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Health Care Back In Focus

February 22, 2010

With the economy stuck firmly in its jobless trajectory, and with the Senate obdurately refusing to do anything at all, we shift our attention this week back to health care reform. After all the fuss in the wake of the Massachusetts election health care reform was presumed to have died, at least in its then […]

Economics / banking, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rates, JP Morgan Chase, monetary policy /

Inflation, Interest rates, and Bank Profits

February 19, 2010

There really isn’t much to say about today’s report on consumer price inflation: it isn’t an issue. The overall increase came in at 0.2% in January which marks the fifth straight month we have experienced that level of price increases. For the last twelve months as a whole inflation has been only 2.6%, right in […]

Economics / stimulus /

Did The Stimulus Work?

February 18, 2010

Someone asked me whether the stimulus worked. The question is fast becoming a feature of the run up to this fall’s elections. Quite why I don’t know. Of course it worked. Here’s the article in the New York Times that discusses the consensus within the world of economics – just check the chart, it tells […]

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