Friday, February 4, 2011

When Jobs Stats Are Meaningless - and When the Media Confuses

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...Typically always true from November - January imop. But this one is particularly f***ed up.  News is reporting that according to BLS o...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

You Can Believe in the Terribleness of Bubbles and Bursts, or That We Are Facing Mainly Cyclical Unemployment Only, But Not Both

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Today I'm giving a lecture on unemployment - and a portion of it will be devoted to this year's hot debate about whether or not our ...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Brad Delong, in denouncing unexciting alternatives, promotes the same unexciting alternatives...

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Brad posts about the Obama administration's apparent lack of exciting ideas.  In it, he promotes 4 ways the administration could have ...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Is Education the Key?

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Hunter Richards recently asked me to comment on an article post entitled " Technology, Unemployment and Our Children's Future...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Strange Comment from the AP about Unemployment % Calculation

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I was reading along about the recent reduction in unemployment to 9.4% (which one must take with a grain of salt due to the holidays). An...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A reason for sticky prices

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Menu costs, yadadada.  I've always thought that was a rather weak explanation for sticky prices.  I think a better one, and one that I d...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Dream Turns into a Nightmare

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Obama's Dream Act would have been a good one - and something that makes sense economically to provide an incentive for the youngest and ...
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