Posts Tagged ‘CEPR’

Murdoch, Gang of Six, etc.

(1) Laffer’s Latest Curve-ball: Subscriber Kris W. alerted us that the dumb op-ed Arthur Laffer co-wrote for the WSJ a while back, which John Miller critiques in his July/August Up Against the Wall Street Journal column, is posted all over the web on anti-union websites and elsewhere. In connection with the NLRB’s recent decision against ...Read more.

Basel; Older Workers; Mott’s Strike; IMF

(1) Basel III Underwhelms.   Global banking regulators came out with new rules on Sunday, mostly regarding capital reserves.  Here’s what the article in yesterday’s New York Times had to say: The new requirements will more than triple the amount of capital that banks must hold in reserve, an effort to move banks toward more conservative ...Read more.

Unemployment, Austerity, Stimulus

[N.B.:  First three items by our fabulous summer intern Elizabeth Murphy, who also chose this post's Possibly Irrelevant Image. Sorry for the delay posting these!] (1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the July unemployment numbers last Friday (Aug.6) and they do not look pretty. Unemployment remains exactly where it was at the end of ...Read more.

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