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The 8th edition of my intermediate macroeconomics text will come out in June, ready for fall classes. One significant change in this edition is that some of the existing material has been reorganized. Over the past several years, monetary policymakers at the Federal Reserve have engaged in a variety of unconventional measures to prop up a weak banking system and promote recovery from a deep recession.
Greg Mankiw's Blog
The Economy and the Economics of Everyday Life - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
Two candidates from emerging-market countries have been put forward for the presidency of the World Bank, along with the Obama administration’s nominee, setting up the first contested election in the history of the development institution, which is based in Washington. The American contender , Jim Yong Kim, a global health expert and the president of Dartmouth College, is considered the favorite. On Monday, I posted excerpts from a conversation with one of the challengers, José Antonio Ocampo, a former Colombian finance minister.
Rational Irrationality : The New Yorker
On the face of things, the March employment report, which came in considerably weaker than expected, is bad news for the 12.7 million Americans who are still out of work; for the Obama campaign,which received a big boost by the uptick in payroll growth during prior months; and for commentators like me, who have argued that the pace of the recovery is picking up. The economy only created 120,000 jobs last month. The new report appeared to confirm the warnings of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who said the other day that the recent gains in employment might not be sustained.
Poverty and Financial Distress Would Have Been Substantially Worse in 2010 Without Government Action, New Census Data Show — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Six temporary federal initiatives enacted in 2009 and 2010 to bolster the economy by lifting consumers’ incomes and purchases kept nearly 7 million Americans out of poverty in 2010, under an alternative measure of poverty that takes into account the impact of government benefit programs and taxes.
The Palgrave Econolog - Zeitgeist
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Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com
I’ve been getting the predictable hysterical reactions to today’s column. And it’s true — I’m a Sharia Jewish atheist Marxist who hates America! Bwahahaha!
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed
pkedrosky Conclusive proof that bits roll downhill: Outbound b/w from Mammoth (el. 8000 ft) is 6x inbound.