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Remember That Petition Against Larry Summers? I Regret Signing It | Janet Yellen & The Fed on Blog#42
Remember That Petition Against Larry .@LHSummers? I Regret Signing It
Jared Bernstein on The Phillips Curve: The Fed, Jobs, interest rates, and economic models | Blog#42
The Phillips Curve is at best in ill repair, if not just outright broken.
Jared Bernstein
August 23rd, 2015
The Fed, economists, and African American #unemployment | Blog#42
Precious little is written anymore about economic policy and Black unemployment. Continue reading The Fed, economists, and African American #unemployment | Blog#42
Jared Bernstein: CBPP Forum: Full Employment
Our full employment event…the video!
Watch it here, where ‘it’ is the event CBPP ran yesterday for our full employment project. Ben Bernanke–now a fellow blogger(!)–gave a great keynote speech wherein he made a connection that I view as very important: adding an international dimension to the secular stagnation discussion.
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Jared Bernstein: Unemployment, Black Unemployment and The Fed
The Fed, full employment, African-Americans, and an event that brings it all together
Continue reading Jared Bernstein: Unemployment, Black Unemployment and The Fed
Defining Secular Stagnation | Economics
When we think of economic downturns, we generally think of them as flat up or down. We are all familiar with terms like recession. That is what we are now very slowly getting out of. We know, from our parents and grandparents, what the utter devastation of a depression is. We know, from our most recent experience, the Great Recession, what that feels like. Some months back, a term was added to the economic conversation: secular stagnation. Though the concept isn’t a new one, it has recently been reintroduced. Continue reading Defining Secular Stagnation | Economics
Jared Bernstein: Full #employment, trade deficits, and the dollar as reserve currency
By Jared Bernstein
October 7, 2014
Full employment, trade deficits, and the dollar as reserve currency. What are the connections?
I’ve been looking for an excuse to scratch out a few lines about the connections between full employment, the trade deficit, and dollar policy—connections that understandably don’t jump out at everyone—and I’ve found a particularly good one.
Full employment and trade deficits: PK v. JB re $ | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
By Jared Bernstein
October 8, 2014
Paul K’s agrees with me on the core aspects of my post yesterday regarding our persistent trade deficits as a barrier to full employment, but disagrees the dollars status as a reserve currency has much to do with it.
Jared Bernstein: Absent full employment or a bubble, middle class income and wealth will fall
By Jared Bernstein
September 15, 2014
Robert Samuelson covers some useful ground this morning, reviewing income and net worth trends from the recent Survey of Consumer Finances, a triennial (it comes out every three years) survey of family income and wealth. I wanted to add a few points regarding timing of the trends he cites.