Noted for Your Lunchtime Procrastination for April 29, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- : "It has been astonishing, from a US perspective, to witness the limpness of Labour’s response to the austerity push. Britain’s opposition has been amazingly willing to accept claims that budget deficits are the biggest economic issue facing the nation, and has made hardly any effort to challenge the extremely dubious proposition that fiscal policy under Blair and Brown was deeply irresponsible – or even the nonsensical proposition that this supposed fiscal irresponsibility caused the crisis of 2008-2009..."
- Must-Read: : China’s True Growth Is a Mystery; Economists Weigh the Clues
- : "15.5 million people had major medical coverage in the individual insurance market – both inside and outside of the Marketplaces – as of December 31, 2014. Enrollment was up 4.8 million over the end of 2013, a 46% increase..."
- : Advance Estimate of GDP for the First Quarter of 2015
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
- Cries of Despair Induced by This Morning's Disappointing First-Quarter U.S. GDP Growth Report - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
- : What does weak U.S. economic growth in first quarter mean for the current recovery?
- : How raising the minimum wage ripples through the workforce
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And Over Here:
- Live from Century City: Jonathan Chait:: 61 Times William Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler, Churchill
- Hoisted from Paul Krugman's Archives from 2008: Ken Rogoff's Mid-2008 Desire for Tighter Money
- Liveblogging World War II: April 29, 1945: Hitler's Will (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- Comment of the Day: Charles Steindel: "As a matter of sound economic logic, it's pretty obvious that inflation targets in the US and around the world are too low...
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