Getting people’s attention by screaming
Lifted from Robert Walmann’s… Paul Krugman wrote: The answer all the deficit-panic types offer is basically that we must cut future benefits. But why, exactly,...
Author : Angry Bear
Head scratching use of water
Bottled water is not a significant part of water use compared to agricultural use, but certainly has a heavy footprint in plastic bottles. I believe...
Farmers and who gets the money
Vis the NYT comes this look at the economics of small scale farming: Don’t let your children grow up to be farmers AT a farm-to-table...
Stakeholder capitalism
In my area the Market Basket grocery stores were between 20 to 30% cheaper than the competition given surveys and comparing the items I would...
Effective Demand’s sobering effect on the Fed’s Punchbowl
Under normal economic conditions, the Fed funds rate would be higher. Yet, the Fed funds rate has been effectively at the zero lower bound for...
Libertarian? Or Fascist-Light?
The shooting death by police of Ferguson, MO teenager Michael Brown, and what has happened in the aftermath, has been blanketing the news for the...
Understanding Piketty, part 1
Thomas Piketty’s (CV) Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most important book on economics published in this century. The book has made a huge...
Monetary Policy overshooting a Recession?
Tim Duy wrote a post yesterday called, Heading into Jackson Hole. He gives a broad perspective of the economy relevant to monetary policy, which of...
What’ll be the Matter with the US?
Paul Krugman wrote a post today called, What’s the Matter with Europe? He cites that Industrial Production is stalling out there. Now this is a...
The mayors report in on Income Inequality (and miss the conclusion).
Yesterday the Conference of Mayors and the Council on Metro Economies and the New American City released a report prepared by IHS Global Insight that...