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“China’s efforts to expand the international use of the renminbi”
That’s the title of a new, and illuminating, report written by Eswar Prasad. The entire report is here. This is a must-read for those interested in RMB internationalization.
Mass Shooting Casualties Trending Up (Again)
Figure 1: 12 month moving average of mass shooting casualties; deaths (dark red), wounded (pink). Source: Mother Jones, GunViolenceArchive.org. for January 2016, and author’s calculations.
Update, 2/5 1:45PM Pacific: Title amended to address m4570d0n‘s pedantic comment.
Update, 2/6, 10:30AM Pacific: Reader joe argues per capita figures would be more intuitively accessible. Here is the relevant graph.
Figure 2: 12 month moving average of mass shooting casualties per million; deaths (dark red), wounded (pink). Source: Mother Jones, GunViolenceArchive.org. for January 2016, and author’s calculations.
Note: Mother Jones used a 4 death threshold for definition of mass shooting; I have used that criterion for tabulating January 2016 numbers.
Managing the Fed’s balance sheet
Last week I discussed the tools that the Federal Reserve will be using to raise short-term interest rates as we enter the next phase of U.S. monetary policy. In brief, the Fed plans to use interest on reserves and reverse repurchase agreements as an offer to borrow back Federal Reserve deposits at an annual rate between 25 and 50 basis points (0.25% to 0.50% interest per year). That offer from the Fed puts an effective floor under the fed funds rate, which is the rate at which institutions would lend these funds overnight to other banks. When the Fed raises its offering rate, the fed funds rate should go up with it. Today I look at the implications of these new procedures for the Fed’s balance sheet.
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Mass Shooting Casualties, by Religion of Perpetrator: Muslim vs. Non-Muslim
Update, 6/12/2016, 4:15PM Pacific:
Here are two figures, with data updated to 6/12.
Figure 0a: 12 month moving average of mass shooting casualties; deaths inflicted by non-Muslims (dark red), wounded inflicted by non-Muslims (pink), deaths inflicted by Muslims (dark blue), wounded inflicted by Muslims (light blue). June observation for data through June 12. Source: Mother Jones, news reports for June 2016 and author’s calculations. Tabulations of religion of perpetrator by author.
Figure 0b: Cumulative sum of mass shooting casualties, beginning in 1982M08; deaths inflicted by non-Muslims (dark red), wounded inflicted by non-Muslims (pink), deaths inflicted by Muslims (dark blue), wounded inflicted by Muslims (light blue). June observation for data through June 12. Source: Mother Jones, news reports for June 2016 and author’s calculations. Tabulations of religion of perpetrator by author.
Some Public Policy Would be Useful
More so than some mere words.
Republican Outreach to Asian-American Voters Continues
After a catastrophic failure to attract Asian-American votes in the 2012 presidential election [1], the RNC has dedicated itself to capturing a larger share of this bloc; Jeb Bush has argued that Asian-Americans constitute a natural Republican constituency.[2]
Source: NPR (Sept. 16, 2015).
Great Moments in Presidential Debate Statements
“The Great Wall of China is 13,000 miles long!”
— Donald Trump, 6:25PM Central time, 10/28/2015
“Collapse and Revival : Understanding Global Recessions and Recoveries”
That’s the title of a new book by Ayhan Kose and Marco Terrones, just released.
To what problem is this legislation a solution to?
People with concealed weapon licenses would be allowed to carry guns inside the buildings and classrooms of Wisconsin’s public universities and colleges under a bill introduced Monday by two state legislators.