The Wisdom of Slate.com
Here’s a new article in Slate by Allison Benedikt : You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad...
Author : TheMoneyIllusion
Bringing market monetarism down under
My trip to Australia started off at a Centre for Independent Studies conference outside of Brisbane. It’s a classical liberal think tank where business people,...
Recent links
I’m still catching up on things, but here are a few pieces worth reading. Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg: My guess is that Obama doesn’t know,...
Why Would Tapering Hurt Indonesia?
Tyler Cowen has a new post discussing the financial strains in developing Asia. At the end he suggests that some of their problems are due...
Where Obama Went Wrong
In the previous post comment section Jim Glass provided me with this quotation from President Obama: “I want a Fed chairman that can step back...
Kevin Erdmann on LFPR
Here’s Kevin Erdmann (aka kebko): Here is the forecast, appended to actual past LFP rates (in blue): . . . . . . . ....
Other Fields are Taking Notice
Some liberals seem to believe that all the good progressive monetarists are dead, and that the conservative movement is left with nothing but austerian neanderthals....
Good pragmatism, bad pragmatism
Matt Yglesias comments on Paul Krugman throwing in the towel: Paul Krugman says he used to consider himself a “free market Keynesian” but doesn’t anymore ...
The Yellen/Summers debate
There’s been a lot of discussion of the relative advantages of Yellen and Summers, but most of it has missed the point. Here’s one commonly expressed view...
About the GDP Number
Back in April I predicted a weak 2nd quarter RGDP number, mostly due to the sequester. Tomorrow morning we will find out whether I was...