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• Is $8 billion a year enough to get developing countries on board at Copenhagen?

  —Environmental Economics

  Rob Stavins in the NY Times:

  “This is the question that is being posed in Copenhagen,” said Robert N. Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University. “How much money do the developed countries have to put on the table to bring [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:52am EST
  by Tim Haab

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• Obama to Announce New Stimulus Package

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  From Jeff Zeleny at the NY Times: Obama Announces New Jobs Programs President Obama on Tuesday will announce three proposals intended to turn around the nation’s beleaguered job market ...
  
  The speech, according to a senior administration official, will outline a series of steps to help small businesses [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:39am EST
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• NY Times' Non-Reporting Reporting

  —EconLog

  (December 7, 2009 10:11 AM, by David Henderson) If you want to see a great example of a purported news story in which the reporters try to bias the story one way, check out today's New York Times story on Climategate. I preface this by saying that I... [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:11am EST
  by David Henderson

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• Treasury Forecasts Smaller Loss from TARP

  —Calculated Risk

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  From the NY Times: U.S. Forecasts Smaller Loss From Bailout of Banks The Treasury Department expects to recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it has lent to ailing companies since the financial crisis began last year, with the portion lent to banks actually showing a slight [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:16am EST
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• If pigs could fly

  —Peter Gordon's Blog

  In today's NY Times, Economist Robert Frank writes "How to Run Up A Deficit, Without Fear ...Taking on debt can be a good thing, if government spends wisely."That's a very big "if". Prof. Frank is clearly a smart man and many smart men and women speak this way. But at [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:17pm EST
  by Peter Gordon

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

  —Calculated Risk

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  Two more graphs ...
  
  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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• Dubai's Structured Debt

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  Ok, one more post on Dubai before all the U.S. economic news this week ...
  
  A couple of articles from the NY Times: Dubai Crisis Tests Laws of Islamic Financing Shariah-compliant investments prohibit lenders from earning interest, and effectively place lenders and borrowers into a form of partnership. [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:07am EST
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• More Dubai and Futures

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  From the WSJ: Worries Grow Over Gulf Rift The central bank said it "stands behind" U.A.E. banks and would make available funds to local institutions, including local subsidiaries of foreign banks.
  
  But the statement pointedly didn't mention Dubai, disappointing many market observers. And from the NY Times: [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:55pm EST
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• Tyler Cowen on China and Transparency

  —Environmental and Urban Economics

  This NY Times piece has some interesting ideas. Environmental scholars have wondered about the quality of the aggregate carbon dioxide statistics that China generates. Do we really know how many tons of carbon this big nation produces each year? In terms of data quality, is this the tip [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:30am EST
  by Matthew E. Kahn

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• Consensus on Permanent Mods: "Program has proved inadequate"

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  It sounds like the permanent mod numbers will be grim ...
  
  From Peter Goodman at the NY Times: U.S. to Pressure Mortgage Firms for Loan Relief The Obama administration on Monday plans to announce a campaign to pressure mortgage companies to reduce payments for many more troubled homeowners, [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 3:42pm EST
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• Credible Foreign Policy and Basic Game Theory: The Cases of Israel and Honduras

  —Environmental and Urban Economics

  This NY Times editorial below surprises me. Could the Smart Obama Team really be this bad at basic game theory? I thought that during the Cold War that RAND was paid big bucks for teaching the government strategy lessons in dealing with the Soviet Union. I guess that the stock [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:41am EST
  by Matthew E. Kahn

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• WWII Slogan Makes a Comeback

  —Calculated Risk

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  Earlier posts ...
  Summary and a Look Ahead (A busy week for housing data!)
  
  Fed's Bullard Backs Extension of MBS Purchases
  
  Possible Changes to FHA Insured Mortgages
  
  
  From the NY Times: [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:36pm EST
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• Krugman on AIG

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  From Paul Krugman writing in the NY Times: The Big Squander During the bubble years, many financial companies created the illusion of financial soundness by buying credit-default swaps from A.I.G. — basically, insurance policies in which A.I.G. promised to make up the difference if borrowers defaulted on their debts. [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• A Few House Price Forecasts

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  From housing consultant Ivy Zelman commenting on the MBA Delinquency report in the NY Times U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record High"I’ve been pretty bearish on this big ugly pig stuck in the python and this cements my view that home prices are going back down."From Bloomberg: Housing [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:55am EST
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• More on FHA Loans

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  David Streitfeld at the NY Times adds some color: Easy Loans in Expensive Areas In January, Mike Rowland was so broke that he had to raid his retirement savings to move [to San Francisco] from Boston.
  
  A week ago, he and a couple of buddies bought a two-unit [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:39pm EST
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• One million Workers to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits in January

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  "It's déjà vu all over again".
  Yogi Berra
  From the NY Times (edit): Jobless Benefits Set to Expire Unless Congress Acts About one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January ...
  
  The [recently] added federal benefits were built on a series of [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:42pm 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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• "But That Political Economy Trick Never Works!": A Dispatch from Chavez's Venezuela

  —Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal

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  In my email inbox, from "A Leftist":

  I asked Xcdv Umesnagos about the power outages [in Venezuela] reported by Simon Romero of the NY TIMES. His reply:

  Romero is a fool but the NYT is more so for keeping on a guy who just rewrites the articles in [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:24pm EST
  by Brad DeLong

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• Home Builder's Return on Lobbying

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  Gretchen Morgenson at the NY Times writes about the tax loss carry-back1 "gift" for home builders in the recently signed "Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009": Home Builders (You Heard That Right) Get a Gift The Center for Responsive Politics reports that through Oct. 26 of this [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:18pm EST
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• Euro Zone GDP Grows in Q3

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  From the NY Times: Euro Zone Officially Out of Recession ... [T]he euro area emerged from recession during the third quarter, helped largely by export growth and improved industrial production in its largest economy, Germany.
  
  The European Union’s statistics agency, Eurostat, reported Friday that gross domestic product for [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:19am EST
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• FHA Reserves Fall Sharply, Well Below Required Minimum

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  From David Streitfeld at the NY Times: Housing Agency Says Cash Reserves Are Down Sharply The Federal Housing Administration said Thursday morning that its cash reserves had dwindled significantly in the last year after a record drop in home prices.
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  The results of the F.H.A.’s annual audit showed [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:08am EST
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• Employment and the Seasonal Adjustment

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  Floyd Norris at the NY Times asks: Did Unemployment Really Rise? The economic reactions over the weekend to Friday’s employment report all started from the assumption that things grew much worse in October. The unemployment rate leaped to 10.2 percent from 9.8 percent. Another 190,000 jobs vanished.
  
  Actually, [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:19am EST
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• NY Governor: "Unprecedented financial challenge"

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  From the NY Times: Paterson Paints Grim Picture of N.Y. Budget Crisis "We stand on the brink of a financial challenge of unprecedented magnitude in the history of this state,” Mr. Paterson told lawmakers as he warned that New York was rapidly running out of cash ...
  
  While" [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:10pm EST
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• Evan Smith Reinvents Texas News Coverage

  —Environmental and Urban Economics

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  Evan Smith, an old friend from Hamilton '87, is featured in a photo in the NY Times Business page today . He looks tough in the picture. What has he done? Started a hedge fund? Gone to a tea party? No and No. He has created a new way' [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:07pm EST
  by Matthew E. Kahn

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• WalMart: Quote of the Night

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  A quote from a conference this weekend, from the NY Times: "There are families not eating at the end of the month,” said Stephen Quinn, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Wal-Mart Stores, and “literally lining up at midnight” at Wal-Mart stores waiting to buy food when" [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:58pm EST
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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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