Hey, What’d I Miss? OTE 12/16 — 1/7
January 7th, 2015 at 11:37 am
- Posting a comprehensive presentation on the rise of inequality…to go!
- Pointing to Greg Sargent’s key points on the overime debate.
- Noting the new nominee for the Fed — a community banker.
- Highlighting Larry Summer’s call for a tax on carbon and linking to my own calls for raising the federal gas tax.
- Excerpting Ed Kleinbard’s substantive worries re dynamic scoring.
- Reminding folks where most of the money from last year’s stock market run-up actually went.
- Posting Q&A on minimum wages that are breaking out around the country.
- Pointing out the asymmetric credibility at the Fed and price-level targeting.
- Explaining that despite signs of a tightening labor market, there is still room for improvement.
- Posting some of my favorite graphics from 2014 that point the way back to Factville.
- Describing why the Trans-Pacific Partnership should not be ratified without a currency chapter.
- Evaluating the annoying microeconomics of giving and receiving.
- Explaining why the conventional wisdom about Jeb Bush’s electability may be wrong and how the D’s may have the same problem.
- Highlighting Paul Volcker’s reaction on the new two year delay in implementing his eponymous rule.
- Laying out a high-tech “event analysis” of the Affordable Care Act.
- Posting a quick note on the FOMC’s distinctions between “patience” and a “considerable time.”
- Pointing out some bipartisan support for raising the federal gas tax and replenishing the Highway Trust Fund.
- Musical Interludes: kicking off the holiday season with Lou Rawls and listening to the great Sonny Boy Williamson (and watching some movies) during holiday break.
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