DECEMBER 14-20, 2008 Key economic news, data, reports, and other information in the rapidly changing economy. Your suggestions and links in comments will be updated periodically in the main post….

rdan William Polley has a note on paying interest with links to Altig, DeLong, and others: David Altig takes up the question with links back to Marginal Revolution, DeLong, as…

…think we pay. (BTW -links to all data, plus a spreadsheet with a copy of the data, will be provided at the bottom of this post. I would encourage readers…

…Medicare HI, Highways etc) is http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/tfmp/tfmp.htm For my purposes I just want to look at OAS (Old Age Survivors) and DI (Disability) the Reports themselves are found at the links…

…Rustbelt had a few links he has suggested as well…maybe we can make a referral list of interest. Tech Dirt went bonkers over cactus’s post on his bad service and…

…David links to some good information here for a look at comparisons to other countries and definitions of ‘immigrant’. Update 2: reader Movie Guy links to a PEW reseach paper…

…was not as careful as I will be for finishing. Please send feedback on titles for the categories of links as I add them, eventually other site links we do…

…include rules about: 1. Transcripts that have been edited, instead of accurate. 2. Links with the quote to help establish context. 3. Extra point for some reasonable background material as…

Factcheck.org does a creditable job with quotes from President Bush’s public statements and links to real data. The summary is posted, but the links and data are worth the time:…

…comes from reading the paper from the BLS on teenage LF, which James kindly links to. Its very first sentence notes that teenage LF is highly cyclical – something several…