Trade, Tariffs, and Soybeans
Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.
Latest news (Page 76)
*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.
Minding the Gap
A review of The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
Dear Dr. Dollar:
With the crisis in Greece and other countries, commentators have said that governments are "under pressure from the bond market" or that bond markets will "punish" governments. What does this mean? --Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Queens, N.Y.
W(h)ither the Dollar?
The U.S. trade deficit, the global economic crisis, and the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.
Charter Cities
An NPR interview with Stanford economist Paul Romer today caught my ear. He was talking about his “charter cities” project.