Thursday, April 24, 2014

Fed Chair Janet Yellen: "there remains considerable slack in the economy"

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See Yellen: Economy Still Needs Extraordinary Support . The  Fed thinks that we are still below the full-employment GDP ( Q F in the graph ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

U.S. pump prices seen extending gains

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See U.S. pump prices seen extending gains by Barbara Powell and Mario Parker of Bloomberg. It appeared in the print version of the San Anto...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Is There Economic And Political Meaning In "The Wizard of Oz?"

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I will start on international trade in my micro class tomorrow and the text book has something about this in that chapter. To get a handle...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Do Movies About Women Make A Higher Rate Of Return?

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See The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women by Walt Hickey of fivethirtyeight.com. Excerpts:  "One of the m...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Who Really Benefits From The Mortgage Tax Break?

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See Mortgage Tax Break Said to Trickle Up by Nick Timiraos of the WSJ.Excerpts: "Federal tax benefits for homeowners primarily help ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Better Looking Real Estate Agents Make More Money

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In Real Estate, Looks Can Sell: Attractive agents both list and sell homes for more money than average-looking agents, say researchers study...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

Obesity And The Benefit Of Losing Weight

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See The Magic Number That Could Fix America’s Weight Problem by Dan Kloeffler of ABC/Yahoo News. "First, the average American male w...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

100 Years Of Inflation

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has records going back to 1913. See CPI Detailed Report: Data for January 2014 . It is a PDF file and you nee...
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