World View… Does the earth belong to the rich?
The video presents safe voyages to space. “people… first-hand viscerally get that we live on a planet suspended in space … and this planet is...
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CBO Releases 2014 Long Term Budget Outlook
2014 Long Term Budget Outlook (pdf 64pp)While we are still waiting on the 2014 Social Security Report we do have today the release of CBO’s...
Birth year and partisanship
The New York Times has a wonderful graphic miss-urled http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/08/upshot/how-the-year-you-were-born-influences-your-politics.html Jon Chait points out that this URL (and a tweet) are accurate only if you...
Comment on Del Negro, Giannoni & Schorfheide (2014)
I would like to try to critique Del Negro, Giannoni & Schorfheide (2014) “Inflation in the Great Recession and New Keynesian Models” h/t Brad DeLong....
Calvo Pricing, Precautionary Saving and Financial Frictions
I'm pretty sure the title informed potential readers that this is one post to skip. If anyone was foolish enough to read this far, I...
Stopping Job Piracy in Dayton, Denver,… and maybe even Kansas City
As I have reported before, job piracy is a big problem in metropolitan areas like New York City and Kansas City. Giving subsidies to relocate...
Fixing the Border Crisis and Social Security in One Go
Stay with me here. Because I am almost serious about this proposal. Or at least it highlights the contradictions (while not Heightening the Contradictions). The...
Endurance, Shovedown and Pancaking
Noni hasn’t written a macro-philosophical op-ed for Angry Bear in a few years. She adds a different touch to our macro. By Noni...
SOCIAL SECURITY: CBO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS… MOSTLY
by Dale Coberly SOCIAL SECURITY: CBO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS MOSTLY For some time now the Social Security Trustees Report has been reported in...
Corporate Illogic
Yves smith writes: You must go, now, and read a critically important piece questioning the logic of sending American manufacturing jobs offshore. It’s titled Losing...