ricardian ambivalence

Hamilton hammers HAP (re Reinhart and Rogoff)

Pity the fool that takes on Jim Hamilton. Jim had the good grace to publish Robert Pollin and Michael Ash’s

A key reason i do not think the RBA will ease their policy rate at their May meeting is that

As often occurs in the economist game, the data has started swinging back toward a rate cut. Following the soft

Looking at the detail of Q1’13 CPI, inflation does look low — but CPI is very lagged to the cycle,

With Q1’13 CPI much lower than anticapited the obvious question is if the RBA will respond by cutting rates in

[note this is the third in a series looking at the indicators for Q1’13 Australian CPI: we have also looked

Following on from the post on how re-distributive the Swan Treasury has been, I figured I’d take a look at

The comments section of the posts about Reinhart and Rogoff (1 and 2) have turned into something of a debate

Jim Hamilton (his text Time Series Analysis will be familiar to many who have suffered post-grad econometrics) has weighed in

With not all that much to talk about ahead of CPI, I’ve been spending some time playing with other data-sets

I generate loads of code, and back up very little, so an easy to use versioning system like github seems

Given that I am teaching myself to code so that I can better use R, I guess it was inevitable