Blogs about Economics
11 blogs about Economics.
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Conversable Economist
“In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”.” By Timothy Taylor. 🇺🇸Updated
Was Bailing out the Silicon Valley Bank Depositors the Right Decision? When Silicon Valley Bank failed in March 2023, the actual legal rule was that th Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insured bank deposits only up to $250,000. This is plenty for just about every household. …
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Coppola Comment
“Finance, economics and music.” By Frances Coppola. 🇬🇧 -
Econbrowser
“Analysis of current economic conditions and policy.” By James D. Hamilton, Menzie Chinn. 🇺🇸Updated
Inflation: A Decomposition to Profits, Unit Costs For nonfinancial corporate business sector, using price per unit real gross value added. Figure 1: Quarter-on-quarter inflation of price of gross value added (black line), contribution of unit labor costs (blue bar), of non-labor unit …
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EconLog - Econlib
“Bloggers … write on topical economics of interest to them, illuminating subjects from politics and finance, to recent films and cultural observations, to history and literature.” 🇺🇸Updated
A Tribute to Adam Smith a The great Adam Smith was born sometime in early June 1723. I’m not going to spend time figuring out which day because it doesn’t really matter. To commemorate Smith’s birthday, Reason magazine asked various …
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The Enlightened Economist
“Economics and business books.” By Diane Coyle. 🇬🇧Updated
Inflation, past and present I was in my teens, growing up in a Lancashire mill town, the last time stubbornly high inflation was a thing. It was a scarring experience. My parents’ wages certainly did not keep up. Rocketing …
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The Irish Economy
“Commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy.” 🇮🇪Updated
Tenure Status in Census 2022 The CSO have started releasing the results from Census 2022. Reports on selected topics will be published over the next year. The summary results for each topic are available here. The release includes details of …
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mainly macro
“Comment on macroeconomic issues.” By Simon Wren-Lewis. 🇬🇧Updated
New fiscal rules in the Eurozone, but unwarranted lack of national sovereignty persists The EU Commission has put forward proposals for the next version of fiscal rules for the Eurozone, and these have now been agreed with some amendments (see below). (Here is a useful summary of the …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
“Small Steps Toward A Much Better World.” By Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok. 🇺🇸Updated
Marc Andreessen on AI safety and AI for the world So far I have explained why four of the five most often proposed risks of AI are not actually real – AI will not come to life and kill us, AI will not ruin our …
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Stumbling and Mumbling
“An extremist, not a fanatic.” By Chris Dillow. 🇬🇧Updated
Securonomics vs productivity "Globalisation, as we once knew it, is dead" said Rachel Reeves this week. Which is a problem for anybody wanting a high-wage high-productivity economy. I say so for a simple reason: globalization in the sense …
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Tim Harford | Articles
“The Undercover Economist.” 🇬🇧Updated
What Rishi Sunak got wrong about maths As a professional nerd, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been asked what I think of Rishi Sunak’s enthusiasm for maths. It’s hard to know quite what to say. I agree with …
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Uneasy Money
“Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey.” By David Glasner. 🇺🇸Updated
Jason Furman Hyperventilates about Wages and Inflation Jason Furman has had an admirable career as an economist and policy adviser. He was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton administrations, was Assistant Director of the National Economic …
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