Ito-McCauley Database of Individual Central Bank Reserve Holdings
Hiro Ito and Robert McCauley compiled a The dataset(mentioned first in this 2019 worksheet) of the composition of international reserves in the period 1999-2021. This […]
Month: September 2024
Benson Talks with Henderson about COVID, Lockdowns, and Fiscal Policy
I posted last month on my Substack, “I Blog to Differ,” the first part of my interview with financial planner Drew Benson, a former student […]
Goldman Sachs in the Post-Election Economy
From Alec Phillips, David Mericle and Tim Krupa (Goldman Sachs, 3 September 2024): Source link
Content Workflow | Econbrowser
NFP +142 against consensus +166. Employment is almost certainly down (remembering that this is the first release). What does this look like? Figure 1: Nonfarm […]
Half-Life of Asymmetric Information
The title of this post refers to an excellent book edited by Dan Klein and Fred Foldvary, The Half-Life of Policy Ideas: How New Technologies […]
Another zero-sum bond forecast bites the dust
Popular models of new Keynesian macroeconomics predict that reductions in various forms of indirect taxation are reduced when monetary policy is pegged to the lower […]
Two weeks after Pavel Durov’s arrest, Telegram increases rating for ‘illegal content’
The Telegram method is very confusing. By default, there is no E2EE in Telegram private or group messages. These are encrypted server side, which means, […]
Friday various links
1. Why is India so bad at sports? (FT) 2. Olivier Roy’s review of tradition. 3. Solid measurements of the Reflection 70B, a new open […]
Rob Urie: When Markets Crash and Wars Rage, Naked Capitalism Is Here to Know
By Rob Urie, author of Zen Economics, artist, and artist who publishes the Journal of Belligerent Pontification on Substack Bernie Madoff For Loot? Photo: Bernie […]
The Mummified Political Economy 25th Anniversary of The Mummy
Notice to readers: This article contains multiple spoilers for both The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001). This year we include 25th an anniversary […]