Did the Fed Cause the Great Recession?
…committing to keeping it low for considerable time like the Fed did in 2003 and signalling it clearly and loudly. With this policy, the Fed would have provided a check…
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Slow Realization of Low Wages & the Japanification of the US
…pressuring executives to lift worker pay.” Our own contributor here at Angry Bear, run 75441 aka Bill, is signalling a concern for deflation, even as central bankers expect inflation to…
Dow’s Attractor Level over the past year
…far. Dow now 17,365” — Edward Lambert (@wisegrowth) October 22, 2015 With the Fed signalling a rate rise in December. I am now re-assessing the attractor level. The important factor…
Stock Market Valuation
…approach. In this case real MZM growth ( zero maturity money= M1 +money market accounts). It is obvious that MZM growth is still weakening and signalling that the market PE…
David Stockman is still alive and kicking. Let’s see what he has to say about Covid-19.
…does stop the spread—despite the manifest evidence to the contrary—-why all the face mask virtue signalling on live TV? Why is it so difficult for libertarians to understand that a…
Trade-Offs and Revealed Preferences, Republican Leadership edition
Even more than Digby on CalPERS, the one piece everyone should read today is Charlie Stross on International Travel. Since this is an economics blog, let’s pull a key section:…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…