Jackson Hole 2015 Weblogging
- Grifters and Goldbugs and Bears, Oh My!: Jackson Hole 2015 Weblogging
- What Recovery? Possible Slides for Jackson Lake Lodge/Grand Teton Teach-In
- Liberal Activism!: Federal Reserve Jackson Hole 2015 Weblogging Edition
- Must-Read: I think that Paul Krugman's jump from the first to the second paragraph I quote below is wrong--or at least much too hasty: Reason is not that Cunning...
- None of Concerns About Inflation, Employment, Financial Stability, or Inequality Justify Raising Interest Rates Over the Next Year or So...
- Must-Read: Let me note, in agreement with Summers, that, all four times in the past forty years that the Federal Reserve has embarked on a significant tightening cycle, the tightening has revealed significant and dangerous previously-underappreciated financial vulnerabilities...
- Comment of the Day: Charles Steindel: "Forget about 2% vs. 4% as a target. Fed speak... is clearly viewing 2% as a ceiling!...: Jackson Hole 2015 Weblogging:
- Musing on Right-Wing Affinity Fraud in Politics and Economics...
- Jackson Hole 2015 Weblogging: Must-Read: Noah Smith makes an extremely cogent case that any increases in interest rates by the Federal Reserve this September for this December or, indeed, next March are almost surely premature and inappropriate. So why is the Federal Reserve on track to do so?...
- What Rates of Economic Growth Could Better Economic Policy Produce Over an Eight-Year Presidential Term?
- Must-Read: Elise Gould: Prime-Age Employment-to-Population Ratio Remains Terribly Depressed...
- Comment of the Day: Jackson Hole 2015 Weblogging The Idler: Lehman Brothers Once Again...: Fed transcripts: Bernanke chose to let Lehman fail...
- Comment of the Day: Jackson Hole Weblogging: Philip Wallach: Federal Reserve ad Hocracy,Precedent, and Legal Realism...
- Must-Read: It is interesting that these days even Dean Baker is calling 215,000 net jobs a strong-growth month. I would still require more than 300,000 a month for 'strong'...
- Must-Read: A set of model runs backing up the judgment of the very sharp--and, alas!, late--Federal Reserve Governor Ned Gramlich: increases in interest rates large enough to discourage a housing bubble would me much too large for there to be even a faint prayer that the economy could escape a damaging recession...
- Today's Economic History: Rudi Dornbusch Comments on Ken Rogoff's Mundell-Fleming Lecture
- Gilder, Moore, Steil, Schiff, DeMint. Would it be possible to put together a set of speakers who have been more wrong in their predictions over the past generation about how the economy works, and less willing to do anything to mark their beliefs to market? I do not think so... American Principles Project: FIVE WEEKS: Historic Economic Summit to Take Place in Jackson Hole...
- Must-Read: The very sharp Ken Rogoff calls for Europe to undertake The Acceptable Year of the Lord--cancel the debts, and redistribute the land...
- Must-Read: This remarkable tendency to abandon policies that... have worked.... The Republican Party could be taking... well-deserved victory laps... [for example] the monetary policies of Republican Ben Bernanke gave the United States the best recovery from 2009 in the North Atlantic.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Koch Brothers: 'A tiny splinter group... that believes you can do these things... a few... Texas oil millionaires... an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid...