Fed
Durable goods: More economic green shoots
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Durable goods purchases were up in December, reinforcing the feeling that the economy is making a recovery. Should we believe the hype?
Watching the Fed
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tomorrow the Federal Reserve Bank will let all 17 members of its committee publicly reveal they think will happen to interest rates in the coming months and years. Will this be good news for nervous markets?
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Reg-you-lay-shun
Friday, February 27, 2009
Our economic blogging conference has broken into smaller groups for lunch, and the session I'm attending is called "The Fate of Finance." The...
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Airplane Reading
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I read some interesting stuff on my flight to Kansas City, which I'll get to in a moment. But first, my flight. I don't fly Southwest often, but...
Buzzworthy
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Times-Picayune to cut back jobs and production schedule
As someone born and breaded in New Orleans I'm sorry to see this news from my hometown paper, but as someone who's found reading it an...
BostonPeng | May 24, 2012
High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
Hi,
First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...
kingjon | May 18, 2012 Time to bring back Glass-Steagall?
I can finally agree with Robert Reich100%. To our detriment, banks have forgotten that there is a difference between manipulating money, and...
pauliswood | May 16, 2012
