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Economics / exports, Federal Reserve Board, GDP, imports, inflation, interest rates, oil prices, recovery, trade deficit, unemployment /

Trade Worsens; Realism at the Fed

May 11, 2011

A mixed bag today: the US trade gap widened, despite a good increase in exports; and Sandra Pianalto, the head of the Cleveland Fed, made a very sensible speech in which she talked down inflation expectations, and gave a quite gloomy view of the job market. The trade gap widened to a nine month high […]

Economics / deficits, Federal Budget, Federal Debt, federal deficits, fiscal policy /

Boehner’s One Liner

May 9, 2011

I love John Boehner. He is so funny. Maybe he didn’t mean to be, but I laughed nonetheless. I just caught his comments at The Economic Club of New York. Hilarious. And he spits out those one-liners with such a straight face. How does he do it? I know I couldn’t. Like the one about […]

Commentary, Economics /

Where is the Redistribution Debate?

May 9, 2011

The central issue of our contemporary economy is the enormous skew in the distribution of wealth and incomes towards those who run the place. Our economic system has been shifted to favor the elite group who wield the power. It is always thus of course. But periodically societies have the opportunity to take stock and […]

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