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Monday, June 30, 2014

Depending on How We Define "Recovery," the US Economy Has Already Recovered, May Recover Soon, or May Never Do So

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According to the latest public opinion poll from CNNMoney , 61 percent of Americans think it will this slideshow for charts and analysis o...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Revisions for Q1 Show Biggest Drop in US GDP in Five Years

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The third estimate of U.S. real GDP for Q1 2014, released this week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis , showed that the economy contracted ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Does Inherited Wealth Really Help the Economy? A Reply to Greg Mankiw

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Writing for the Upshot section of the New York Times , Harvard economist Greg Mankiw has weighed in on the Pikkety debate. He accepts Pik...
Monday, June 16, 2014

The Roll of Bloggers in Disseminating Economic Research

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Recently Bill Gardner , a contributor to the healthcare policy blog The Incidental Economist , posted a piece titled “Disseminating Resea...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Russian Business Leaders who Joined Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Drive Face Now Face Arrest

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On Wednesday, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti  announced that Konstantin Yankauskas, a this earlier post , the fight against corruptio...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Long-term and Broad Unemployment Rates Fall to New Lows as Labor Force Expands

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the broad unemployment rate, U-6, fell to 12.2 percent in May. As the following chart...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

US Corporate Profits Take a Big Hit in Q1 2014 as GDP Falls at a One Percent Annual Rate

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The second revision of the US national income accounts for the first quarter of 2014, released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis , s...
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