology: "At this cost the system is maintained."
…the wages-fund doctrine. He is also credited with initiating the tradition of making ceteris paribusassumptions explicit. In Slave Power, he also contributed to the economic theory of slavery, which I…
The Othering of “Economic Illiteracy”
…of a colonialist feather, along with Thomas Cree, Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg. Sessions’s economics is indeed terrible… as is the economics that opposes to it a fraudulent fallacy claim….