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Narayana Kocherlakota: Monetary Policy Actions and Fiscal Policy Substitutes

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

On many occasions when the Fed was dragging its feet in terms of implementing a second round of quantitative easing, I made the claim that fiscal poli...

Tags: fiscal policy

Resolving Uncertainty About Future Growth

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Christina Romer:It's the Big Questions That Slow Growth, by Christina Romer, Commentary, NY Times: Uncertainty is frequently blamed for the sorry st...

Tags: congress economy fiscal

The Employment Report

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

This is not the report we've been waiting for. Unemlpoyment has risen from 9.6 percent to 9.8 percent, and job growth is very low:The unemployment ra...

Tags: congress policy

Paul Krugman: Freezing Out Hope

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Obama is wasting his political capital on unreciprocated, counterproductive bipartisan gestures:Freezing Out Hope, by Pau Krugman, Commentary, NY Tim...

Tags: congress deficit economy legislation policy

Stop the Unemployed from Becoming Unemployable

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

As the duration of unemployment rises, the probablity of finding a job falls rapidly: Will Today's Unemployed Become Tomorrow's Unemployable?, by Cath...

Tags: policy

links for 2010-12-02

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Obama, GOP in quiet talks to extend tax cuts - washingtonpost.comHow Banks Pawned Junk to the Fed - NYTimes.comThe Truth About the Federal Budget Defi...

Tags: deficit economy policy

The Erosion of Employer-Based Health Coverage

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

A quick one between classes (last day of the quarter!). Shannon Spillane of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains how the Affordable Hea...

Tags: policy

Election Does Not Spell Cleantech Doom

In Alternative Energy Stocks - Posted 2 years ago

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Tags: cleantech

Cheap Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

In Random Rogers Big Picture - Posted 2 years ago

There was something of an odd Heard on the Street article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal titled Are Stock Investors Asleep At The Wheel. Based on ...

Tags: analysis economic journal policies policy studies

Making Peace in the US-China Trade War

In Economist's View - Posted 2 years ago

Dean Baker argues that mechanisms such as an effective policy of work-sharing, like the one in Germany can be used to redistribute the costs and ben...

Tags: deficit demand policy

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