Economics Blogs

Calculated Risk

• A few Comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices
• Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 1.7% year-over-year in July
• BLS: Job Openings Unchanged at 7.2 million in August
• Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 1.7% year-over-year in July
• Tuesday: Case-Shiller House Prices, Job Openings

Upshot (New York Times)

• The E.V. Road Trip Went from Impossible to Easy
• Trump Is Still Unpopular in Our Poll. Why Aren’t Democrats Doing Better?
• After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds
• Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds
• Readers Have Their Own Suggestions on Redistricting

Marginal Revolution

• What should I ask Gaurav Kapadia?
• UK fact of the day
• Tuesday assorted links
• The costs of traffic noise
• I was curious, so I asked

Paul Krugman (New York Times)

• My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
• Crony Capitalism Is Coming to America
• How Hostility to Immigrants Will Hurt America’s Tech Sector
• The Dollar Still Has Its Mojo. X, Not So Much.
• Here’s How Trump Could Lose the Coming Trade War

The Big Picture

• Transcript: Dmitry Balyasny, Founder/CIO Balyasny Asset Management
• 10 Monday AM Reads
• 10 Sunday Reads
• 10 Weekend Reads
• MiB: Dmitry Balyasny, Founder/CIO Balyasny Asset Management

Conversable Economist

• Save the Whales by Pricing the Ship Noise Externality
• Mortgage Lock-In
• Do Rules to Limit High Government Debt Work?
• Snapshots of the Global Robot Population
• Measuring Benefits of High-Skilled Immigration

Mainly Macro

• Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market
• Farage and the BBC
• Parallels between what to do about Trump and what to do about Farage
• Key myths on asylum, immigration and how to take on the far right
• The real fiscal concern should be a populist government

Money and Banking

• U.S. Regulators should raise — not lower — big bank capital requirements
• Fed division of powers: Who controls monetary policy?
• New CEPR Policy Insight: Crypto, Tokenization and the Future of Payments
• Are stablecoins really the future of payments?
• Central Bank Liquidity Swaps: A Primer

Equitable Growth

• In Conversation with Omari Swinton
• Emergency paid leave during the COVID-19 pandemic offered essential protections for U.S. workers
• Fitting the Bill? The First Federal Paid Leave Mandate
• Equitable Growth announces funding for research on the impact of AI on U.S. workers and competition
• Populist voters feel a sense of loss that is reshaping democracies around the world

Liberty Street Economics (New York Fed)

• Calming the Panic: Investor Risk Perceptions and the Fed’s Emergency Lending during the 2023 Bank Run
• Reading the Panic: How Investors Perceived Bank Risk During the 2023 Bank Run
• The Financial Stability Implications of Tokenized Investment Funds
• The Emergence of Tokenized Investment Funds and Their Use Cases
• Financial Intermediaries and Pressures on International Capital Flows

On the Economy (St. Louis Fed)

• How Common Are Monthly Payroll Job Losses during Business Expansions?
• What Causes “Jumps” in Stock Prices?
• How Well Are Inflation Expectations Anchored? Two Datasets Compared
• Small Business Lending Trends and Banking Deserts, 2019-23
• Aggregate Implications of the Rise in Firms’ Custom Software Investments