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
  Industrial Production Down, Stocks Slump Slightly
  Reports indicate that October industrial production grew less than forecasted. Markets marginally affected by the news.
  by bryanmckay / on Nov 17, 2009
• in Business
  Bernanke: Markets Tied to U.S. Currency
  Today, the financial markets hinged on every word by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as he made a speech at the Economic Club of New York.
  by DrDouglasRice / on Nov 16, 2009
• in Business
  Oklahoma City Flourishes Despite Recession
  Oklahoma City tramples out new vintage; emerges as one of nation's best places for housing, business
  by JenX67 / on Oct 18, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “economics”

• George Soros On Reflexivity And Fallibility–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 433
  REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 01/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 02/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 03/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 04/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 05/13 REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY – Part 06/13 REFLEXIVITY ...
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• Washington Post—Democrats likely have votes needed to move ahead on reform bill debate

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) appeared Saturday to secure the 60 votes needed to move an $848 billion health-care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate, as the last two holdouts in his Democratic caucus said they will not join in a Republican filibuster. After days of indecision, Sens. Blanche ...
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• Stabilities and Instabilities in the Macroeconomy

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 704
  More on whats wrong with modern macro, this time from Axel Leijonhufvud: Stabilities and instabilities in the macroeconomy, by Axel Leijonhufvud, Vox EU : Fifty-some years ago, students were taught that the private sector had no tendency to gravitate to full employment, that it was prone to undesirable fluctuations ...
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• Rowan Williams’ Keynote Address the TUC Economics Conference Earlier this Week

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  Human beings all begin their lives in a state of dependence. They need to learn how to speak, how to trust, how to negotiate a world that isnt always friendly. They need an environment in which the background is secure enough for them to take the necessary risks of learning – where they know that there are some ...
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• Satan, the great motivator: The curious economic effects of religion!!

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 579
  Is this data mining or a sign? ” They found that religion has a measurable effect on developing economies - and the most powerful influence relates to how strongly people believe in hell.” Click Here To Read: Satan, the great motivator: The curious economic effects of religion!! Introduction (Via ...
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• Stabilities and instabilities in the macroeconomy

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 579
  My favorite sentence from this article, ” We lack an anchored understanding of the nature of the reality that economics is supposed to illuminate.” *Post dedicated to James Montier Click Here To Read: Stabilities and instabilities in the macroeconomy Synopsis (Via Vox.eu) Economics lacks an anchored ...
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• Life in Boulder, part dieux

  
  Piece Of Mind — Authority: 428
  This more or less recaps a conversation between my wife and I as we ate breakfast this morning while looking though a window at the Court House lawn in Boulder: H: That must be a homeless guy over there. I wonder where he stays at night. M: Is that a sleeping bag? H: I wonder how these people can afford to be ...
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• The Very Best Short Summary of Adam Smith’s Life and Work

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 579
  Gavin Kennedy has linked to an interesting review of Adam Smith’s life… enjoy! Click Here To Read: The Very Best Short Summary of Adam Smith’s Life and Work Introduction (Via Adam Smith Lost Legacy) Chris Berry, Professor of Political Theory at University of Glasgow is a leading expert on the life and ...
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• END THE FED – HR 3996, the Automatic Bailout Bill of 2009

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 558
  My comments as those masters of disaster, the U.S. Congress, create a horrible bill, the Financial Stability Improvement Act of 2009, and on the fate of Ron Paul’s Audit the FED bill, HR 1207. Originally published November 20, 2009 at ...
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• Société Générale and Global Collapse

  
  Grand Rants — Authority: 519
  Okay, don’t listen to me… I admit that I don’t know spit about sunshine. But when it comes to universal economic implosion, I’ve ranted about David Walker , Glen Beck , and Lou Dobbs forever. I’m pretty sure I’ve put up at least eight rants on this issue. Fine… Don’t listen to me or any of us for ...
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• The Democrats: Lying Their Way to More Power?

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 141
  The record of the Democrats since attaining office has not been good, at least from the perspective of the average American. Let’s look at their key agenda points: Global Warming, as such has long been seen as a lie. That lie was unarguably exposed as such the other day. We’re told that the bailout spending ...
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• Tax Cuts vs Stimulus Spending

  
  Growth Matters — Authority: 110
  It turns out that its the former that makes a bigger difference: "Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases." From Harvards Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna via Greg Mankiw . They even go further, pointing out that to reduce debt and deficits, ...
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• Brad DeLong’s five percent solution…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 129
  Brad DeLong thinks there is about a five percent chance we will see a second Great Depression and there is little or nothing which can be done to avoid it:For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it–that we [...]
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• David Broder on the Health Care Bill: A budget-buster in the making

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  Its simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan. The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross ...
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• Climate Scientists Suppressed Conflicting Reports?

  
  http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative — Authority:
  If this email below from the hacked and leaked climate change fiasco is accurate, then potentially as many as 450 conflicting reports were kept from the public scientific debate on climate change. “From: Phil Jones To: “Michael E. Mann” Subject: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL Date: Thu Jul 8 16:30:16 2004 I can’t ...
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• Found A Job Yet?

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 590
  Remember all those jobs promised in 2008? A focal point of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was the promise of job creation through environmental stewardship, illustrating an Obamatopia in which jobs were abundant and plentiful and the environment was unaffected by economic activity. In a Los Angeles Times ...
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• Imagine Our Politicians In Professional Sporting Events

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 443
  They wouldn’t do very well, would they? It should be similarly laughable to imagine them running our businesses and industries well … Posted in Capitalism and Economics Tagged: Democrats, Republicans, Society, The Economy
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• WSJ: Health Bill Poised to Hit Senate Floor as Democrats Gain Key Votes

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 582
  Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a centrist Democrat from Arkansas, said Saturday she would vote to move forward with debate on health-care legislation, giving Democrats what appeared to be the 60 votes needed to bring the sweeping bill to the Senate floor for debate. Sen. Lincoln, who faces a tough reelection battle next year, ...
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• Who is John Galt?

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 139
  At the American Thinker, a good piece from C. Edmund Wright - Entrepreneurs Go on Strike : Can Barney Frank Dunk on Lebron? No, he cannot. Nor can anyone else in Washington. Nor can they catch passes from Ben Rothlisberger in the Super Bowl or strike out Derek Jeter in the World Series. They are not equipped to do ...
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• Why Gary Price bought ‘The Case for Books’ in E

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 660
  Ah, the suspense. Would Gary Price —the founding info-maven of ResourceShelf — buy The Case for Books in an electronic or paper edition? TeleRead promised an answer, and directly from Gary himself, here it is. – D.R. The winner? The e-book version, which I’ve been reading on Kindle for iPhone. A few ...
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