Why NASA quarantined the Apollo 11 astronauts

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Allan Meltzer on the 1930s Fed’s main concern

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From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=190xVQDRtHAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+History+of+the+Federal+Reserve,+Volume+1:+1%E2%80%A6+(Paperback)by+Allan+H.+Meltzer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL-rjN_NPoAhVnH7cAHdbzDjwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Steven Pinker | Talks at Google

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Joe Stiglitz predicts

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The Great Fact

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Peak coal #endcoal #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens

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The Great Society: A New History with Amity Shlaes

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What’s Your Moonshot?

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#climateemergency #globalwarming @Oxfam

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From 1659

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Australia rocketed out of the depression after the Premier’s Plan! NZ did too after cutting everything that could be cut by 20% in 1931

31 Mar 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, macroeconomics

From https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/2009b_bpea_reinhart.pdf

The 1931 massive fiscal contraction should have slowed the NZ recovery if Keynesian macroeconomics is worth more than a grain of salt

31 Mar 2020 7 Comments

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: , , ,

100 years on New Zealand unemployment rates

31 Mar 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, great depression, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: , ,

Novak and Davidson on interwar unemployment

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by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: ,

How the Medieval Church Frightened People Into Obedience

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