…responsible for purchasing health care, we are concerned about the new rule. A rule intended to address a Medicaid problem which will have an unintended consequence of increasing premiums and…

Paul Krugman rightly attacked the confidence fairy again yesterday — claiming that the unemployment of the 80s following Volcker’s tightening proves that Fed credibility doesn’t help — but I think…

…argument is that it is best to firmly grasp the nettle as, for example, Paul Volcker grabbed it. The problem is that there is no hint at all in the…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

…policy. The Taylor rule (1999) actually had “liftoff” in early 2014 according to Tim Duy, when the rule (1999) went positive. Then she puts the rule into perspective of her…

…showing how it compares with and leads the Sahm Rule. Just in case you’re not familiar with the Sahm Rule, it is a rule of thumb started by economist Claudia…

This post will lay out a way to incorporate a NGDP target into a policy rate rule, so that the rule steers inflation back to a NGDP target, not to…

…later June 12, 2020; the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new final rule to dramatically revise the agency’s prior…

…rule that would grant exemptions on swap trades. President Biden’s appointed chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Rostin Behnam, has taken up a new piece of financial deregulation first…

…US economy. Unfortunately, the federal government recently issued a regulation intending to address underpayment of hospitals by Medicaid. However, the new rule could push hospital prices higher for 66 percent of the US…