tag:www.businessweek.com,2010-03-09:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38 2012-02-10T13:39:05Z Read the world economy blog for global economic issues. Stay up to date on economic analysis, and read updated economic commentary from industry experts. Movable Type 4.37 tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32175 2012-02-10T11:40:06Z 2012-02-10T13:39:05Z

"Krugman has staked out a rather crude Keynesian position and unrelentingly so," Sachs said today, referring to John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who advocated government spending to spur economic growth during the Great Depression. Krugman "knows one thing, which...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32170 2012-02-08T11:58:20Z 2012-02-08T12:39:58Z

WJB Capital, which was based in New York and employed about 100 people, halted its brokerage operations following a year of slower trading, a shortage of capital and interest rates of 25 percent on some debts. MF Global, the New...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32168 2012-02-07T15:41:56Z 2012-02-07T15:52:28Z

Ahmad Bradshaw's six-yard touchdown "run" was accidental and insane and just perfect. It was sort of the athletic equivalent of putting opposite magnets next to each other. It looked like he had just been tased. Will Leitch, New York Magazine,...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32161 2012-02-03T12:06:05Z 2012-02-03T13:15:05Z

Maintain Buy -- While we sure don't like the fact that PG is losing market share in a bunch of big categories and big markets, we aren't ready to say that PG is a broken story or broken stock. These...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32157 2012-02-02T02:55:16Z 2012-02-02T13:14:56Z

We think the world's information infrastructure should resemble the social graph -- a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the monolithic, top-down structure that has existed to date. --Letter from Mark Zuckerberg, 01 Feb 2012 Unfavorable...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32155 2012-02-01T12:09:16Z 2012-02-01T14:48:02Z

Just when there's the Glimmer of Margin Stabilization, there's the Cloud of Revenue Deceleration... --Mark Mahaney, Citigroup, 01/31, 4:55 pm, first look at amazon.com revenues (or lack there of). Mr. Pearlman, out at StockTwits, nails it. Low margin businesses leave...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32148 2012-01-31T11:59:46Z 2012-01-31T12:46:48Z

There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done. --Albert Camus, The...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32141 2012-01-26T11:34:53Z 2012-01-26T18:33:48Z

John Gapper, over at the FT, has the best phrase I have seen at this Dithering Davos. It is "this awkward time." Life goes on five years into crisis. Everything "Big" has access to capital, is up-to-their-eyeballs in cash and...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32138 2012-01-24T12:09:40Z 2012-01-24T13:11:17Z

Countries should fight rising inequality with policies that simultaneously curb the income gap between rich and poor while boosting economic growth. --Reducing Inequality While Boosting Economic Growth is Possible, OECD Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan, via e-mail, 23 January 2012....

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32134 2012-01-20T11:13:20Z 2012-01-20T12:30:36Z

...the inflation and the stagflation of the 1970s did more to persuade economists that there was something wrong with Keynesian economics--that you needed supply-side policies and all that--than all the empirical evidence on the econometric studies against Keynesian economics. Sometimes...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32131 2012-01-18T19:39:47Z 2012-01-18T20:25:32Z

Today, when you tap a mechanical meter to increase its accuracy, you are applying dither, and modern dictionaries define dither as a highly nervous, confused, or agitated state. In minute quantities, dither successfully makes a digitization system a little more...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32126 2012-01-15T17:00:11Z 2012-01-15T18:07:49Z

...we have just introduced a new currency in eleven countries with different histories, cultures and backgrounds. Establishing and maintaining a European culture of stability is of the utmost importance. This also explains why central bankers regularly express their views on...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32114 2012-01-11T03:21:18Z 2012-01-12T23:04:59Z

One strategy for reading comprehension is the technique called SQ3R. This stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. In order to get an understanding of the text, you should survey the chapters. This consists of quickly looking at the...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2012:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32104 2012-01-08T23:32:27Z 2012-01-08T23:47:19Z

Even if all of these funds were used for spending increases or tax reductions, the debt held by the public was still projected to be paid off, on a net basis, by 2012. Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag,...

Tom Keene tag:www.businessweek.com,2011:/the_thread/economicsunbound//38.32083 2011-12-22T13:18:36Z 2011-12-22T13:32:37Z

Clarida and Gertler (1997) present both formal and informal evidence that the Bundesbank's commitment to fight inflation waned somewhat during the period between the two major oil shocks. In 1979 it conceded that this had been a mistake and reaffirmed...

Tom Keene