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Visiting Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Posted by Andrew at 8/17/2010 3:26 PM | Add Comment

Zimbabwe Hyperinflation continues ...

Posted by Andrew at 4/22/2010 4:18 PM | Add Comment

IMF Revises GDP Forecasts

Posted by Andrew at 4/21/2010 6:27 PM | Add Comment

Germany's Intransigence - Greece Gets Backing

Posted by Andrew at 4/11/2010 4:53 PM | Add Comment

Average gas price: $2.86

Posted by Andrew at 4/11/2010 8:07 AM | Add Comment

Tired of the Denials

Posted by Andrew at 4/10/2010 2:30 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Sovereigns, Discouraged Workers, and the markets

Posted by Andrew at 2/5/2010 10:22 AM | Add Comment

Here we go! - Inflation Fighting begins!

Posted by Andrew at 1/12/2010 9:48 PM | Add Comment

SWITCH - from Emphasis on "Deflation" to Inflation!!

Posted by Andrew at 12/21/2009 4:28 PM | Add Comment

Paul Samuelson, First American Nobel Laureat, Dies at 94

Posted by Andrew at 12/13/2009 9:20 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

A Special Internship Preview of the Midterm Exam!

Posted by Andrew at 9/20/2009 5:57 AM | Add Comment

Ben Says the Recession (May) be OVER!

Posted by Andrew at 9/14/2009 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Banking in the U.S. One Year Into the Financial Crisis

Posted by Andrew at 9/13/2009 4:03 PM | Add Comment

The Answer to the Hillary Question!

Posted by Andrew at 6/8/2009 6:51 PM | Add Comment

Clive W. J. Granger, Nobel Laureat Has Died at 74

Posted by Andrew at 5/30/2009 5:28 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Homes and Foreclosures - Now Fixed Rate Loans too!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/28/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

THE THIRD WAVE!!! Did I MISS the Second?!!?

Posted by Andrew at 5/26/2009 6:24 PM | Add Comment

Alternatively - WHY?!? Prices up, Supply Up?!?

Posted by Andrew at 5/23/2009 10:04 PM | Add Comment

Gas Prices are UP = Less Driving ... Maybe NOT!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/23/2009 9:33 PM | Add Comment

China's Purchases of U.S. Treasuries

Posted by Andrew at 5/21/2009 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Citigroup actually IS Loaning out TARP Money!!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/12/2009 5:24 PM | Add Comment

Is the Fed Monetizing the Debt??!! Potential Inflation?!?

Posted by Andrew at 5/11/2009 4:14 PM | Add Comment

Credit Card Debt Shoe set to Fall? Stress tests show ...

Posted by Andrew at 5/10/2009 4:38 PM | Add Comment

Setting Gas Prices in China

Posted by Andrew at 5/9/2009 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Labor Picture is WHAT? BETTER??!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/8/2009 5:57 PM | Add Comment

No Stress - Stress Tests!

Posted by Andrew at 5/8/2009 1:58 AM | Add Comment

Money Supply Growth leads to Inflation, Long Run!!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/6/2009 12:20 PM | Add Comment

MAY DAY - International Labor Day - The 8 hour work day

Posted by Andrew at 4/30/2009 5:55 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

CONSUMERS ARE SPENDING AGAIN!!! Real GDP growth "-6.1%" - Advance Number

Posted by Andrew at 4/29/2009 4:02 PM | Add Comment

Penny Benny (P.B.G.C.) Soon to Be In Trouble - Auto Pensions and Then What?!

Posted by Andrew at 4/24/2009 7:02 AM | Add Comment

Tax rates around the world from the Economist

Posted by Andrew at 4/23/2009 6:39 AM | Add Comment

Cramer and Perkins next to each other?!! In the Bookstore, oh!

Posted by Andrew at 4/19/2009 5:14 PM | Add Comment

Stuck in a Rut, Green Shoots, Glimmers - Euphemisms ABOUND!!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/17/2009 6:26 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

REAL WAGES UP - that's Purchasing Power!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/16/2009 9:04 PM | Add Comment

Innovation rarely comes from Established Companies

Posted by Andrew at 4/15/2009 4:15 AM | Add Comment

China's Economic Growth Soon - Money Supply UP!

Posted by Andrew at 4/12/2009 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Fed Researchers - perhaps use "Bridge Loans" for Homeowners

Posted by Andrew at 4/10/2009 6:12 AM | Add Comment

I.M.F. - a new "Mandate"? An Explanation ...

Posted by Andrew at 4/5/2009 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Markets UP 1% but We STILL lost TONS of Jobs!?!??

Posted by Andrew at 4/3/2009 8:00 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Now careful about getting too confident - AS IF!!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/23/2009 4:43 PM | Add Comment

Can YOU see the bottom? *I* CAN!!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/10/2009 7:35 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Two Interesting Graphics - "Employment Situation Report"

Posted by Andrew at 3/7/2009 5:45 AM | Add Comment

Productivity Revision - 2008, Same Story as Real GDP - HUGE!

Posted by Andrew at 3/5/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Transportation (Stimulus) money is released!

Posted by Andrew at 3/3/2009 8:23 PM | Add Comment

Why is A.I.G. SOOOO Important the company needs a rescue?

Posted by Andrew at 3/2/2009 4:18 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Real GDP revision - major change from Advance numbers!

Posted by Andrew at 2/27/2009 10:03 PM | Add Comment

Aren't ALL Presidents' Reports "Too Rosy" when issued?

Posted by Andrew at 2/26/2009 9:38 PM | Add Comment

So Just HOW Did Japan do?

Posted by Andrew at 2/25/2009 8:26 PM | Add Comment

Markets are UP, no Nationalization!???

Posted by Andrew at 2/24/2009 9:41 PM | Add Comment

Fees for Underwriting FDIC debt at Mexico risk premiums?!?

Posted by Andrew at 2/17/2009 6:03 PM | Add Comment

California is about out for the count! ... Almost!

Posted by Andrew at 2/17/2009 6:42 AM | Add Comment

DISCONNECT?!!? Oil from Gas prices?!

Posted by Andrew at 2/11/2009 12:00 PM | Add Comment

Congressional Budget Office Real GDP gap graph

Posted by Andrew at 1/8/2009 5:26 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Freeware is now into Statistics! "R"

Posted by Andrew at 1/7/2009 7:28 AM | Add Comment

The NEXT shoe? Commercial MBS - wonkish!

Posted by Andrew at 1/5/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Fake "Ink-jet" currency!

Posted by Andrew at 12/27/2008 5:55 AM | Add Comment

Bloomberg.com: Milton Friedman is rolling in his grave

Posted by Andrew at 12/24/2008 3:08 AM | Add Comment

Stanley Fischer is interviewed - Ben's Ph.D. advisor

Posted by Andrew at 12/21/2008 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Personal Income by State - Graph from BEA (wonkish)

Posted by Andrew at 12/18/2008 5:03 PM | Add Comment

CPI Falls by a Record Amount!! "-1.7%"

Posted by Andrew at 12/17/2008 6:36 PM | Add Comment

It's a New World!! Fed Cuts Interest Rates to ZERO! (or so)

Posted by Andrew at 12/16/2008 5:35 PM | Add Comment

Third Plenum of the 11th Chinese Communist Party Congress (CCPC) in 1978

Posted by Andrew at 12/14/2008 9:08 PM | Add Comment

China's inflation is low ... bordering deflation?

Posted by Andrew at 12/12/2008 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Trying to stay out of Gloom and Doom, BUT ...

Posted by Andrew at 11/30/2008 5:01 AM | Add Comment

Ramblings and Preliminary Real GDP

Posted by Andrew at 11/25/2008 4:23 PM | Add Comment

Recovery to last Monday morning's level! Whew! Volatility!!!

Posted by Andrew at 11/24/2008 6:16 PM | Add Comment

Grading, grading, grading ... final exams

Posted by Andrew at 11/24/2008 9:04 AM | Add Comment

Short-term Interest rates are basically ZERO!

Posted by Andrew at 11/23/2008 7:40 AM | Add Comment

Gas prices continue to fall!

Posted by Andrew at 11/23/2008 4:26 AM | Add Comment

Timothy Geithner moves the markets!

Posted by Andrew at 11/22/2008 7:43 AM | Add Comment

Yes the bottom has not arrived - sigh ...

Posted by Andrew at 11/20/2008 7:03 PM | Add Comment

China to spend 4 trillion RMB on Economy ("Kitty")

Posted by Andrew at 11/9/2008 3:47 PM | Add Comment

Revisions to Unemployment Explained

Posted by Andrew at 11/9/2008 4:43 AM | Add Comment

U-1 through U-6: Grading of Unemployment

Posted by Andrew at 11/7/2008 7:12 PM | Add Comment

14 year low for Jobs data and rant about reporters!

Posted by Andrew at 11/7/2008 5:38 PM | Add Comment

Bank of England cuts rates by 1.5%

Posted by Andrew at 11/6/2008 8:21 AM | Add Comment

3rd Quarter ADVANCE GDP estimates

Posted by Andrew at 10/30/2008 4:28 PM | Add Comment

College Costs are rising only at inflation rates

Posted by Andrew at 10/29/2008 5:00 PM | Add Comment

FED ACTS! FF rate down to 1% again! REAL GDP tomorrow!

Posted by Andrew at 10/29/2008 4:01 PM | Add Comment

Fuel Gauge Report - update (National Average)

Posted by Andrew at 10/23/2008 5:51 AM | Add Comment

The Dollar is SOARING!!!

Posted by Andrew at 10/22/2008 5:54 PM | Add Comment

Midterms GRADED!! Oil price graph

Posted by Andrew at 10/22/2008 5:12 AM | Add Comment

Silver Lining? (Off to Xi'an)

Posted by Andrew at 10/16/2008 3:59 PM | Add Comment

Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics

Posted by Andrew at 10/13/2008 8:35 AM | Add Comment

Australia and New Zealand follow suit

Posted by Andrew at 10/12/2008 4:27 PM | Add Comment

Free Fall!! Musings ...

Posted by Andrew at 10/10/2008 3:16 AM | Add Comment

Consumers Stopped Borrowing in August

Posted by Andrew at 10/7/2008 3:58 PM | Add Comment

What's a TARP?

Posted by Andrew at 10/6/2008 4:23 PM | Add Comment

Chinese Stock Markets - Closed last week!!!

Posted by Andrew at 10/5/2008 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Ben's still working overtime!! (He dropped out of the political discussions, however.)

Posted by Andrew at 9/29/2008 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Not a free fall!

Posted by Andrew at 9/15/2008 4:10 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

News - the dollar, oil and China's growth after the Olympics

Posted by Andrew at 9/2/2008 5:08 PM | Add Comment

European Economies Suffering more than the U.S.?!!?

Posted by Andrew at 8/16/2008 8:11 AM | Add Comment

Prices are falling! At least a little ...

Posted by Andrew at 7/30/2008 8:36 AM | Add Comment

Review finished, two abstracts to write

Posted by Andrew at 6/14/2008 7:33 PM | Add Comment

The Chinese currency continues to appreciate - slowly still

Posted by Andrew at 6/13/2008 4:40 PM | Add Comment

While I was sleeping, the markets were not happy!

Posted by Andrew at 6/6/2008 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Dragon Boat Day Holiday Story - Picture

Posted by Andrew at 6/6/2008 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Plenty of work still to do!

Posted by Andrew at 6/5/2008 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Sorry Policy-makers, consumers "save" a one time tax break ...

Posted by Andrew at 6/1/2008 4:27 PM | Add Comment
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