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  • Development economist William Easterly writes:…

  • Confidence is in short supply these days. But Tyler Cowan at Marginal Revolution points to an article that shows there is an unusual source of long…

  • How much longer can education and health services jobs jobs continue to grow?

  • Mar 14, 2009

    The savings rate

    Take a look at this chart on the personal savings rate. In about a year, the savings rate has gone from a fraction above 0% to a fraction above 4%….

  • Mar 11, 2009

    Lets get real

    Steven Pearlstein, business columist of the Washington Post, does a good job of capturing growing frustration. It worth reading the whole article…

  • A musing on the stock market…….

  • Congress is complaining that the Obama Administration is asking too much of it. Fiscal stimulus. Bank rescue. Healthcare reform. Retirement…

  • Economist Bryan Caplan at the Econolog blog highlights a new paper by Theda Skocpol of Harvard University and Suzanne Mettler at Cornell. It's a…

  • Mar 6, 2009

    Detroit

    Thanks to Mickey Kaus at Slate I saw this shocking number. The median sales price in the city of Detroit for the three months ending in January was…

  • The economy is sinking fast. The nonfarm payroll employment dropped by 651,000 in February and the unemoployment rate jumped to 8.1%. Since the…

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