Economy

By Jake Johnson, staff writer at Common Dreams.  In prepared testimony for a Senate Banking Committee hearing slated for Tuesday morning, the chair of the Federal Deposit…
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A two regime Markov switching model for the log of M2 velocity, 1959-2022, as suggested by Rick Stryker: And here are the regime probabilities, smoothed, filtered. Here’s…
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I am not attending the ASSA meeting in person this year, but I will participate via zoom in a session on Efficient and Effective Course Preparation. It is today from…
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1. Conservatives often win their battles. 2. Some Afro-Surinamese music. 3. Vyacheslav Dvornikov interviews me (in Russian).  And a related piece (in English) on Russia moving…
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The nomination of Ajay Banga as the U.S. candidate for World Bank president is welcome news. If history is any guide, Mr. Banga will be elected, maybe unanimously, as…
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US Expert Panel To Meet To Determine Which Adverse Events COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of U.S.…
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Sens. Lisa Murkowski and…
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On Wednesday, the SEC charged might-have-been Credit Suisse suitor Justin Sun with fraud and market manipulation.Titillatingly, they also charged eight celebrities who…
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When I arrived in Berkeley for my Ph.D. about 50 years ago (1973, before the Yom Kippur War), I learned that the department of Agricultural Economics, which I joined, had…
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Rapid industrialization and urbanization in the first.Technological growth and economic inequality in both.“Populism” (if we can call it that today) in both.I think calling…
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