Showing posts with label Project Syndicate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Syndicate. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

J. Bradford DeLong finds the inflationistas' logic hard to follow, but so is his

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... the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its associated disruptions continue to cause a substantial undersupply of labor. ... The labor market ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

LOL: Anatole Kaletsky says there's been no sign of mean reversion in the post-war when US GDP 2007-2018 has underperformed 1929-1940

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Expansions Don’t Die of Old Age : History shows that US expansions since the end of World War II have varied in length from 12 months t...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

Ken Rogoff calls Adam Tooze's new book CRASHED an ambitious but flawed work

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Rogoff takes Tooze to task for certain inaccuracies and omissions, including about Rogoff's own published work. It's a longish...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Despite Fed interventions we are still left with the foregone output

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Stephen Roach, here , one of the few who openly acknowledges the still-shrunken economy: The Fed mistakenly believed that what worked ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Brad DeLong pretends that taxing the crap out of people isn't an ideology, and blames the voters for disagreeing

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Here , where you observe a liberal economist admitting that there is a price to be paid for free-trade: It is not difficult to see w...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Why capitalism, communism, socialism and fascism etc. turn out to be culs-de-sac

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Seen here : 'Mao famously speculated on the nature of contradictions in a 1937 essay: “The law of contradiction in things, that ...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Brad DeLong believes we are in a depression

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And calls it the true name for what we are experiencing, here .
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Nothing Else Is Working, So The US Federal Reserve Should Be QEing Gold Instead Of Treasuries

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So said Christopher T. Mahoney, a former Vice Chairman at Moody's, for Project-Syndicate last June, here , just not in so many words: It...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Balance Sheet Recession Continues To Restrain Aggregate Demand: US Halfway Through Its First Lost Decade

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So says Stephen Roach for Project Syndicate, here : As research by the economists Richard Caballero, Takeo Hoshi, and Anil Kashyap has shown...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Honest Liberal Calls This The Worst Consumer Recession In Modern History

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Stephen Roach of Yale University, here , points out that the rate of growth in personal consumption is just 25% of what it used to be: Over ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

You Have Been Warned

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"[T]oday’s low interest-rate dynamic is not an entirely stable one. It could unwind remarkably quickly." -- Kenneth Rogoff, here
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Unprecedented Weakness in Consumer Spending Growth in Post WWII Period

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So says Stephen Roach of Yale, here , who can't call this is a depression evidently because such anemic growth is, afterall, growth. He ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Even Ken Rogoff Knows It's A Depression But Can't Bring Himself To Say So

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We're still co-dependents in the disaster when even our truth-tellers continue to insist on the euphemism which is its rhetorical basis....
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Kenneth Rogoff on Gold

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Kenneth Rogoff for Project-Syndicate.org here weighs in on the increased interest in gold, adding the not often heard warning that rising i...