On September 13th, the Fed announced that it would start buying $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities for as long as it takes. While I appreciate the fact…
Month: September 2012
By Joana Traykova & Clara Tran The United States has been facing a significant budget deficit. At the end of fiscal year 2011, the enacted…
The Retirement of Baby Boomers Focusing on the final section, “Ham and Eggs in the Twenty-first Century,” this paper [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-4580.2000.00112.x/pdf] emphasizes the impending question of…
Atella and Carbonari ask whether the political economy of older societies appears different. Their answer is yes: older societies spend less per child. Of course…
I have two small projects as a challenge. Both would require merely the ability to download and graph BLS data. That’s below the graphs —…
By chance a friend emailed me asking about the small employment share in the US. I gave him the same quick response that I did…
Robert Gordon has posted a blog and related article Is US economic growth over? in which he argues that we’re likely back to the 18th…