Andy (see the comments section to this post on ‘Csikszereda musings’) draws my attention to this very interesting review in the NYT, of the Romanian restaurant “Acasa”, from Queens, New York.
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Enter Fed Govs
Functions, backgrounds, hobbies. The USA Federal Reserve Governors. Via Greg Mankiw’s blog.
PS. It is apparently not so bad to be appointed a Fed Gov and certainly even better to get to be the Fed’s Chairman- if you expected this and somebody else got it, you might really resent it (I also mentioned this funny CBS clip here)…
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One has to look at this with the caveat that the subjects ‘interviewed’ in this clip are what one calls a ‘selected sample’ (there is really no subject who makes any sense), hence it is a matter of stretching the logic quite a lot to generalize anything to “Americans”, as a whole, from watching it.
→ Read more Paul Krugman on Milton Friedman (and my opinion on Krugman’s essay)
Quite a long essay of Paul Krugman on Milton Friedman, in the New York Review of Books. I must say I would only call “fascinating”, as Greg Mankiw does (with a shadow of irony, I’d like to hope; he couldn’t have read the entire article, otherwise), its first part, up to the 3rd section (part which is also well written and informative, I’d say, also for persons who did not have formal training in Economics).
→ Read more On raising the federal minimum wage in USA, again
So what’s new? There is now a very interesting survey in the EconJournalWatch, which asks a set of questions to the 659 economists (some of them top researchers whom I always admired and admire- not necessarily for their views in this context, though) who signed the formal statement released by the EPI, concerning a raise of the federal minimum wage.
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