From an article with Isao Kamata, in the Spring 2013 La Follette Policy Review:
Author Archives: Menzie Chinn
Wisconsin Employment Situation in April
Newly released BLS data indicate an absence of strong employment growth.
Are There Reasonable Approaches to Fiscal Consolidation?
According to the CBO, under the President’s budget, the deficit hovers around 2% of GDP, and debt-to-GDP stabilizes through 2023 at levels lower than today’s.
Koch’s Coke
…in Detroit
Here is striking photo of a pile of by-product of processing Canadian tar sands oil, from NY Times:
George Akerlof on the Response to the Financial Crisis and Great Recession
In a blogpost taking stock of the IMF conference on lessons from the crisis, the Nobel laureate distills the lessons learned.
Crowding Out Watch, Heritage Edition
The Heritage Foundation’s Salim Furth writes:
The Multiplier in Action
The impact of contractionary fiscal policies, from NY Times, based on Moody’s Analytics estimates.
Guest Contribution: “Addressing China’s macroeconomic imbalances through sectorial reforms”
Today we are fortunate to have a guest contribution written Hiro Ito (Portland State U.) and Ulrich Volz (U. London SOAS and DIE). This article is based Ito and Volz (RIE, 2013).
Semester’s Coda
Crowding Out Watch, Continued
The end of the semester has arrived, and as I prepared my last lecture, I checked to see how the government deficits had impacted yields. Real yields were pretty much as they were when the semester began in January.
Heritage Assesses the Ever-Expanding Ever-Centralizing Federal Government Sector
In a graphically interesting discussion of the April employment situation release, James Sherk and Salim Furth write: