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• Unemployment: Record number Unemployed over 26 Weeks, Diffusion Index

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  Unemployed over 26 Weeks
  
  Back in September, David Leonhardt wrote on the job churn rate in the NY Times: Try thinking of it this way: All of the unemployed people in the country are gathered in a huge gymnasium that’s been turned into [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:09am EST
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• Leonhardt on Long Term PEs

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  From David Leonhardt at the NY Times Economix: Stocks Start Looking Dear Again Over the last few years, I’ve come to know and trust a version of the price-earnings ratio preferred by the economists Robert Shiller and John Campbell. It is based on an average of the past 10 [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:04pm EST
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• Cash for Caulkers?

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  David Leonhardt writes in the NY Times: A Stimulus That Could Save Money White House officials are now looking at creating a new version of cash for clunkers — this time for home weatherization.
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  [John] Doerr calls his proposal, which would give households money to pay for weatherization [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:56pm EST
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• Seasonal Posting: NYTFail, Part 2

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  First, David Leonhardt argued that this recession was good for workers.
  
  Now, Floyd Norris apparently has decided to mix and match data. (I wonder if the fact many NYT employees who are looking at their 45-day severance offers is having an effect on its economic coverage.)
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:25pm EST
  by Ken Houghton

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• The Myth Has No Clothes

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  Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the New York Times:

  Arguing that “economic incentives in health care” are perverse, David Leonhardt asserts that “As long as doctors and hospitals are paid for each extra test and treatment, they will err on the side of more care and not always [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:32am EST
  by Don Boudreaux

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• One of These Things is Not Like the Others

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  I try to like the NYTimes Economics Reporting. I really do. Heck, any place that publishes Uwe Reinhardt can't be all bad.
  
  But David Leonhardt, as he does often enough that I hesitate to read his work, again goes beyond the pale today, and clearly does so' [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  by Ken Houghton

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• The "Treatment Effect" of Doctors

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  Are doctors good for you? When are they good for you? As they learn how to do their craft, could their treatment improve and become more cost-effective? Here is David Leonhardt's piece on health care and doctor's value added
  
  For applied micro scholars, we can map this [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:56am EST
  by Matthew E. Kahn

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• NY Times: Unemployment Measure U-6 Highest Since Great Depression

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  From David Leonhardt at the NY Times: Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5% Excerpts:
  Officially, the Labor Department’s broad measure of unemployment goes back only to 1994. But early this year, with the help of economists at the department, The New York Times created a version that estimates [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:59pm EST
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