For political reasons Trump had reduced the number of troops to 2500 by x-mas in spite of pleas from many generals. He had also signed what can only be described as surrender papers to the Taliban. Finally he had done nothing to get those Afghan friends back to US (less than 500 had ...
In the past few years, however, there have been many projects to make at least the abstracts of substantial economic research papers freely available through the Web. One of the most successful of the international collaborative efforts is the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) archive, which ...
Even if auto sales in Q3 were at the same low level they had been in Q2, a 0% rather than -0.13% contribution would mean a higher GDP growth rate for Q3 than Q2, other things equal. And even with a very bad September, Q3 auto sales should handily exceed Q2. An even stronger ...
how things go from public policy, to the media, to the people, and how that goes back. Um. And it was a very difficult time for a lot of people to kind of understand that route, and it’s definitely led
ROSE:Putting aside police shootings, there’s ample evidence that the rest of encounters with police—so lower-level encounters where a police officer is frisking you, for example, or even using some more minor levels of force—there’s huge racial disparities in the r...
Putting these together, I think that Chinese GDP growth numbers are believable, but really nobody knows the true size of the Chinese economy. In terms of Chinese standards, 9% is not a fast one. University graduates have been struggling to find a job in the past few years (it is also ...
Nah. It was just a dad joke, nothing more. Ask my son. He will set you straight. josephOctober 9, 2019 at 9:42 am One of the more interesting papers showing that all of the cost of tariffs is passed through to consumers was by Aaron Flaanen, Ali Hortaçsu, and Felix Tintelnot...
And please note that I am not saying that quality will be uniformly high, across all of the tasks in pts. a) through e). It will vary, both for each paper, and across all papers. You may need humans in the loop for all tasks to begin with, and maybe you can never eliminate all...
because it’s from last December. But it’s from one of my favorite journalists, Eduardo Porter. And if you look at the more general information as it relates to the effects of cutting government benefits on spending, it’s a very good read, along with the associated academic papers, ...
One last caveat in using interest rates. The past couple of years have seen what some considered aberrant behavior in long term interest rates. Several papers (Chinn and Frankel; Warnock and Warnock) have discussed this. So it may prove even more perilous than usual to rely on long term int...