…even medium-term) interest rates will make it difficult for the Fed to actually exercise any control over the real economy, at least for a time. This will limit the effectiveness…

…this parable, see this discussion of the effectiveness of the PATRIOT act (from the site where google found the Simpson’s scene that I was looking for). AB P.S. That’s not…

…Ever action and every order will be scrutinized and analyzed, with a relentless search for quality and cost effectiveness, and a relentless search for outliers. Possible downsides? Immense amounts of…

…people ? My efforts to check on the effectiveness of non-conventional monetary policy have been total Fred. I look (often) at interest rates on TIPS and normal nominal Treasuries. I…

…price for a pacemaker insertion averages $47,477; but in markets that remain comparatively competitive, the cost of the procedure averages $30,399.” – “in concentrated markets, the average hospital makes a…

…governing effectiveness. This perception may have flourished most easily in a state whose informal motto is “You got a problem with that?” But what some of us suspected all along…

…Sanya, Hans Weisfeld and Juan Yepez of the IMF also looked at the effectiveness of capital outflow restrictions. They report that controls on outflows can be effective in reducing net…

…actual impact of the stimulus. We should debate the effectiveness of each component of the stimulus. But we should also ridicule the ideologues … Rubio’s comments are not just wrong…

…a higher inflation target. But there is a little detail which I would hope to contribute. Even if government spending and the inflation target were to increase, their effectiveness would…

…policy is dead in its effectiveness. There is no fiscal stimulus in the works. Real GDP has hit the effective demand limit. If an economist does not know when the…