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• The Great Wall Street Crash & Depression–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 429
  1929 – The Great Wall Street Crash & Depression: Part 1 of 6 1929 – The Great Wall Street Crash & Depression: Part 2 of 6 1929 – The Great Wall Street Crash & Depression: Part 3 of 6 1929 – The Great Wall Street Crash & Depression: Part 4 of 6 1929 – The Great ...
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• Advisor Alert: Economy and Bond Market

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The following summaries are part of the weekly Advisor Alert produced by US Global Funds for the week ending … The Economy and Bond Market Bonds sold off sharply on Friday, ending four straight weeks of appreciation. The November unemployment report was surprisingly strong as nonfarm payrolls fell by just ...
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• Forex Weekly Outlook – December 7-11

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 140
  Non-Farm Payrolls brought an excellent surprise to the dollar. In the upcoming week we’ll indeed see if the tables have turned. Rate decisions are expected this week in Britain, Switzerland, Canada and New Zealand. Also note employment figures in Australia and American Retail Sales to close the week. Thursday is an ...
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• The Unemployment Situation

  
  QandO — Authority: 142
  I see that Megan McCardle thinks the unemployment numbers released today are enough to make her make her “cautiously optimistic” about the jobs picture.  I’ll meet her halfway.  I see room for caution, but not yet for optimism. Ms. McArdle writes: It’s very solidly good news: the labor force ...
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• The Stance of Monetary Policy Via the “Risk-Taking Channel”

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 636
  There has been some interesting conversations on the stance of monetary policy in the past few days between Arnold Kling, Scott Sumner, and Josh Hendrickson. Part of the challenge in measuring the stance of monetary policy is that there are multiple transmission channels through which monetary...
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• Obama Uncertainty Generator and Regime Uncertainty

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 429
  Glenn Beck Show – December 4, 2009 – Pt 1 of 7   Glenn Beck Show – December 4, 2009 – Pt 2 of 7 Glenn Beck Show – December 4, 2009 – Pt 3 of 7  Glenn Beck Show – December 4, 2009 – Pt 4 of 7 Glenn Beck Show – December 4, 2009 – Pt 5 of 7 Glenn Beck Show ...
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• DPRK revalues currency - panic ensues

  
  North Korean Economy Watch — Authority: 427
  UPDATE: The rules continue to change.  According to the Daily NK : “The maximum amount per household which could be exchanged in cash was initially set at 100,000 won, but overnight it increased to 150,000 won, then subsequently a new decree was handed down.” “According to the new decree, the exchange rate ...
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• How Central Banks Can Fix the Economy

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 786
  “Joe Gagnon for Fed Chair,” writes Brad DeLong. What’s he talking about? An ambitious plan by Peterson Institute economist and former Federal Reserve staffer Joe Gagnon to use monetary policy to restore developed GDP and employment levels to something decent. The Economist has an able summary : [B]uy an ...
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• The Great Depression and the Current Recession–Robert Higgs–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 429
    The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 1 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 2 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 3 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 4 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current ...
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• The Calm In The Eye Of Hurricane Barack–Official Unemployment Rate Declines From 10.2% to 10.0% and Real Unemployment Rate Declines From 17.5% to 17.2% In November–15,600,000 to 26,466,000 Americans Seeking A Full Time Job!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 429
       The SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged ...
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• Bernanke’s Plan for Unemployment: Do Nothing

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 786
  I’ve been holding out some kind of vague hope that Ben Bernanke’s confirmation hearings might provide a way out of our political impasse on the jobs front. After all, Bernanke’s job is to try to achieve as close to full employment as is possible consistent with the goal of price stability. The Federal Reserve, ...
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• Reappointing Bernanke

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 733
  Ben Bernanke was contrite yesterday, as well he should have been: “There were mistakes made all around,” Mr. Bernanke said. “I did not anticipate a crisis of this magnitude and this severity.” We should have required [banks to hold] more capital, more liquidity,” Mr. Bernanke added. “We should have ...
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• What Was Mainstream Macroeconomics? ...Bueller?, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 692
  I mention Scott Sumner a lot on this blog. Why? Because I see him as sticking up for mainstream macroeconomics. I myself have been pushing a non-mainstream idea, sort of a muddle between Leijonhufvud and Hayek that I call the Recalculation Story. But in the press and in the left-wing blogosphere, mainstream macro ...
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• Why Didn’t Canada’s Housing Market Go Bust?

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The following is a guest contribution by James MacGee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland . Mr. MacGee is an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. by James MacGee Housing markets in the United States and Canada are ...
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• Difference between Old Keynesian and New Keynesian economics

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 433
  Alex Cukierman of Tel Aviv University has written an excellent paper  comparing Old Keynes thinking with the New Keynesian thinking. The paper is mainly on differences and similarities between Great Depression and Great Financial Crisis. He begins the paper reviewing developments in macroeconomics from Keynes to ...
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• "The Case for $6 Trillion More Monetary Stimulus"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 684
  Tim Duy passes this along: No Exit: The Case for $6 Trillion More Monetary Stimulus, by Joseph Gagnon, Peterson Institute for International Economics : A lively debate is under way between those who want more fiscal stimulus to create jobs and those who worry that our national debt is already too high. Both sides ...
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• What the experts think of the QE extension

  
  Loan Empire — Authority: 112
  Following the most recent Monetary Policy Committee meeting the Bank of England announced that the base interest rate was to stay at its all time low level of just 0.5 percent for the eighth month in a row, in the hope that the lower base rate would help to increase affordability and boost the economy. [...]
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• Calabria on Bernanke

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 657
  Mark Calabria asks the right questions . An excerpt: The fact that Rep. Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Fed currently has 313 co-sponsors is a clear indication that Congress is unhappy with the Fed’s lack of transparency. Bernanke’s lobbying efforts against the Paul bill have had little traction. When it comes ...
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• Bernankes Re-Confirmation Testimony

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 423
  With opposition from the left (from Bernie Sanders , who promised to put an "official hold" on a floor vote for Bernankes re-confirmation) and from the right (by two Republicans, as yet unnamed, according to FireDogLake , via NakedCapitalism ). Meanwhile, heres the New York Times account of Bernankes testimony, ...
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• Attack of the Killer Debts!

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 471
  Last Saturday the Globe and Mail (November 28, page B1) ran a multi-page spread on national government debt. It was a mish mash of large titles, large numbers and sensational assertions: “A World Awash in Debt”; “Climbing out of this hole won’t be easy”; “the numbers are staggering”, “debt would climb ...
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