ricardian ambivalence

The Joye-z of central banking

Chris Joye is on his discount window high horse again… See here His lines of argument used to confuse me,

The release of 60 million barrels of oil from the SPR is unlikely to do much more to keep down

Know one and want to use the other? This document will come in handy. … by the by, I love

Prof Hamilton (author of the time series bible) recommends that Obama send: “a sweeping directive from the President to all

I don’t often read biologist’s blogs, but this post is about stats… so somehow I ended up there. I recommend

Turns out that there is nothing new under the sun. The Australian result (that inflation only decelerates during recessions) also

A friend asked me some inflation questions recently: questions of the sort — what’s the probability of CPI being x

Posner and Becker’s excellent blog is well worth reading (for those that don’t read it, they take a subject

Central banks take seriously the idea that there is information in internet searches that is useful in taking the economy’s

These slides used by Robert Lucas in 19 May his Milliman Lecture at the University of Washington make for an

I’ve fielded a few questions about Chris’s claim that the price action in the 3yr contract suggested someone had the

I was quite surprised by the RBA’s statement today. What surprised me was that they totally re-wrote the inflation section,