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This is one of two things
In Tyler on February 16, 2013 at 3:30 pmFrom Bloomberg:
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years…
It’s either:
- Worrisome
- A reverse substitution effect
I’m interested to see which it is.
The Federal Balance Sheet
In Tyler on January 14, 2013 at 1:00 pmMy modest suggestion is that we start calculating the public sector’s “book value” by taking the difference between its actual assets and liabilities. (Since governments have the power to tax their productive citizens, the asset side of the public sector’s balance sheet should be thought of as a share of the country’s total asset holdings.) This approach would probably be more useful than the simple public debt to national income ratio, even if it comes with its own (significant) complications.
He goes on to note:
Under this framework, all government spending could be divided into three basic categories: investment to increase the future standard of living, hedging that reduces the nation’s risk exposure, and resource redistribution.
The post is fairly long and definitely worth reading.
So a lot has happened lately
In Tyler on January 14, 2013 at 8:00 amAs you can probably tell life has pulled this blogs writers in many directions as of late. Hopefully things will settle down enough for us to resume our typical schedule in 2013, but if not we will at least work to keep up occasional posting.
The Return of Nate Silver – Tyler’s AM Reads – December 18, 2012
In Tyler on December 18, 2012 at 8:00 amNate Silver writes about guns. He says:
More elaborate data-mining techniques, such as logistic regression analysis, suggest that gun ownership is a more powerful predictor of whether a voter is Republican than her gender, whether or not she identifies as gay or lesbian, whether she is Hispanic, or whether she lives in the South, along with many other demographic characteristics
Fed Policy Announced – Tyler’s AM Reads – December 13, 2012
In Tyler on December 13, 2012 at 8:00 amFish on Education
In Tyler on December 11, 2012 at 11:00 amStanley Fish writes about higher education:
The tension between a market model and a Socratic model was nicely captured by two statements Spar made in succession. The first warmed my heart: “We want to teach students things they don’t want to know.” That is, rather than regarding students as consumers (all the rage these days in places like England and Texas), we should regard them as yet-to-be-formed intellects who are often best served by saying no to their desires — as we have traditionally. But then Spar immediately added, “Yet, we can’t be too removed from the marketplace.”
Social Science Highlights – Tyler’s AM Reads – December 11, 2012
In Tyler on December 11, 2012 at 8:00 amA quick note on spending and growth
In Tyler on December 10, 2012 at 11:00 amThe graph below has been making its rounds (see this post by Tyler Cowen for several links). 
Upon first glance it appears to refute any sort of fiscal approach to restoring GDP. The red (GDP) line is table although the blue (government spending) line decreases. However the key here is noting that this graph actually shows continued growth in GDP once government spending has hit a relatively stable level. It becomes much more clear in the graph below that I put together (note red now represents government spending and blue represent GDP).
Obviously this leaves out many other factors that I would consider relevant to the NGDP recovery (tax stimulus, low interest rates, right-sized asset prices, low steady inflation, etc.), but it at least gives an accurate depiction of the spending-growth pattern that emerged after the recession.
Jake
Tyler
