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A DRAFT Syllabus for Econ 113: American Economic History :: Spring 2025 :: UC Berkeley

Late to the party am I, but at least I think I have brought plenty of refreshments...What I see as the big questions of...

10 Monday AM Reads – The Big Picture

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Why Your Leveraged $MSTR ETF is Sloppy: They’re unpredictable, expensive and messy, but other than that… (Echo Beach) •...

Recent Notes… – Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality

My ScratchPad: we have not even the beginnings of an inkling of a shadow of a hint of a thought as to how to...

Will Donald Trump Get His Revenge?

Authored by Susan Quinn via AmericanThinker.com,There’s almost nothing that Donald Trump likes better than throwing his adversaries off their game; he likes to be...

Polls, Predictions, & the Persistent Problem of Political Noise

A plea for people to subscribe to and read Nate Silver & Eli McKown-Dawson's Silver Bulletin <https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model> as a vaccination against all the polling...

Emerging economies, global inflation, and growth deceleration

The "World Economic Outlook" report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on April 19th depicted a worsening in the global economic scenario for...

BlueSky Is Much Better than Twitter: Ring Lore Edition

I think many more people should come over to BlueSky. I, at least, am having much more fun...ShareShare Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality‪Charlie Jane Anders:...

Dollarization of Argentina: Revival of a Zombie Idea

Otaviano Canuto and Sebastian CarranzaOriginal post at the Policy Center for the New SouthA proposal to dollarize Argentina’s economy reached its Congress in March....

Biggest commodity price shock in 50 years

In addition to deaths and destruction in Ukraine, the Russian invasion brought several significant shocks to the global economy. In addition to the geopolitical...

The Global Food Price Shock

Original Post at the Policy Center for the New SouthThe world food price index collected for the last 60 years by the United Nations...

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Biden Admin Scrambling To Auction Off Border-Wall Sections Before Trump Takes Office

With Donald Trump set to retake office in January, the Biden administration is scrambling to auction off unused sections of Trump's border wall, the...

Do You Have a Passion for Political Solutions?

This week, as expected, the Federal Reserve did not hike nor cut the federal funds rate.  Instead, following the two-day FOMC meeting, the central...

MiB: Tony Kim, Blackrock Active Technology

     This week, we speak with Tony Kim, Managing Director and Head of the Fundamental Equities’ Global Technology Team at BlackRock. he is manager of...