…reduced sample. The coefficient drops to the still dramatically high 2.5% of extra expected inflation when Volcker was chairman. Now Martin, and Alan Greenspan also have solid reputations as enemies…

…Management, who has a blog at the Financial Times, has posted the transcript of a “debate” he organized with Maurice Obstfled of UC-Berkeley, Alan M. Taylor of UC-Davis and Dominic…

…make more money when the students quit paying on them and as Alan Collinge pointed out for every $1 loaned an unpaid loan through default makes $1.20, far greater than…

…about 30% in the United States to 55% in Sweden. Since 1980, those levels are essentially unchanged. As discussed by Alan Krueger, countries with high inequality tend to have lower…

…consuming slack by dividing capacity utilization by the unemployment rate in terms of percentage change year-over-year. (Thanks to Alan Thomson at Terra Firma Financial who created this graph in response…

…ALLEN 2,735,520 OK INHOFE, JAMES M 3,232,035 JOHNSON, CONSTANCE NEVLIN 542,927 LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL MR 3,899,386 SILVERSTEIN, MATTHEW BENJAMIN 455,230 OR MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN 9,144,950 WEHBY, MONICA 5,378,129 RI REED,…

Today we see an article, Betting the house: Monetary policy, mortgage booms and housing prices by Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick, Alan Taylor. They warn of excessive easy monetary policies. Their…

…I’ve written before about the weakness of economic development cost-benefit analysis. Even by that low standard, North Carolina’s performance is breathtaking. Report author Alan M. Freyer suggests that the Legislature…

…claimed the Income Based Repayment (IBR) plan in Student Loans has first cost the government $21 billion and then cost the government $19 billion. While Alan Collinge would tell you…

At 12:07 Eastern standard time 9/10/2015 Alan Rappaport wrote an article on Jeb Bush’s tax proposal whose headline seemed to me to be the title of a Bush campaign press…