Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment (blue, left log scale), industrial production (red, right log scale). NBER defined recession dates shaded gray. Source: BLS, Fed via FRED, NBER.
Just So You Know: Watergate and Recession
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Update: Mr. Stephen Moore’s Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Below are the peer-reviewed journal articles authored or co-authored by Stephen Moore, CNN “economic expert”:
This list might be incomplete.
His non-peer reviewed articles/books include the annually published Rich States, Poor States, and the associated Laffer-Moore-Williams economic outlook ranking. My assessment of the empirical relevance of their index is in this post.
Inversion!
Of the 10yr-3mo spread.
MMT for the ADD
I’ve written up a draft set of notes for my undergraduate macro students. Here is my interpretation of Modern Monetary Theory for them. Comments welcome. Continue reading
NYC Minimum Wage Devastates NYC Employment in Sector X
On vacation!
Menzie might be abut slow on approving comments…and fixing errors and omissions…
Self-Professed Policy Analyst Predicts Minimum-Wage Induced Employment Disaster [CORRECTED]
[Graph corrected 3/18 of 3/15 post– apologies to all for the error of using NY-wide series in the earlier post] New York City. Inveterate commenter Steven Kopits cites an article from some publication called “Liberty Nation”:
Self-Professed Policy Analyst Predicts Minimum-Wage Induced Employment Disaster
In New York City. Inveterate commenter Steven Kopits cites an article from some publication called “Liberty Nation”:
“Integration or Disintegration? The Future of Global Governance and the Global Economy”
That’s the title of this year’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs Spring Symposium, on April 3 (organized by Mark Copelovitch and myself):
More information and registration here.
Our spring symposium two years ago focused on Europe in Crisis, bringing in Gillian Tett (FT), and Peter Hall (Harvard) as keynote speakers.
Guest Contribution: “The ECB has reached the end of its rope, leaving the eurozone with few options”
Today, we are fortunate to present a guest contribution written by Ashoka Mody, Charles and Marie Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Previously, he was Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund’s Research and European Departments.