Spherical Model

Obama's tweet, image found here Earlier this week, former president Barack Obama celebrated the 11 th anniversary of signing of t...

Some years ago, I talked about government interference affecting the economy. There’s a pair of posts: Parabolas and The Trampoline Effec...

Sometimes it’s worth saying things again. The economy changes, but economic principles don’t. So some of what I’ve written can be said ...

We haven’t done an economic post in a while. Numbers came out last week, at the end of the month, and we can use those. If you’ve been r...

A couple of days ago Greg Mankiw’s economics blog posted a chart showing the ratio of the population that is employed, from 2004 through th...

natural parabolic shape of a recession and recovery With recessions, the rule is: what goes down must come back up. The natural shape of...