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- Larry Fink on the rising dollar
- On corporate power
- Discretionary spending under Democratic and Republican Administrations, Reagan-Obama
- The Keller-Greenwald debate
- Obama should not lend his name to any entitlement cuts
- Two more links on section 1002 of the “default prevention act of 2013”
- The “Default Prevention Act of 2013” makes a February debt-ceiling crisis unlikely
- Debt-ceiling deal appears imminent
- Three days till debt-ceiling breach
- Four days till debt-ceiling breach
- A discussion on in-depth interviews. What are they good for?
- Cautiously disagreeing with Yochai Benkler on NSA data collection
- The business elite is letting GOP put domestic economic sabotage on the negotiating table
- The budget is the actual issue at stake
- GOP lacks intellectual capital
- We now better account for intellectual property and intangible assets
- What is at stake and why GOP is irresponsible to put debt-default on the table
- Ryan Lizza details the GOP “suicide caucus”
- On the political sociology of Samuel Huntington
- COLUMN: debt-default politics must end
- COLUMN: The GOP domestic vision
- COLUMN: US averts war, Russia gives up an ally
- Why analysis of an act must include an analysis from the point of view of the actor
- Preparing an intellectual property report
- Ethnographic, sociology-of-knowledge evidence of economic optimism
- NSA scandal is about property, not privacy (part two)
- NSA scandal is about property, not privacy
- Economic optimism mounts: Krugman, Klein, and Harding
- Why changes to intellectual property valuation matter
- More intellectual property wealth will soon be accounted for
- sociology destroyed the notion of a market
- The economics of intellectual property: the problem of valuation
- COLUMN: Obama refashions War on Terror
- the problem of middle-class spending power: a few comments
- COLUMN: Tornadoes devastate Oklahoma
- calls for impeachment and war pick up
- Politics, data, capital
- Bartlett on fiscal stimulus when faced with a “liquidity trap”
- COLUMN: fiscal contraction amid monetary expansion
- In defense of Sherkat?
- A second post on Reinhart-Rogoff
- Sherkat and the Regnerus study
- Reinhart-Rogoff: a structure of knowledge goes down
- A second post on the comments around Biernacki’s Reinventing Evidence
- analyzing symbolic data: a sociology web debate
- qualitative sociology as economically valuable
- advanced capitalism and the methodological imperative of symbolic data
- Wednesday at the Financial Times Op-ed page
- better social design: the future of sociology publishing is open-access and on the internet
- Contemporary social theory updates Parsons’ AGIL model
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Robin Harding 2011 FT report on labor wage gap
Brookings paper on 'The Decline of the US Labor Share'
Category Archives: money and finance
economic recovery
It is now give or take five years since a finance-centered economic crisis hit highly-leveraged Western economies. While early on there was talk about a major transformation of world monetary arrangements (Roubini, May 13, 2009, in the NY Times here, … Continue reading
Link to Edlin and Jaffee (2009), “Show me the money”: on excess reserves at the Federal Reserve
An unprecedented number of commercial bank reserves ($1.4 trillion) continue to sit idle at US Federal Reserve banks. This raises a number of questions. Why does the Fed pay an interest on these reserves? Would it benefit the economy to … Continue reading
Excess reserves held by banks at the Federal Reserve: more thoughts and links
Depository institutions — banks — are contractually obligated to hold a certain level of reserves at a Federal Reserve bank, more or less to demonstrate a baseline of solvency. On top of that, banks can leave excess reserves, if they … Continue reading
My pick for economic chart of the year (2012): Excess Reserves Held by the Federal Reserve
As 2012 came to a close, the Atlantic asked 34 different economists with notable web presences to provide one chart that best explains the economic situation. Effectively a database, you can find the 34 charts and explanations here. Also, the … Continue reading
Treasury bills held by commercial banks: my thoughts
One of the interesting things about the data in the previous post (can click here), is how a reduction in US treasuries held by US commercial banks preceded both the most recent economic recessions. I am not, repeat not, suggesting … Continue reading
Treasury bills held by commercial banks, 1947-2012
Thank goodness for St Louis Fed data (general link). Here’s a good piece of data. Treasury and Agency Securities at all commercial banks, 1947-2012 (specific link):
Politico knows how US could centrally plan a “boom economy”
The Politico article referenced earlier in the week, headlined “crafting a boom economy,” presents the conclusion that positive policy actions on taxes, energy, immigration, spending, and trade could lead to an all-out economic “boom” (link). My position: I can be … Continue reading
Martin Wolf on how to address the private debt problem
Keep in mind Wolf is addressing the de-leveraging of private debt, not public debt, which usually gets all the headlines. But to me public debt is not nearly as complex a problem as it is made out to be, due … Continue reading
Bill Gross on the death of equities
Bill Gross, founder and managing director of Pimco, major player in the world of bonds, on the death of equities (link): The cult of equity is dying. Like a once bright green aspen turning to subtle shades of yellow then … Continue reading
Is Facebook the biggest tech IPO we will ever see?
James Surowiecki, writing in The New Yorker: [C]ompanies like Facebook don’t really need the money that an I.P.O. raises. Thanks to things like open-source software and cloud computing, the cost of starting and expanding a technology company has fallen dramatically, … Continue reading
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