Thursday, May 7, 2020

Budgeting Assumptions in the Time of COVID-19

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So normally, high level you look at what your activity was last year and you adjust that based on what you think is coming in the next year ...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Macro Models, the Grapes of Wrath, and COVID-19

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With the COVID-19 pandemic in the background, I have been trying to think of how all the social orders have been upset and what the post pa...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Clearing the Mist: Models and Ideology

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Models are deliberate simplification. You do not necessarily have one kind of labor and one kind of input and you have that input at a highe...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Very little of the gain, Most of the Pain: The Stock Market and the Real Economy

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Something like 80% of all traded securities are owned by the top 10% of households by wealth. So it is galling when we see the stock market ...
Monday, February 24, 2020

The Left at the Local Level: Aiding Access

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One of the things I have been asking myself in the last five years as I have become more active in my community is “What does it mean to be ...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Bernie Sanders for President

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As both a private citizen and someone chosen by the people of the Village of Brookfield to serve in government, I want to talk about who I a...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Alternate Economic Histories: The Great Inflation

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I may have mentioned this elsewhere, but one of the things that really got me interested in economics was that I was unemployed for two year...