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Interview with Robert Barro: Empirical Macroeconomics
John Hartley serves as an interlocutor. "Revisiting empirical macroeconomics with Robert Barro"…
Occupancy Rate Decreased 8.1% Year-over-year due to Easter Timing
by Calculated risk 4/24/2025 01:55:00 PM As expected For Easter and Passover…
The Vice President Meets the Pope
Catholic Vice President J.D. Vance met Pope Francis on April 20th, the…
What Science Says About Food Additives
Yves here. This post usefully goes a bit deeper into the regulatory…
Wisconsin Policy Forum: “Turbulence for Wisconsin’s Export Economy”
A great overview is provided This report is out today -I think…
10 Tuesday AM Reads – The Big Picture
My Morning Train Reads: • Why patience is important during market stress:…
How to cure ‘premature enumeration’
John von Neumann, who created game theory, advanced many branches of mathematics…
Current UK stagnation may have many causes, but one we know about is the UK media. Plus why the UK definition of a recession is no longer fit for purpose.
In the UK, the definition of recession Most people use it Two…
Social machines | The Enlightened Economist
My friend Wendy Hall co-authored a 2019 book Social Machine Theory and…

