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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Peter Dorman — Postmodern Monetary Theory: The NSA and Unconventional Monetary Policy

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On August 12, damaged by the revelations emanating from the leaked NSA documents by Edward Snowden, President Obama empaneled a commission ...

Neil Wilson — UK Sectoral Balances and Private Debt Levels - Q3 2013

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Charts. 3spoken UK Sectoral Balances and Private Debt Levels - Q3 2013 Neil Wilson
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Peter Radford — Quote of the day #3

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Why econometric modeling of general equilibrium is bonkers. Real-World Economics Review Blog Quote of the day #3 Peter Radford

Warren Mosler Mosler Barnard Tour 2013 ME-MMT at Cagliari [video]

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Warren Mosler Mosler Barnard Tour 2013 ME-MMT at Cagliari (edited) Warren Mosler describing through the MMT framework why deficits a...

FactSet Insight: Most S&P 500 retail sub-industries are projected to report a decline in earnings in Q4

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This is the first report  (subscription may be required) I have seen since the October "shutdown" (which we estimate removed app...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Benjamin Carlson — China will require its 250,000 journalists to pass a 'Marxism test'

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Journalists across China are now boning up on Marxist terminology like the “labor theory of value” and “commodity fetishism.” The United ...
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Tia Ghose — Universe Grows Like a Giant Brain

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The universe may grow like a giant brain, according to a new computer simulation. The results, published Nov.16 in the journal Nature's...
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gjohnsit — The pitchforks are coming out in Europe

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When you think of governments ready to fall in Europe, you probably think of Greece or Spain. Instead it is Italy that is warning of a...
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Zack Kaldveer — Secret Trade Deal Spawns 'We Will Not Obey' Movement

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In October, the Madison City Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring the city a “TPP-Free Zone,” and promising that if Congress p...
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Matthew Leising — CME Seeks to Broaden Cash Options in Clearinghouse Default Rules

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“We talked to a number of clearing members and regulators to determine what solution might satisfy the concerns and also create the least a...

Brad DeLong — Senate Votes for Federal Reserve Chair

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The title says it all. But… But… But… I was told last summer that a big argument for Janet Yellen was that she was clearly so well-qualifie...
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Ed Dolan — Latest Economic Growth Data Give Cheer to Market Monetarists, or, What is the NGDP Gap and Why do we Care?

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The NGDP gap is equal to potential NGDP minus actual GDP. If the economy is operating below potential, the gap is negative. If it is tempor...
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Lars Syll — Microfounded DSGE models are not only unrealistic — they are also plainly wrong

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The DSGE model is a model in which output is determined in the labour market as in New Classical models and in which aggregate demand plays...
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The Absolute Disdain For The Middle Class Is Infuriating

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(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Take the reporters from Bloomberg, PLEASE!!! Japan Unveils Record 2014 Budget Draft as Debt Bu...
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Richard Schiffman — Right-Wing Group Seeks Help Rewriting the Bible Because It's Not Conservative Enough

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Liberal bias in the media pales in comparison to what you’ll find in your standard-issue Bibles, according to Conservapedia.com, a kind of ...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Michael Pettis — Monetary policy under financial repression

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In order to understand much of what is happening in China I believe it is crucially important to understand how financial systems operate u...
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Yves Smith — Yes Virginia, Obama and the Democrats Are Mussolini-Style Corporatists, Just Like the Republicans

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Doh. Anyone didn't get that? Oh, right, the Obama bots and the Third Way/Clinton fans. Oh, well, at least it is bipartisan. Naked ...
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Brad DeLong — Joe Gagnon Responds to Michael Woodford, Ben Bernanke, and Others on the Risks and Power of Quantitative Easing: Friday Focus (December 20, 2013)

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Nothing on QE being a tax. but a couple of interesting points relevant to MMT. 1. Consolidation. "The fourth cost is the possibili...
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Bill Mitchell — Analytical appendix for NIPA Chapter 3 – Part 3

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I am now using Friday’s blog space to provide draft versions of the Modern Monetary Theory textbook that I am writing with my colleague and ...

Everything Must Go? Including Students, Population ... and Sovereign Future?

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Portugal vows quick budget action after court block This reminds me of the Bill Black Conun...
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Warren Mosler — The Fed Can Set Mortgage Rates

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Warren explains how present monetary policy is about housing as a chief economic driver, operating through mortgage rates, and how the Fe...
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Charity by the rich and large corporations is pure vanity or public relations. That's it.

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I am not against charity. I think when it comes to charity most regular people have good intentions. But when I see charity turn into star-...
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A Rare Mention of Aggregate Demand, [Median] Consumer Income and Spending in the Popular Press

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   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson) Biologists would integrate some concepts in economics, and suggest we move on to exploring ou...
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Etymology of 'Philosophy'

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Following up on a post from yesterday where I introduced the Linguistics blog metaphorhacker.net , language again comes up here at the on-...
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Michael Hudson — Trade Advantage Replaced by Rent Extraction

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Must-read on financialization and economic rent. Michael Hudson Trade Advantage Replaced by Rent Extraction (h/t Yves Smith at Naked Ca...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

John Gray — The Real Karl Marx

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John Gray reviews Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life  by Jonathan Sperber, debunking the myths about Marx. The New York Review of Books...

Patrick J. Deneen — Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up?

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If the pope would only shut up about economics and talk only about sex. The American Conservative Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up...
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Randy Wray — A Modern Money View: Podcast with Tom O’Brien

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Podcast Economonitor — Great Leap Forward A Modern Money View: Podcast with Tom O’Brien L. Randall Wray | Professor of Economics, University...

Thom Hartmann interviews Stephanie Kelton — What the Fed's Taper Plan Means for the Economy

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What the Fed's Taper Plan Means for the Economy Thom Hartmann interviews Stephanie Kelton
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Peter Radford — The Lucas Mystique

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Peter Radford trashes the Lucas critique as magical thinking. Nice job. Real-World Economics Review Blog The Lucas Mystique Peter Radford ...
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