4 days ago by Volubrjotr

UNCLE SAM AND BRITISH CROWN’S XERXES OBAMA “You Americans take pride in your logic. I suggest you employ it. Consider the beautiful land you so vigorously defend. Picture it reduced to ash at my whim! Consider the fate of your women! Unlike the cruel Stars & Stripes, which demands that you stand, I ...

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4 days ago by populareconomicsblog

Financial FAQs Why so much surprise in January’s employment report that added 243,000 payroll jobs and dropped the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent? The U.S. has now added an average of 183,000 jobs a month in the past five months, while both the manufacturing and service sectors have been expanding ...

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5 days ago

Since the early part of the recession in 2008, the Velocity of Money (M1) has dropped over 30%. Velocity measures how fast money changes hands within the economy. Having it slow significantly while the Fed boosts the M1 money supply suggests that added liquidity is not spurring economic activity or ...

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6 days ago by Michael

The week is up and I am now revealing the identities of my four mystery Keynesians. Please do not read any further or click to expand this post if you have not had a chance to read the previous post. You will spoil your own fun. Al Pacino was Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, who blogs at BlindSight 20/20. Sa ...

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6 days ago by Dan Mitchell

People often ask why I put so much political humor on this site. The easy answer is that I like a good joke. But I also find that some cartoons and jokes do a very good job of helping people understand economics. I’ve always liked this cartoon, for instance, because it cleverly illustrates the impac ...

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9 days ago by Seth

"Creating" Demand I enjoyed Arnold Kling’s column (econblogger at EconLog), Government Cannot Create Sustainable Jobs, published in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal. I think the following two paragraphs contain the most concise and understandable contrast of two competing visions on h ...

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9 days ago by Popular Economics Weekly

Popular Economics Weekly Why so much gloom and tentativeness about U.S. economic growth when all the indicators are looking up for 2012? For instance, the Conference Board’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators again showed positive growth ahead. It rose 0.4 percent with 7 of its 10 indicators posit ...

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9 days ago by populareconomicsblog

Popular Economics Weekly Why so much gloom and tentativeness about U.S. economic growth when all the indicators are looking up for 2012? For instance, the Conference Board’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators again showed positive growth ahead. It rose 0.4 percent with 7 of its 10 indicators posit ...

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10 days ago by William L. Anderson

In a recent blog post, Paul Krugman claims that the lack of spending by state and local government is undermining our "weak recovery." Of course, he understands that the decline in state and local government spending is coming about because the economies of those states are not generating the same a ...

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10 days ago by Paul Roderick Gregory

The pessimistic CBO estimates [1] of growth, deficits, and unemployment for 2012 and 2013 are big news. The Democrats use them to argue for more stimulus. The Republicans cite them as a cautionary tale against government spending. Both sides express reverence for the “non-partisan” CBO, whose calcul ...

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