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Archive for February 2012
Weird stuff in high frequency markets

Weird stuff in high frequency markets

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On the left is a graph from a really neat paper, “Low-Latency Trading” by Joel Hasbrouck and Gideon Saar (2011). You’re...
Hope for Europe

Hope for Europe

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A provocative Wall Street Journal OpEd by Donald Luskin and Lorcan Kelly gives me hope for Europe.No, I’m not talking about...
Taylor on Lehman and TARP

Taylor on Lehman and TARP

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John Taylor took the trouble to respond to Paul Krugman’s latest outrage on the sources of the financial crisis.  Taylor’s...
Fed Independence 2025

Fed Independence 2025

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Headline: The Fed just  forced mortgage servicers  that got caught submitting “documents that were not properly...
Where your money goes

Where your money goes

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Two nice graphs from the New York Times  Comment: Now, could we please stop talking about how we need more taxes to...
Wallison on financial regulation

Wallison on financial regulation

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Peter Wallison has an important Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal last week (AEI link) titled “Dodd-Frank and the...
The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate

The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate

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(This is a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed. If you don’t subscribe, there is a pdf on my webpage.)When the administration affirmed...
Taylor's graphs

Taylor's graphs

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John Taylor wrote a very nice blog post, “Reassessing the recovery”. He made two graphs, reproduced here. On the top you...
Sargent on debt and defaults

Sargent on debt and defaults

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Tom Sargent’s Wall Street Journal oped is well worth reading closely. It’s a very short summary of his Nobel prize speechAs...
Negative stimulus, 1946

Negative stimulus, 1946

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I ran across a fascinating article, “A Post-Mortem on Transition Predictions of National Product,”  in the 1946 Journal...
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