Thursday, January 26, 2017

Tear down this wall, Mr. 46th president

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Excellent article on the wall with Mexico, by the Cato Institute. My questions and comments: 1) Since a) the only effective wall w...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Economist of the month: Richard Cantillon

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Was Cantillon the real father of economics, or just the first modern economist? Harry Landreth and David Colander, on History of Economic ...

What does a futurist do?

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Metropolis " What futurists actually do is facilitate as groups of people work through a highly structured, sometimes months-long ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

New(ish) paper on the Shiller CAPE ratio, by J. Siegel

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Published in the May/June issue of the Financial Analysts Journal (vol. 72, no. 3) . I'm not sure it it's gated, so you can find a ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Robots for everything: Teaching assistants

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From the Washington Post: (Thanks to @JustinWolfers for his tweet.) My thoughts after reading this article: 1. Robots can be more v...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

"I still hold out some hope": James Bullard on the U.S. becoming Japan

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Refreshingly outspoken James Bullard, from the St. Louis Fed, gives an interview to the New York Times. Some great quotes (emphasis mine):...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Q1 GDP nowcasts

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Atlanta Fed's nowcast of Q1 GDP (0.6%) was really close to preliminary estimate announced today by BEA (0.5%). Atlanta's was much c...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Brief comments on the elections in Spain

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A little closer to Italy. The fragmentation of the vote was the expected and actual result of yesterday's general election. Incumbent Pa...