My Weekly Reading and View for 11 August 2024, Part 2
by Patrick McDonald, The reasonAugust 9, 2024. Quote: In March 2021, the elementary school student, referred to in legal documents as “BB,” drew a painting […]
Month: August 2024
August Survey of Professional Forecasts: GDP
Continuous growth: Figure 1: GDP (bold black), August Survey of Professional Forecasters (bold red), July WSJ (teal), 8/8 GDPNow (blue square), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR. […]
My Weekly Reading for August 11, 2024, Part 1
The list is long so I am doing this in two parts. Part two will be later today. by Elizabeth Nolan Brown, The reasonAugust 5, […]
JD Vance: “The political leadership of this country should have a greater say in the monetary policy of the United States”
My transcription of JD Vance’s statement re: the Fed, “State of the Union”, discussed by Dana Bash today. Maybe a few words are wrong, but […]
Sunday separate links
1. Simon Kuper on the method of learning chaos (FT). 2. “Did the furniture carver at Crouch End break the code on human writing at […]
Links 8/11/2024 | bare capitalism
The Forgotten History of the Foreign Financial Crisis How the world’s oldest bank brought a city to its knees FT The weather The limits of […]
The most common place in each country?
In the United States, could it be a suburb of Columbus, Ohio? Or maybe Knoxville, Tennessee, not too far from the country’s population center? Those […]
New data on marijuana legalization
This is the subject of my latest column for Bloomberg, and here is one excerpt: What do the numbers show? A new study from the […]
Inflation in Russia M/M at 1.1% in July
As reported by Rosstat, via TradingEconomics: On an annualized basis, this is 14%. Y/Y inflation is 9.1%. The standard policy rate stands at 18%. If […]
Top Recession Indicators | Econbrowser
Weekly Lewis/Mertens/Stock and Baumeister/Leiva-Leon/Sims indexes, plus Torsten Slok index. Figure 1: Lewis/Mertens/Stock Weekly Economic Index (blue), and Baumeister/Leiva-Leon/Sims Weekly Economic Conditions Index for US and […]