Is this as good as it gets? For the time being at least, it seems to be.
Author Archives: James_Hamilton
Why reform health care?
Amidst all the preoccupation with the procedural details of how health care legislation is likely to be implemented, I was glad to see Paul Krugman make the case for why reform is needed in the first place.
Bank supervision and the Federal Reserve
In testimony today before Congress, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke outlined his reasons why the Federal Reserve is uniquely suited to be the regulatory supervisor for U.S. banks.
2010 Econbrowser NCAA tournament challenge
If you’re both a very faithful and a very passive Econbrowser reader, for two years now you’ve sat on the sidelines while you watched other, equally faithful but less passive readers participate in the world-famous Econbrowser NCAA Tournament Challenge, in which brave souls pretend they can predict a significant number of the winners of the games of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. If so, here’s your third chance to sit on the sidelines again, or maybe even to participate this time.
The challenges ahead for world oil
University of Leeds Professor Joyce Dargay and New York University Professor Dermot Gately have a new research paper suggesting that projections from the DOE, IEA, and OPEC are underestimating the challenges ahead for meeting world oil demand.
Modeling problems in credit markets
On Friday I joined fellow blogger Mark Thoma (and a good many other economists) at a very interesting conference on financial markets held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Here I share some ideas I expressed at the conference about the directions I feel this research ought to go.
A new index of financial conditions
What do current financial indicators tell us about where the economy is headed?
Crawling forward
Another month of weakly improving auto sales.
What drives media slant?
University of Chicago professors Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro propose an answer.
Treasury Supplementary Financing Program (SFP)
The SFP, the U.S. Treasury’s program for assisting with the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, is making a sudden and dramatic comeback.