We Need a Care Package!
We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
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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). 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