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BAA BAA BLACKSHEEP —
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Im done working (things at home, not real job type work) for today I think. I just want to sit with a book and my knitting and get sucked in to that little bit of fiction for a couple of hours before bed. Sounds like a good plan right? Chris is up in his office rewriting a profile in a way that sounds very ...6 days ago -
PPP-Plaid!
Baa Bonny Belle —
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Another one off the loom. This one is a balanced plaid...no random weft here...except maybe where I left kept out a row of red. I can scratch this off my gift list and keep moving on to the next victims giftees present.1 week ago -
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The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
More evidence that job growth could be strong going forward. Poll: "two-thirds of Americans favor taxing the rich to reduce the deficit." Maybe inflating away (some) of the debt is possible after all . Feldstein: Dollars decline will be short-lived . The inverse relationship among hedge funders between pay ...2 weeks ago -
Is the Administrations Economic Thinking Incoherent?
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Authority: 129
Brad DeLong parses my piece today on the administrations struggle to create jobs while still minding the deficit and pronounces himself "increasingly bewildered about administration thinking." He raises several fair points. I figured Id try to provide a bit more background on each one in response. 1.) Refering ...2 weeks ago -
Has Goldman Outsmarted Itself on Bonuses?
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
My first thought upon reading that Goldman is restructuring bonuses for its top 30 executives was that this is designed to preempt much more extreme measures, like an American version of the British bonus tax . My second thought was, "Great, we should do this for every bonus on Wall Street, every year." (At ...2 weeks ago -
Obamas Final Four
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
No, not that final four . This final four, from the OMB blog : [E]arlier this year, President Obama launched the SAVE Award — a program that offered every federal employee the chance to submit ideas about how government can save money and perform better. Over the course of three weeks, federal employees ...2 weeks ago -
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The New Republic - the stash Feed —
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Will payroll tax overtake personal income tax for first time? Treasury extends TARP through next October. Might payday loans actually improve well-being ? Post-Dubai World shock waves reach Union Square, NY . Colbert sends up the Fed.2 weeks ago -
Should the U.K. Tax Banker Bonuses at 50%? Should We?
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
I havent completely thought through the pluses and minuses of the one-time, 50-percent tax on banker bonuses that British Finance Minister Alistair Darling just proposed , but it definitely sounds appealing at first blush. Heres how the Times describes it : Banks will be charged a 50 percent tax on 2009 ...2 weeks ago -
Bull in China Shop
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf has a particularly good summary today of the danger that China’s undervalued currency poses to the world economy. As Wolf points out, China’s “real exchange rate is … no higher than in early 1998 and has depreciated by 12 per cent over the past seven months, even ...2 weeks ago -
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The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
Meredith Whitney predicts predatory lending will rise. The Brits look to charge a super-tax of 50+% on banker bonuses. Tyler Cowen on how universities might actually start to value teaching prowess. Paul Volcker has serious doubts about the benefits of financial innovation. But Eugene Fama concludes that ...2 weeks ago -
Parsing Obamas Speech on the Economy
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
The president appeared at the Brookings Institution this morning to announce several key job-creating measures as a kind of tangible follow-up to last weeks jobs summit. But between Obamas speech and a background briefing by senior administration officials beforehand, I detected four other goals on the economic ...2 weeks ago -
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The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
Many bank executives cashed-out before worst of crisis. Obama may use TARP funds for jobs programs . Employed prime-age males at lowest level on record. Increased desire to save among Americans is unlikely to last . The toll the crisis has taken on Bernankes beard .2 weeks ago -
Pricing the Advantage of Being "Too Big to Fail"
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
How much is it worth to banks to grow in size and complexity in order to become systemically important? Getting a handle on this number could be important if we decide to tax bank size in order to deal with the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem. In a new Philadelphia Fed paper , Elijah Brewer and Julapa Jagtiani ...2 weeks ago -
Meet the White House Manufacturing Czar
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
I just wanted to highlight my latest print piece for readers who come straight to this blog rather than clicking through from the homepage. Its about White House manufacturing czar Ron Bloom, a longtime steelworkers union official and an investment banker before that. Just prior to his current gig, Bloom led ...2 weeks ago -
Dept. of Self-Absorption, Jobs Summit Edition
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
An absolutely priceless moment from yesterdays jobs summit, courtesy of The New York Times : Mr. Obama told the chief executives that he wanted to know: “What’s holding back business investment and how we can increase confidence and spur hiring? And if there are things that we’re doing here in Washington ...3 weeks ago -
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The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
A sign that the unemployment rate has peaked . Geithner: 85% of the $205 billion in bank bailout money to be repaid by end of 2010. Should the Fed buy an additional $2 trillion in Treasuries? Lehmans risk officer asked to leave room during meetings about...... risk . Kevin Drum agrees with me on ...3 weeks ago -
Is Inequality Good for the Federal Budget?
The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
Felix Salmon is super-pessimistic about the prospects for government action on reducing income disparities: [W]hen you have a progressive tax system, especially when there are surcharges on people making seven-figure incomes, you also have a system where for any given level of national income, the greater the ...3 weeks ago -
Good News on Unemployment, With One Ominous Sign
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Authority: 129
So its hard not to like todays unemployment report : the economy only lost 11,000 jobs in November, a number so small the Labor Department considers the employment level "essentially unchanged" from October. Thats after shedding an average of 135,000 jobs in each of the previous three months. And even that ...3 weeks ago -
Bernanke Testifies: Is the Chairman Risking the Feds Independence?
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Conservatives like to quip that, for the average member of Congress, spending other people’s money is the best part of the job. If that’s true, then grilling the Fed chairman after a financial crisis has to rank a close second. The members of the Senate Banking Committee didnt hold back when Ben Bernanke made his ...3 weeks ago -
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The New Republic - the stash Feed —
Authority: 129
Fed believes asset purchases lowered 10-year Treasury yields by 0.5%. Why didnt the Canadian housing market go bust ? The service sector contracted in November. Level of private savings in China now equal to savings in US. Does Bernanke understand the concept of comparative advantage ?3 weeks ago
