Energy Star Efficiency Program
…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…
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Patrick on OWS and Steve Jobs
You can go read the OWS stuff yourself; I want to highlight this: Escaping on the R train from Rector Street, we got home to discover that Steve Jobs died….
Saving and "Government Saving"
Steve Randy Waldman and Scott Sumner (plus many others, linked from Steve’s post) wade in on notions of saving and investment. (I’m endlessly amazed that the best econothinkers on the…
Has the Fed rate done a good job to balance inflation over the years?
In light of the recent discussions of inflation in the 1970’s (Steve Roth and Steve Randy Waldman), I ask… how well has the Federal Reserve done in setting a Fed…
How do Americans get rich? (and stay rich?)
Originally published at Evonomics and reposted at Naked Capitalism, Angry Bear Steve Roth continues his conversation on riches, income, debt, and expectations. Steve Roth serves as Publisher of Evonomics. By…
The Great Moderation Just Moderated the Risks of the Rich
…Steve Randy Waldman posts, and came across one that made the same point quite elegantly: “Stabilizing prices is immoral“. (If you want to understand how economies work, just read everything…
Full-Reserve Banking Goes Mainstream
…the same idea. Matthew says “This is the remedy advocated by Bloomberg View’s editors.” That’s pretty mainstream. I’d go even farther and recommend Steve Randy Waldman’s idea of “starter savings…
Platinum Currency: What’s The Fed’s End Game?
Steve Randy Waldman as usual gets practical about Treasury issuing platinum coins. JKH in comments there does typically likewise. Suppose the Department of the Treasury says: “We have a statutory…
Beckworth Promotes Platinum Coins as Obama’s "FDR Moment"!
…moment that progressives (despairingly) dream of at night. The world is a very strange place. And people argue with Steve Randy Waldman when he says that MMTers, post-Keynesians, and Market…
What Will Be the New Economic Paradigm?
…(Even as I post this I find that vimothy, JKH, and Steve Randy Waldman are worrying productively at parts of this very question in the comments here.) Cross-posted at Asymptosis….