Things to Read on the Afternoon of January 27, 2014
Must-Reads: Justin Fox: We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists: “That’s the thing about this rise in ‘extreme upper tail inequality/…. It is one of the most dramatic […]
Category: Equitablog
Afternoon Must-Read: GOP Senators Unveil First Health Care Plan in an Obamacare World
Philip Klein: GOP senators unveil first health care plan in an Obamacare world: Sens. Tom Coburn… Richard Burr… and Orrin Hatch…. Insurers would be barred from imposing lifetime limits on […]
Afternoon-Must Read: Chris Miles: America’s New Lost Generation
Chris Miles: America’s New Lost Generation, in One Map: It’s been 58 straight months with millennial unemployment above the 10% mark. This is a critical problem for the American economy, […]
Afternoon Must-Read: Matt O’Brien: Why Is the American Dream Dead in the South?
Matt O’Brien: Why Is the American Dream Dead in the South?: “The top 1 percent aren’t killing the American Dream. Something else is–if you live in the wrong place…. The […]
How to Read What We Learned About Government Policy and the Business Cycle from 2013: Monday Focus (January 27, 2014)
Mike Konczal gives his view on the issues I wrestled with during the week of January 5: Mike Konczal: In 2013, the Fed showed why fiscal policy is still important: […]
A Better Headline Would be “Mobility Stagnant as U.S. Economy Doubles”
A new working paper by economists Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Patrick Kline, Emmanuel Saez, and Nicholas Turner discusses changes in intergenerational economic mobility for people born between 1971 and 1993. […]
Evening Must-Read: Justin Fox: Income and Wealth Inequality and Immobility Are a Matter for the Moral Philosophers
Justin Fox: We Can’t Afford to Leave Inequality to the Economists: That’s the thing about this rise in ‘extreme upper tail inequality/…. It is one of the most dramatic economic […]
The Relative Efficacy of Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: Where Are the Goalposts, Anyway?: The Honest Broker for the Week of February 1, 2014
Since 1950 and before 2007, the way to bet was that, whatever the current gap between U.S. real GDP and potential output was, the U.S. economy would close 2/5 of […]
Things to Read on the Evening of January 25, 2014
Must-Reads: Mark Thoma sends us to: Dean Baker: When Someone Says Paul Krugman Called for Greenspan to Create a Housing Bubble Back in 2002, They are Trying to Say That […]
Lunchtime Must-Read: Economist Review of Brynjolfsson and McAfee
Review of The Second Machine Age: Technology and work: Learn ‘n’ go: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. By Erik Brynjolfsson and […]