Uncovering the Truth About Foreign Debt

Unlocking Collective Intelligence: Evolve Together

Topical Emails from all different sites. Pulled from my In-Box and which I have no time to write about. Thinking, they still may be of interest to readers who visit Angry Bear. Please be topical or at least close. Healthcare Our Healthcare Data Infrastructure Is Abysmal, MedPage Today, John (Xuefeng) Jiang. Is our healthcare data infrastructure prepared for the next health crisis? Our research indicates it is alarmingly unprepared. A New...

In keeping with the runup to the election next year, I will post some views making some sense out of of what is taking place. Infidel takes a look at how Democrats views are being seen as extreme or even more extreme the Republicans by the stances they are taking. People are beginning to see Republicans in a different light. Infidel753, Political realities and dangerous delusions, Infidel753 Blog Somebody’s got to say it.  The far-left...

Figure 1: Variation in the Economic Life of a Machine with Technical Progress I have invented graphs for visualizing how the analysis of the choice of technique varies with perturbations of parameters in models of prices of production. This post presents some examples of one type of diagram. One must click on a link with each graph, I guess, to fully understand what is being depicted. Figure 1 is an extension of an example from Betram Schefold (21 May 2020). This example concerns...

from Tony Lawson and RWER current issue I fear, though, that many economists, even some that present themselves as radical thinkers, are too caught up in their own survival (or promotion ambitions, etc.) in the academy to move in a direction of any relevance. The convenient, often seemingly compulsory, recourse is to stay on the safe and (in truth far too) easy (if seemingly impressive to the non-mathematical) path to nowhere that is economic modelling. Already numerous self-styled...

I told you not to worry.

New home sales: if you lower prices, they (buyers) will come  – by New Deal democrat New home sales are the most leading of all the housing metrics, but suffer from being heavily revised as well as extreme volatility.  With that caveat out of the way, in December new single family home sales (blue in the graph below) rose 49,000 on an annualized basis to 664,000, just about in the middle of their last year’s range: Because the much...

The Secret Connection: Income, Prices

‘Vår ekonomi’ — nationalekonomisk lärobok med stora brister Varje höst håller your truly sedan fler år tillbaka en introduktionskurs i nationalekonomi för blivande gymnasielärare i samhällskunskap. Förutom några av mina egna böcker, står även Klas Eklunds Vår ekonomi på litteraturlistan. Vår ekonomi kom år 2020 ut i sin senaste (15:e) upplaga. Imponerande och i sig ett bevis på bokens många förtjänster, inte minst de pedagogiska. Men tyvärr har boken...