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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). When I began
Myths of the Deficit
Nearly 15 million people are officially counted as unemployed in the United States, and more than 6 million of these
"Pressure from the Bond Markets"
Dear Dr. Dollar: With the crisis in Greece and other countries, commentators have said that governments are “under pressure from
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.
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,