Even if the new Medicare prescription drug plan’s implementation improves, that’s just the beginning of our problems.
Strange ideas about the Iranian oil bourse
The internet can be a good source of information about issues that aren’t adequately covered by the mainstream media. It can also be a font of considerable kookiness.
Oil market jitters
The February oil futures price on NYMEX has jumped $8 a barrel in the last three weeks. It’s useful to try to put this into a broader view of what’s going on in the world oil market.
The neoclassical paradigm
Do economists have a sensible way of thinking about the world?
Long term prospects for U.S. net exports in perspective
Does the cross-border fragmentation of production mean that measured trade flows are irrelevant?
Trade figures for November
How good is the news, really?
Putting arcane symbols into Powerpoint presentations
I’ve just written up the Idiot’s Guide to Using Tex with Powerpoint. Here it is (it’s only one sentence long):
Download this, find the symbol you want, and copy and paste it into your presentation.
What’s the Fed waiting for?
The Fed is likely to stop raising rates soon. What will be the final signal that enough is enough?
Hazards of partial reading and partial equilibrium analysis
For some people, the answer to every problem is a tax cut
2005: the oil shock that didn’t bite?
All but one of the recessions in the United States since World War II have been preceded by a dramatic increase in oil prices. Did we escape unscathed in 2005?