Economics

Economics attempts to explain how the behavior of consumers, businesses, and governments affect unemployment, inflation, interest rates, and Gross National Product (GNP). GNP here means the value of all goods and services produced by a country over a specific period of time. Based upon changes in GNP or government spending, for instance, economics helps to estimate the positive or negative impact on unemployment, inflation, or interest rates.

In the blogosphere, writers often use the economics tag in the context of politics and public policy debates regarding unemployment, government spending, or taxes. Another popular topic is the affect public policy decisions have on stock markets. The economics tag would be relevant to discussions involving recession, financial crisis, or economic crisis.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “Economics”

• in Business
  Oklahoma City Flourishes Despite Recession
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  by JenX67 / on Oct 18, 2009
• in Politics
  Recovery Shmovery: The Economic Meltdown of 2008 is FAR from Over
  A list of reasons why "the recovery" is a myth.
  by lordonlow / on Oct 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Economics”

• "The Fed Is Already Transparent"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 697
  Anil Kashyap and Frederic Mishkin are worried that the Ron Paul proposal to audit the Fed will "cripple policy making": The Fed Is Already Transparent, by Anil Kashyap and Frederic Mishkin : Under the banner of increasing Federal Reserve transparency, Congressman Ron Paul has sponsored a bill that would subject the ...
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• Green shoots!

  
  Vox Popoli — Authority: 611
  One of the economic measures I track actually showed signs of life! Total loans and leases at commercial banks increased by $12.4 billion the week of October 28th, the first weekly increase since May 27th. Of course, that little uptick was only a two-week rise of $15.7 billion and preceded a five-month, $451.4 ...
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• What’s with China

  
  A Brief History... — Authority: 123
  There are growing suspicions that China may be heading for a collapse. The first inkling of this was in Stratfor.com’s chief George Friedman’s book , The Next 100 Years . My review of the book is here . Here is an excerpt: His analysis of Russia and China seem very astute and correlate with other reliable ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Incoming — Authority: 128
  Unsustainable food marketing... Compare and contrast the following news items.  First, the connection between obesity and minimum wage levels. Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Cold Spring Shops — Authority: 482
  THE INTUITION OF SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT. Professor Munger. One more shot at explanation: suppose the high temp in NC for each day in January stuck at 56 degrees. And suppose it stayed at 56 degrees for the daily high all through the summer. Would you say that the climate stayed the same? No, you would say that the ...
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• 1933 template for todays crisis

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  i found an article related to my post yesterday Meltdown of our econonomy Who when and how This article by Howard Katz, showing where FDR and the gang set an early template for the boys in wallstrreet and washington;;;and then theres congress… …an event which happened on March 9, 1933. F.D.R. rammed a bill ...
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• Curb the Fed’s Powers

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  The question is……. how exactly to do it…… I think we can all agree that there is not ANY justifiable reason to continue to allow a non-government entity to have the incredible power that it holds, and hold over both our currency and our government…… this just came over the AP about an hour ago now: ...
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• Econ 115: Mao Zedong, Plus Japan from Meiji to the Louvre

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 731
  Econ 115: November 10 Lecture Audio
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• The Story So Far, In One Picture

  
  Castro's Favorite Color — Authority: 137
  Paul Krugman wrote last week: The story so far, in one picture :
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• "The United States is an outlier among rich nations, and only Russia and Mexico, two middle-income..."

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 513
  “The United States is an outlier among rich nations, and only Russia and Mexico, two...
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• Mishkin Makes Friends

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 513
  crazynutjob:Former Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin wrote a piece in the FT called Not all bubbles...
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• redorangeorangeonred:i saw this and decided to do it. . i...

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 513
  redorangeorangeonred : i saw this and decided to do it. . i assumed that “the people like me” would be the lowest.  .. turns out the other gender is lower.  .. but i am not really surprised [click thru to do it yourself]
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• LRAD weapon at the Olympics

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col…er-police.html Video http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/player….pid=1325962588 It’s just a communication tool…Trust us… http://www.audionation-uk.com/LRAD500.html http://www.marketwire.com/press-rele…CO-937142.html
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• LRAD weapon at the Olympics

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col…er-police.html Video http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/player….pid=1325962588 It’s just a communication tool…Trust us… http://www.audionation-uk.com/LRAD500.html http://www.marketwire.com/press-rele…CO-937142.html
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• Dollar Will be Utterly Destroyed (via SignificantImagery)

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 513
  Dollar Will be Utterly Destroyed (via SignificantImagery )
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• Turn The Middle Side Topwise

  
  Albany Media Bias — Authority: 140
  Nothing like a Simpsons quote* to enliven the train wreck that is the Democratic leadership. I just passed along how the Democrats are trying to grab full control over our economic system (forget about health cares 17%!) by putting the government in charge of basically everything about companies - what they can ...
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• Richard Thaler Explains Behavioral Economics & Public Policy

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 585
  *H/T Farnam Street For finding this Richard Thaler outlines how principles from behavioral economics can help policymakers — and managers — achieve better outcomes. Click Here To Read: Richard Thaler Explains Behavioral Economics & Public Policy Q: Could you explain some of the key ideas in Nudge ...
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• The Good News Is Still Less Bad News

  
  Financial Armageddon — Authority: 650
  Even though they create more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic product and employ half of all private sector employees, small businesses have borne a disproportionate share of the broad dropoff in demand and cutbacks in bank lending. Moreover, because these firms lack the influence-peddling resources of ...
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• "Peak Oil" again raises its head

  
  TYWKIWDBI — Authority: 596
  I dont know what to make of the graph or the attendant story in the Guardian . Heres the gist: The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear ...
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• Steve Forbes: Why Capitalism Will Save Us

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 693
  Steve Forbes, who may have been the last viable Republican Presidential candidate worth voting for, was on Morning Joe this morning talking about his new book How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today’s Economy Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , ...
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