In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 2 hours ago

In recent weeks, policy makers from President Barack Obama to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have been taking extraordinary measures to remove ...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 6 hours ago

Invictus: An Epidemic of Laziness? Mary Daly and Bart Hobijn: Okun s Law and the Unemployment Surprise of 2009 Romer: Too soon for spending clamp-d...

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In Brad Delong's Journal - Posted 6 hours ago

Invictus: An Epidemic of Laziness? Mary Daly and Bart Hobijn: Okun s Law and the Unemployment Surprise of 2009 Romer: Too soon for spending clamp-d...

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In Businesspundit - Posted 19 hours ago

Bank of America has become the first financial institution to stop overdrafts, not just overdraft fees, from debit cards. That means that the bank won...

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In Wall Street Journal: MarketBeat - Posted 23 hours ago

Investors don t seem at all daunted that Bank of America plans to do away with overdraft fees on debit card purchases. That s probably because thi...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 23 hours ago

A roundup of economic news from around the Web.Fed Seats: Mark Thoma asks why so many Fed seats are unfilled. For whatever reason, the administrat...

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In Big Picture - Posted 1 day ago

People are starving for yield because rates are at zero. They re taking more risk than they think. -Paul Tramontano, Constellation Wealth Advis...

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In Economist's View - Posted 1 day ago

At MoneyWatch:Why Do Federal Reserve Board Seats Remain Unfilled?, by Mark ThomaThe administration has not taken full advantage of the opportunity to ...

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In Econbrowser - Posted 1 day ago

On Friday I joined fellow blogger Mark Thoma (and a good many other economists) at a very interesting conference on financial markets held at the Fede...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 1 day ago

Well, here we are again: on one side, a rapidly growing contingent of optimists; on the other, a shrinking cadre of pessimists. According to USA Today...

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