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Photos from a Conference | Econbrowser

I was at a conference — actually two — in Singapore: the Asian Bureau for Finance and Economic Research annual conference, and the Asian Monetary

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Destroying Dollar Safe Haven Status at Breakneck Speed

Consider the ten year Treasury yield and the dollar index (DXY) over the past six months: Figure 1: DXY (blue, left scale), and ten year

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I talk with Gerry Baker

Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use this blog to keep in

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Glow in the Dark Flowers!

I love these glow-in-the-dark petunias. Aside from the novelty, they speak to science and progress! The petunias were genetically modified to incorporate genes from a

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Harvard faculty put their money where their mouths are

Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use this blog to keep in

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This is Vindication???

Joe Nocera has a strange piece in the Free Press arguing that the “godfathers of protectionism” have been vindicated. It begins with a story about

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Has Clothing Declined in Quality?

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently tweeted that they wanted to bring back apparel manufacturing to the United States. Why would anyone

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Lifetime Expected Consumption

What does it mean to be wealthy and how should we factor in say, life expectancy? Lyman Stone offers an interesting measure, lifetime consumption, taking

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The Public Choice Outreach Conference

There are just a few spots left for the Public Choice Outreach Conference! Do encourage your students to apply!   The post The Public Choice

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Safe No More? Two Pictures

Prepping slides for macro, found these interesting correlations. First, how the strength of the dollar correlates with the Treasury 10 year yield, daily 2015-23 April