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June 29, 2017
In the pile of charts and screenshots this morning were: US Stuff On Illinois and its ongoing budget crisis. , I have very fond memories of a year at Champagne-Urbana in 2004. To see this makes my heart ache. On the craziness of GOP…
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June 22, 2017
Central bankers everywhere are trying to decide how to respond to the tepid recovery – should they raise interest rates or hold off? In the UK, given political turmoil and Brexit, the decision is particularly difficult, resulting in…
June 20, 2017
Arguments from the “pro-business”, “free enterprise” right against Trump’s protectionist turn have produced some interesting insights. Data gleaned from UNCTAD by AEI blogger Mark J. Perry on the global…
June 16, 2017
In late Feb 2017 UBS’ analyst Arend Kapteyn reported that a measure of global credit impulse covering 77 % of world economy was behaving rather alarmingly. After growing vigorously in 2015 and 2016 thanks to another round of Chinese…
June 15, 2017
Latest shock graph from Piketty et al’s inequality research highlighted by the excellent Pedro da Costa on Business Insider of all places, by way of the Chicago Booth School of Business and the WSJ. This has truly gone mainstream.…
June 14, 2017
America’s very large student debt problem has a major gender dimension. From an excellent report by the American Association of University Women.Other striking results from the same report include:As the data in the report make…
June 13, 2017
Inaugurating a new series of Daily Notes. Not full blog posts, but gleanings from Twitter postings etc. Semi-daily. Minimal text. Just jarring, fascinating or intriguing pointers. This seemed like a good one to start with.source:…