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Fairfield Daily Republic
April 21, 2018
That's the view of a small group of heterodox economists – self-described the “deficit owls” – who say that the deficit does not pose a problem, and that the proposals to rein in the deficit represent the real threat to the nation's well- being. Deficit spending, they say, has given the government extra money toÃÂ ...
Quartz
April 21, 2018
A group of economists, convened by the National Taxpayers Union, are taking the parallels between Smoot-Hawley and Trump's tariffs even further. They are recycling a letter signed by 1,028 economists, sent to president Herbert Hoover in 1930 to protest the original bill, to warn the current White HouseÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
April 21, 2018
Economists broadly agree that Arizona's economy is growing and likely will pick up steam, but some people doubt the growth will be enough to fund the ambitious teacher pay raises Gov. Doug Ducey pitched amid pending walkouts at public schools. The governor on April 12 announced a plan to alter hisÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
April 20, 2018
The Lamppost Theory dominates economic policy-making: Politicians use economics the way a drunk uses a lamppost — for support, not for illumination. Perhaps the best illustration of the theory is the headlines these days: the starkly different economic versus political attitudes toward international trade.
Barron's
April 20, 2018
Politicians routinely ignore the best advice of economists. It's politically naive, they complain, or too complicated, or simply sounds wrong. And since politicians, not economists, make the decisions, our economic policies reflect what I call the Lamppost Theory: Politicians use economics the way a drunk usesÃÂ ...
The Economist
April 19, 2018
Downturns come often enough to be a serious irritant, but not often enough to give economists sufficient data for rigorous statistical analysis. It is hard to distinguish between short-run swings and structural economic changes resulting from demography or technology. Most classical economists wereÃÂ ...
Infosurhoy
March 28, 2018
The study by Marina Della Giusta and colleagues from the UK-based University of Reading shows that the most popular economists tend to tweet less, mention less, and mention fewer users than a comparable group of experts in the sciences. Giusta and her co-authors also show that economists use lessÃÂ ...
Eyewitness News
March 28, 2018
Economists say that the chances of an interest rate cut have increased and expect a drop of 25 basis points. This would lower the repo rate to 6.5% and the prime lending rate to 10%. Citi Bank's South Africa economist Gina Schoeman says that since the last MPC meeting, the country's economic prospectsÃÂ ...
Capital Press
March 28, 2018
Increasing milk production in the U.S. and Europe, relatively high stocks of U.S. dairy products and trade uncertainties are a few, according to economists at the University of Wisconsin. U.S. milk production was up 1.8 percent in January and February year over year, and that's a lot of milk, Bob Cropp,ÃÂ ...
NPR
March 28, 2018
Most economists, of various political leanings, are a lot less worried about the trade gap, which totaled $568 billion last year. "I don't think it's a problem for the U.S. to have a large trade deficit," says Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The UnitedÃÂ ...
BBC News
March 27, 2018
Scotland's growth is being held back by the clutter of initiatives coming from the Scottish government, according to a leading economic think tank. The Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) has criticised the number of different strategies and advisory groups looking at Scotland's economy. It has warned they canÃÂ ...
Marketplace.org
March 27, 2018
When it comes to fiscal policy, it might seem like politicians and economists would work in lockstep. But in many cases, the politics come first — and that tends to lead to policies with not-so-sound data backing it up. And according to Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder, the fault might lie withÃÂ ...
Axios
March 26, 2018
Yes, but: Economists are ringing alarm bells that a recession may soon follow. Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics' chief economist, told Bloomberg that 2020 is a "real inflection point." In the short-term, some economic forecasters believe the American economy will experience historically low unemployment and rising wages,ÃÂ ...
The Hill
March 26, 2018
Business economists are confident about growth in the U.S. economy this year, according to a new survey. The National Association for Business Economics projected the economy will expand 2.9 percent in 2018, compared to a 2.5 percent projection in December. “NABE Outlook panelists are moreÃÂ ...
ABC Online
March 22, 2018
Two major Australian financial institutions claim it is time for an uncomfortable economic reality check. Key points: Economists say wage growth and better working conditions are unlikely to improve; Underutilisation rate (number of Australians who want more work) is too high at 14 per cent; Nearly 20 perÃÂ ...
Yahoo Finance
March 22, 2018
Facebook's (FB) latest troubles with regulators may be the canary in the coal mine warning of the looming collapse of the tech bubble, say economists from BNP Paribas. The company is facing, among other issues, a lawsuit filed on behalf of 50 million users, Congressional hearings, a probe by the FederalÃÂ ...
Business Day
March 22, 2018
Retail sales growth in January came to 3.1% from the same month in 2016 — half the economists' consensus of 6.2%. In current prices, retail sales fell to R78bn in January from R117.5bn in December, Statistics SA reported on Thursday. Retail sales in January tend to drop sharply from the annualÃÂ ...
Rappler
March 22, 2018
MANILA, Philippines – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana briefed some of the country's top economists on the national security situation on Wednesday night, March 21. Lorenzana gave an off-the-record security briefing to members of the Foundation for Economic Freedom, a group of economists chairedÃÂ ...
The Hill
March 21, 2018
Chinese economist Yi Gang has become well known in international economic circles in recent years as deputy governor of the People's Bank of China. Hence it was reassuring that he was promoted to replace retiring Governor Zhou Xiaochuan. Yi's promotion is something of a surprise because he hasÃÂ ...
New Statesman
March 19, 2018
Economists, by contrast, can't even agree on why the last financial crisis happened, let alone what we should do to prevent the next one – and that's despite the fact that we wrote the rules of finance ourselves. Real sciences make progress. Economics, on the other hand, seems to go round and round inÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
March 17, 2018
While most agree that the risk of four hikes in 2018 is building, economists generally think the Fed will steer the dot-plot higher only gradually. “The committee, in our view, is more likely to move to four hikes this year at the June meeting, when incoming data affirm that fiscal stimulus is having the anticipatedÃÂ ...
The Business Times
March 17, 2018
AN UNEXPECTED decline in Singapore's exports last month surprised economists who were hoping for another month of growth amid the ongoing global economic upturn. But it is too soon to tell if the contraction points to slowing export momentum, given that the timing of the Chinese New Year - whichÃÂ ...
Cato Institute (blog)
March 17, 2018
In a new study, economist Mickey Levy included a chart illustrating the inaccuracies of Federal Reserve economic forecasts. Levy is with Berenberg Capital Markets and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. The chart shows the Fed's year-ahead projections for real GDP (gray bars) and actualÃÂ ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian
March 16, 2018
President Donald Trump's White House has sparred with porn stars, actors, and even the president's own Saturday Night Live impersonator. Now, the president is fighting with economists from his own alma mater. Earlier this month, the team of economists behind the Penn Wharton Budget Model becameÃÂ ...
CNBC
March 16, 2018
California's job growth appeared to slow a year ago but things have picked up since then and economists insist there's no recession on the horizon. Yet economists say the Trump administration's trade and immigration policies could at some point trip up California's economy. A recent report from the stateÃÂ ...
The Conversation UK
March 14, 2018
In response to such assumptions or accusations, some of the world's leading economists are attempting to explain #WhatEconomistsReallyDo. This is an important effort. But I think this discussion is also a great opportunity for economists to reflect on their own prejudices, in particular those regarding otherÃÂ ...
Casper Star-Tribune Online
March 6, 2018
Wyoming will have to wait a few weeks to see how many jobs have returned due to increased oil and gas activities, according to state economists. In a snapshot of the state economy, the mining sector continued to show marginal improvements through February, with more rigs out in the oil and gas fieldsÃÂ ...
MarketWatch
March 6, 2018
Eliminating gender inequality in the U.S. labor force is a key to unlocking higher and long-lasting economic growth, if only policy makers would take notice, according to economists Beth Ann Bovino and Jason Gold at S&P Global. In a report released to commemorate the International Women's Day onÃÂ ...
SBS
March 6, 2018
Treasurer Scott Morrison will need to quickly dissect the latest economic growth results to find the good news, with economists predicting an overall sluggish outcome. Wednesday's national accounts - a comprehensive guide to the wellbeing of the economy - are expected to show the economy grew by justÃÂ ...
Palm Beach Post
March 6, 2018
South Florida ranks among the least likely metro areas to land Amazon's second headquarters, according to a Zillow survey. Zillow asked 85 housing economists and professors to predict the winner of Amazon's HQ2. Atlanta and Northern Virginia tied as the most likely suspects, according to the survey.
The Sydney Morning Herald
March 6, 2018
Uber, Airtasker and other parts of the so called gig economy are driving down wages and will keep doing it until the government intervenes, nine of Australia's most eminent economists have warned. The responses in the latest poll conducted by Monash University and the Economic Society of AustraliaÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 6, 2018
Now we have the opinion of the nation's economists, thanks to a regular survey by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. According to results published Friday, the survey's panel of 43 economists (conservatives, progressives, and almost every shade in between) is nearly unanimous aboutÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 6, 2018
Most economists do not see the trade gap as money “lost” to other countries, nor do they worry about trade deficits to a large degree. That's because trade imbalances are affected by a host of macroeconomic factors, including the relative growth rates of countries, the value of their currencies, and theirÃÂ ...
The Times
March 5, 2018
A research paper entitled How the Economics Profession Got it Wrong on Brexit, sent out by the campaign group Briefings for Brexit, found that the decision to take the UK out of the EU will have only a small negative impact on economic growth over the coming years, and is likely to have a minor impact onÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
March 5, 2018
No longer such a big Trump fan? An appalled Larry Kudlow contemplates the damage done to the markets on Thursday by the president's tariff announcement. It got worse that day, with the Dow falling more than 420 points. (CNBC). Shed a tear for Lawrence Kudlow, Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore.
NPR
December 31, 1999
It was March 2007, China's legislature was wrapping up its annual session and Premier Wen Jiabao was about to speak at the closing press conference. The economy was seeing double-digit growth, a consumer class was rising and Beijing was soon hosting its first Olympics — there was every reason forÃÂ ...
The Times
February 27, 2018
For years economists have toiled in vain to predict the next downturn. Millions of pounds have been spent, algorithms of unfathomable proportions have been created and mountains of data have been analysed, but all to no avail. Now research suggests that the brightest economic brains should insteadÃÂ ...
River Falls Journal
February 27, 2018
Dr. Rod Raehsler, professor of economics at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, will serve a two-year term as a vice president on the national board of directors for Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honor society for economics. As a national officer, he joins Nobel Prize economists Robert Lucas,ÃÂ ...
The Australian Financial Review
February 27, 2018
It's both "typical" and "counter-intuitive" for the Aussie dollar to climb against the greenback when the Fed begins hiking rates, and it's commodity prices that are likely to drive the currency in the year ahead, economists say. Local 10-year rates at 2.77 per cent now sit around 9 basis points, or 0.09ÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
February 25, 2018
Christopher Payne and Rob Barnett are formerly obese economists and the authors of "The Economists' Diet." In explaining how to lose weight, they recommend using "meta-rules," or guidelines that apply on all occasions, to lose weight. The idea is to minimize decision-making and save yourself some mental energy.
Interest.co.nz
February 19, 2018
ANZ economists don't believe the recent uptick in house prices will result in a full-blown resurgence, and think that prices will be capped to a degree by affordability constraints and various measures proposed by the new Government. In their weekly Market Focus publication the economists reiterate theirÃÂ ...
The Business Times
February 19, 2018
WITH Singapore's strengthening economy having boosted government coffers, economists predict a larger-than-expected budget surplus for the financial year ending March . Ahead of Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat's delivery of the Budget on Feb 19, economists have been busy crunching the numbersÃÂ ...
Interest.co.nz
February 18, 2018
The financial markets are currently too keen to get out of the starting blocks picking interest rate rises, according to Westpac economists. They don't see interest rate rises till late next year - and they think a subdued housing market will be one of the reasons why. In their Weekly Commentary the WestpacÃÂ ...
ForexLive
February 18, 2018
But ... many of the economists pointed to yen strength as a problem for the BOJ. "The rapid appreciation of the yen increases the chance of a delay in raising the 10-year bond yield target," said Atsushi Takeda, chief economist at Itochu Corp. "If the yen breaks through 100 to the dollar, additional easingÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
February 18, 2018
With Singapore's strengthening economy having boosted government coffers, economists predict a larger than expected Budget surplus for the financial year ending March 31. Ahead of Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat's delivery of the Budget today, economists have made their own estimates of theÃÂ ...
Agriculture.com
February 16, 2018
Farm state members of Congress don't support the Trump administration's 2019 budget proposals for crop insurance, but ag economists take them seriously enough to analyze their effects on farmers and insurers. Last year, for example, Kansas State University economists Art Barnaby and Mykel TaylorÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 16, 2018
More recently, economists have emphasized how trade affects productivity. In a model pioneered by my Harvard colleague Marc Melitz, when a nation opens up to international trade, the most productive firms expand their markets, while the least productive are forced out by increased competition.
Nonprofit Quarterly
February 15, 2018
Nearly 100 academics, urbanists, and policy experts have written a letter that calls on cities and states to reject the “level of incentives and the looming competition between cities over incentives for Amazon's new headquarters,” reports Abbie Bennett in the Raleigh News & Observer. More than 13,000 haveÃÂ ...
Vanity Fair
February 15, 2018
Of course, as everyone but the president seems to understand, screwing over your creditors isn't something you can do as a head of state, nor is the United States government some seedy Atlantic City casino you can refinance—a fact that economists have been at pains to drive home since the presidentÃÂ ...
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
February 14, 2018
Economists want the government to increase budgetary allocations for agriculture and manufacturing to anchor realization of two agendas of the government's Big Four Plan. They also argue that past budgetary allocations have not been commensurate to the two sectors' contribution to the economy.
