Scary Chart

Here’s a depressing chart, courtesy of the enthralling and overwhelming All Things Data site Calculated Risk.  This shows the percent of job losses relative to the peak employment month for every post-WWII US recession (there have been 11). You can see...

Lexicographers’ Time-Out

Slate is covering the announcement by Merriam-Webster of the top ten words of the year for 2010: Say what you will about its appeal (or lack thereof) as fiscal policy, but the Top Word of 2010, according to Merriam-Webster, is austerity. The distinction is based on...

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics

The 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded today to Prof. Peter Diamond of MIT, Prof. Dale Mortensen of Northwestern, and Prof. Christopher Pissarides of the London School of Economics, for their work on–in the broadest sense–markets...
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