
Economics New Zealand: Did we move too quickly?
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: monetary policy
Everyone is richer in the USA and the middle class is moving up
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, great recession, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment
The middle class is shrinking in the USA because most of of 10% shrinkage is due to them becoming rich.

Everyone is wealthier than in the past and would have been wealthier but for the Great Recession and the countless tax rises of Obama.

Milton Friedman on how New Keynesian Macroeconomics is mostly monetarism
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

A Report Card for Humanity: 1900-2050
06 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, health economics, technological progress Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
A clickable timeline of central banking activity during the 2008 financial crisis
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
This map requires the tyranny of distance types to predict the coming boom for New Zealand
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, politics - New Zealand Tags: geography, global economic hubs

HT: https://twitter.com/tutor2u_econ/status/552013472247341056?s=09
Is Euroland an optimal currency area?
05 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in currency unions, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Euroland, optimal currency area
Japanese relative economic decline
02 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in macroeconomics Tags: Japan, Lost Decade
HT: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/551952006899060736?s=09
The shrewdest summary of rational expectations economic policy was by Paul Samuelson
02 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, fiscal policy, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: new classical macroeconomics, Paul Samuelson, policy credibility, rational expectations, regime uncertainty, Stephen Williamson, time inconsistency, Tom Sargent












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