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Thoughts on trade policy and pegs

…of goods. Other factors like perceived stability of currencies and speculative forces probably cause exchange rates to be (considerably?) different than they would be if they were set only by…

Spurious Correlation of the Day

perceived effect and lower the base constant. HomeINetAccess = 0.65055*(FICO>660) – 0.1159*(Pct with Current Payment) + 67.42 R-squared = 0.4204 Adj. R-squared = 0.3967 Fortunately, Pct with Current Payment remains…

Foreign exchange reserves are hot hot hot

…members cope with financial volatility, reducing the economic disruption from sudden swings in capital flows and the perceived need for excessive reserve accumulation. As recovery takes hold, we will work…

Vanilla

…prime mortgage based on fees, perceived service, convenience, etc, and the market is competitive. Not all providers are the same, of course, but people are rarely screwed by surprising characteristics…

Deficits Debt and Capital Formation

perceived to be net wealth) and crowd out investment. In the real world, public debt crowds out investment. This means that when deciding fiscal policy now, we have to forecast…

Revanche

…PNAC (Bruce Webb) by a reader objecting to the perceived characterization. Link to interview on NPR with author Sam Tanenhaus. In his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, an expansion…

Broken Okun

…that Brad’s model, in which the change is caused by a reduction in the value of trained workers perceived by managers, should imply a prediction of a recovery with unusually…