In Big Picture - Posted 2 weeks ago

James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning at The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. James has held the positions of treasure...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 3 weeks ago

A roundup of economic news from around the Web.Buying Binge Over: In the New York Times David Leonhardt looks at the collapse in consumer spending. ...

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In Big Picture - Posted 3 weeks ago

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. In our sparsely populated office a b...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 4 weeks ago

In Friday's report on personal income and spending, word came that the savings rate (after-tax income less spending) rose from 0.8 percent in August t...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 4 weeks ago

Economists and others weigh in on the 0.3% drop in consumer spending.Although this report is old news (in the sense that the data are already embedde...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 4 weeks ago

Part of the reason that consumer cut back on spending in September is that Americans were putting more of their money into savings. That may not be go...

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In Economist's View - Posted 4 weeks ago

It's time for a major fiscal stimulus :When Consumers Capitulate, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: The long-feared capitulation of American con...

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In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 5 weeks ago

A roundup of economic news from around the Web.Stimulus: Writing in the Washington Post, Martin Feldstein makes the case for another stimulus package ...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 7 weeks ago

I think that the decision to let Lehman Brothers fail was a mistake. But I don't think it was the only or even the major cause of our current financia...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 9 weeks ago

The Fabulous Baker Boy writes, somewhere on Josh Marshall's TPM. My one complaint is that if Obama had won then the TARP would not have been a $700 b...

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