mattobrien

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The Most Important Economic Story Nobody is Talking About(theatlantic.com)
2 points by mattobrien 14y ago|0 comments
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A Rebellion at the Federal Reserve?(theatlantic.com)
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by mattobrien 14y ago
Can you refute the point that we can't have positive job growth and negative real GDP? Then how is overall inflation more than 2-3%?
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by mattobrien 14y ago
The Fed has tools like interest on reserves, reverse repos and term deposit facilities to make sure that all of the excess reserves on bank balance sheets don't turn into actual price increases. Austrian economists conflate increases in the
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The One Number That Proves the Inflation Threat Is a Bogeyman(theatlantic.com)
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The 2% Catastrophe: How One Number Explains the Miserable Economy(theatlantic.com)
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Austerity's Greatest Failure, UK-Edition(theatlantic.com)
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How Big Government Saves Us From Being Europe(theatlantic.com)
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Ignore the Headlines. The Euro Is Still Doomed.(theatlantic.com)
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by mattobrien 14y ago
Because if Europe had the right institutions, it would be worth saving. The cost of breakup is so high. Unfortunately, the things they need to do to save the euro economically make it less politically likely that they'll be able to get the
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Why the Euro Isn't Worth Saving*(theatlantic.com)
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How Much Is A Good Central Banker Worth?(theatlantic.com)
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No, I Don't Care What Obama Ate 40 Years Ago, Why Do You Ask?(roundtable.nationaljournal.com)
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by mattobrien 14y ago
GDP is a flow. So is personal income. GDP is the dollar value of the stuff we sell. The flip side of that is that this is how much income we earned. You can dispute this, but it's what it means. http://bit.ly/HYokZe Your example is flawed
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by mattobrien 14y ago
Spain has real structural problems in its labor markets. But those kind of generous policies aren't unique to Spain within Europe. And other European countries have far, far, far lower unemployment. Why? The answer is that employment policy
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by mattobrien 14y ago
I don't think that proves what you think it proves. You're missing what he would do with that $25k if he marries his maid. Maybe he would spend it on something else. Maybe he saves it and the bank loans it to someone else. In either case, i
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Spain Is Doomed(theatlantic.com)
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Mitt Romney's Tax Plan is Still A Mathematical Failure(theatlantic.com)
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The Euro crisis is back. Actually, it never left.(theatlantic.com)
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The Weirdest Thing About The Instagram Deal(theatlantic.com)
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Why Baseball Players Are Actually Underpaid(theatlantic.com)
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The Strange and Sexist Economics of Diamond Rings(theatlantic.com)
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by mattobrien 16y ago
Marie Antoinette would approve of that sentiment. Let them eat Big Macs?
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by mattobrien 16y ago
There's something called the Bill of Rights. It's to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Just because the majority wants something doesn't mean it's legal.
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by mattobrien 16y ago
Fannie and Freddie actually lost market share as the bubble really got going. They were prohibited from getting into most subprime, and tried to get around their regulations. Wall Street was the driver in buying up these shitty mortgages to
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by mattobrien 17y ago
There was a run on investment banks after Lehman's failure. Merrill Lynch was on the edge of the abyss before Ken Lewis made the deal of the century - for John Thain. Morgan Stanley was next. Their CEO John Mack successfully lobbied the gov
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by mattobrien 17y ago
You're afraid health care will become too bureaucratic? Are you familiar with health insurance companies? There's already a bureaucrat between you and your doctor - the fact that he's from the private sector doesn't change that fact. And pr
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by mattobrien 17y ago
I agree that this is not a tenuous connection, but you failed to mention in your first post that the wage freeze was during the Second World War. Oil was rationed. Factories converted for war production. The entire economy was mobilized beh
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by mattobrien 17y ago
Amen. Anyone who talks about future deficits and doesn't talk about healthcare costs isn't serious. Social Security will be more or less fine with some combination of tax increases and/or benefit reduction (i.e. raising retirement age). But
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by mattobrien 17y ago
He was one of the top guys at Blackstone. They are a private equity group. Their stock has gone down 80% since they IPOed. He was lucky that he cashed out when he did. Getting rich buying companies with borrowed money, and then unloading th

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