The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call on Friday, November 28. The committee maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates (months and quarters) of U.S. recessions. The committee determined that a peak in economic activity occurred in the U.S. economy in December 2007. The peak marks the end of the expansion that began in November 2001 and the beginning of a recession. The expansion lasted 73 months; the previous expansion of the 1990s lasted 120 months.
Can you imagine a school dance with ALL economists?
All the guys along one wall, all the gals along another. Now where's the fun in that! - Megatron
(This should be fun.) Now where's the fun in that! - Megatron
If you asked a straight male Economist what his favorite porn site was, his answer would be ...?
Calculated Risk? Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I'd add Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture, Brad DeLong, Krugman (obviously), Atrios (when he does economics), and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Oh, that reminds me: Mr D00M Pr0n, Roubini. (Duh.) Just looking at Roubini's reaction to anything is enough to make you want to grow your own food. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
You could also become a guerilla gardener.
<That> might be right down you alley :-))
I understand how someone like Romer might not have been available for one or two FRB Friday night phone calls, explaining the EXTRAORDINARY circumstances that necessitated TDF, TAF, and PDCF "innovations." Hell, I can't keep 'em straight when I'm sober.
Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
