When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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*New* Post--Various Items
Now that I have at least a temporary fully functioning blog to use, I can post several items that have
Several Items on Arizona
Today's New York Times has an interesting article about generational differences in attitudes toward immigration and immigration reform.
Repost (May 11): Derivatives and Food Security
Bernie Sanders' provision requiring an audit of the Fed (see our May 3 post, Audit the Fed) appears to
Repost (May 7): Various Items
(1) About today's BLS unemployment report: As you have probably heard, the U.S. economy added 290,000
Repost (May 3): Audit the Fed
Sen. Bernie Sanders has proposed an amendment to the financial reform bill that would allow the Fed to be audited.
Charter Cities
An NPR interview with Stanford economist Paul Romer today caught my ear. He was talking about his “charter cities” project.
Can Invading a Small Third-World Country Stimulate the Economy?
Reviewing Reinhart and Rogoff's This Time is Different in the May 13 issue of the NY Review of
Who's Afraid of Debt and Deficits?
We just posted material from the May/June, 2010 issue of Dollars & Sense, including Marty Wolfson's article
Follow Up on Poterba on Capital Markets
In my most recent blog post, about last night's event at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
An Evening with Fancy Bankers
Chris Sturr, D&S co-editor, here. A few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend the "
Breaking News: SEC Sues Goldman Sachs
Just posted to the NYT website: U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud New York Times Read the full article.
Several Items: Greece, Taxes, Bond Market
Today's items: (1) Taxes: Since it's tax day, it's time to dispel some of