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Tag Archives: Economics
Economic Forecasting in Alternative Universes
<dweeby econo-skepticism follows> The New York Times Magazine today has an article on the past, present and future of the Obama administration’s economic policy. It is a good if long read and chock full of inside baseball, political speaking points … Continue reading
Quantitative Easing Explained
Forget reading Fed minutes, this makes it all clear. (via Business Insider)
Fun with Numbers: State Fiscal Policy Edition
Warning: serious wonkery ahead. Not for the faint of chart. Amid discussions of how dire are the fiscal situations of American states and which state most resembles Greece, plus various initiatives on the ballot in the recent election, I was … Continue reading
Hoping for Change: Monetary Policy Edition
Platformonomics does not usually do monetary economics (except maybe the virtual kind), but I just happened to be thinking about the Federal Reserve yesterday (admit it, so were you…) shortly before the news broke of Bernanke’s renomination. I was hoping … Continue reading
It’s the Balance of Profits, Stupid
More fodder for the irrelevance of trade deficit figures in a piece by Hal Varian in the New York Times via a reader of Greg Mankiw’s blog (whew!) on the contributions of various countries involved in the manufacture of the iPod and the … Continue reading
