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Posted 12 hours ago
The first step in fixing problems is to acknowledge they exist:Feeling No Pain, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: My first reaction to Bill Clinton's convention speech was sheer professional jeal
Posted 12 hours ago
Edward Glaeser reviews Derek Hyra's The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville :The Way We Gentrify Now: Derek Hyra's 'New Urban Renewal', by Edward Glaeser, Book Re
Posted 13 hours ago
Arvind Subramanian says when it comes to sustaining economic growth, China is likely to do better than India:The growth future India and China, by Arvind Subramanian, Vox EU: Can China and India s
Posted 13 hours ago
Monitoring the inflation bees, striving not to get stung - macroblog Bank Profits to Pay a Price for Fed Risk Limits - John M. Berry Amazon Garden City - Economist.com Why flies are so hard to swat -
Posted 16 hours ago
Here's something that might help you to understand what Brad DeLong is talking about when he discusses the expected variation in the daily Gallup poll results (he follows up here). I'll just do one or
Posted 17 hours ago
I am apparentlythe victim of an insidious force and desperately in need of an exorcism.
Posted 1 day ago
Reactions to today's announcement that second quarter GDP growth has been revised upward from 1.9 percent to 3.3 percent:A booming economy?, by Andrew Leonard: The Department of Commercehas revised it
Posted 1 day ago
There is a lot of confusion over the Fed's use of core inflation as part of its policy making process. One reason for confusion is that we using a single measure to summarize three different definitio
Posted 1 day ago
Robert Reich says it's time to link affirmative action programs to family income:Robert Reich, Marketplace: Here's an idea Democrats probably won't endorse but should: Affirmative action based on fami
Posted 1 day ago
I have been hearing today from several people not to worry, that Obama has a much better ground game going than McCain, especially in rural America, and that's what will make the difference when the
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