From FAZ:
Der Euro und der Renminbi können in ihrer internationalen Bedeutung nicht mit dem Dollar wetteifern. Die amerikanische Währung bleibt an den Finanzmärkten der Maßstab.
From FAZ:
Der Euro und der Renminbi können in ihrer internationalen Bedeutung nicht mit dem Dollar wetteifern. Die amerikanische Währung bleibt an den Finanzmärkten der Maßstab.
Public Service Announcement, for those who wish to talk intelligently about macro, instead of ranting. Here’s what I use (in response to Steven Kopits asking “What the he** do you teach your students, Menzie”). The following are free use, or older editions that have been superseded by newer.
If you’re going to willy-nilly divide things by random deflators, maybe you should read this (free) manual first.
Reader Bruce Hall disparages the use of the PCE deflator for deflating…PCE (Personal Consumption Expenditures) from the NIPA. OK, it’s true that the PCE deflator uses business facing prices, rather than consumer facing prices. Mr. Hall suggests using the CPI. But that has different weights. (It doesn’t make sense to apply a price index with CPI weights to an aggregate with PCE weights — read some price index theory if that is confusing). What to do? What to do?
Reader Bruce Hall writes:
From the Employment Situation Release:
With the employment situation release, we have a first reading on April conditions.
Are you better of than you expected four years ago? I use trend growth 2016-2019 to figure out what is “expected”.
Today, we present a guest post written by Jeffrey Frankel, Harpel Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and formerly a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. A shorter version appeared at Project Syndicate. He thanks Sohaib Nasim for research assistance.
Reader Steven Kopits writes in response to Are you better off than you were four years ago?: