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A Random Walk: October 2013
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A random walk through economics, politics, teaching, and learning. Monday, October 07, 2013. Technically the US has defaulted before. On accident, and it wasn't pretty:. Terry Zivney and Richard Marcus describe the default in The Financial Review. Sorry, I can’t find an ungated version):. Sunday, October 06, 2013. GOPers are afraid of Obamacare, but this is the scariest graph:. Paul Ryan's "solution" was to refuse to let it grow, as if this could be stopped through sheer force of will. Follow me on Twitt...
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A Random Walk: Germany the Currency Manipulator
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A random walk through economics, politics, teaching, and learning. Tuesday, October 01, 2013. Germany the Currency Manipulator. Points out that even within the most extreme version of a fixed exchange rate regime - a currency union - one can think about the misalignment of the underlying currencies (even if their are no underlying currencies). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter. Germany the Currency Manipulator. No Child Left Behind. William J. Polley.
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A Random Walk: Shut Down.
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A random walk through economics, politics, teaching, and learning. Friday, October 04, 2013. Of the consequences of the shut down. Also checkout MacroAdvisors shutdown calculator. And run your own estimates. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter. Germany the Currency Manipulator. No Child Left Behind. William J. Polley. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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A Random Walk: Obamacare
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A random walk through economics, politics, teaching, and learning. Sunday, October 06, 2013. GOPers are afraid of Obamacare, but this is the scariest graph:. Paul Ryan's "solution" was to refuse to let it grow, as if this could be stopped through sheer force of will. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Follow me on Twitter. Germany the Currency Manipulator. No Child Left Behind. William J. Polley. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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A Random Walk: April 2013
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A random walk through economics, politics, teaching, and learning. Friday, April 19, 2013. Lets not forget that what we really do with University education is run a dating service. Ed Glaeser. But it appears that broadband has improved search in more rural marriage markets. From the paper The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market:. Monday, April 01, 2013. A few more links to share:. 1 Health Inequality Declining? 3 Crying for radiologists. 4 Airline Fat tax?
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Francisco Torralba: Commentary
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Surging oil, tanking prices. Is this a temporary or a permanent fall? What are the consequences? In a 2012 TV commercial in the United States, a stage curtain goes up to reveal Nobel laureate in economics Tom Sargent. A voice asks: “Prof. Sargent, can you tell me what CD rates will be in. 8221; Sargent replies with a confident “No.” The curtain goes down. Continue reading. Eight times as high as annual tax revenue. Would the bank give you another loan if you owed eight years’ worth of income? Globally, a...
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Francisco Torralba: Misc resources
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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas U.S. economy slides. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends. Books, articles, and resources on writing, for non-fiction writers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What I've read recently. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting. Don Quijote de la Mancha / Don Quixote de la Mancha (El Libro De Bolsillo / the Pocket Book). By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Papers I've read recently. Is a group in Economics.
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Francisco Torralba: Data
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Interesting data sets that I found in the course of reading blogs, papers, etc. Grouped by topic. Exchange rate regime classification used in Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2004) " The Modern History of Exchange Rate Arrangements: A Reinterpretation. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 119(1):1-48 ( Working paper. Original source and data host:. 1946 - 2007 (monthly or annual). Wharton/NUS/Tsinghua Chinese Residential Land Price Indexes. Original source and data host:. 2004 - current (quarterly).
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