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Macro Musings Blog
Personal blog · macromarketmusings.blogspot.comeconomicsbusiness
Macro Musings Blog is a personal blog at macromarketmusings.blogspot.com about economics and business. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Beckworth's macroeconomics blog as a starting point for economics, and cite its posts on the Great Stagnation and on the period during and after the financial crisis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Macro Musings Blog
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/02/great-stagnation-and-total-factor.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-13
What Hacker News says?
I'm not an economist but David Beckworth's blog, especially posts during and after the global financial crisis is a good starting point: https://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/
Comment linking /
on “BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet”Submitted A Plea to My Fellow Free Marketers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm just going to throw this out there as well, but 1973 was when the Great Stagnation began ( http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-stagnat... ), and it coincides quite closely to when Richard Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system and allows the value of the American dollar to float relative to other currencies. In other words, globalization is a huge factor that the authors of the paper don't seem to…
Comment linking /2011/02/great-stagnation-and-total-factor.html
on “IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf]”Submitted Do Air Conditioners Explain the Rise of the South? Probably Not as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt has been argued that the current environment of low rates is driven by a safe asset shortage [0]. Many investors (e.g. insurance companies, pension funds) need to match liabilities with assets yielding reliable returns. With a constrained supply of safe assets, this demand drives yields down. Austrian economists argue that the resulting level of interest rates may be artificially low, leading to 'malinvestment' […
Comment linking /2010/01/academic-vs-wall-street-economists.html
on “Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO”Submitted The Gold Standard Was an Accident of History as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> while growth in US bureaucracy comes during a time in continued GROWTH in productivity, not decline. A growth which has massively slowed. That it hasn't actually been outright negative is cold comfort. Look at total factor productivity in the US: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-stagnat... (Notice all the supporting citations to other productivity measures in the comments.)
Comment linking /2011/02/great-stagnation-and-total-factor.html
on “Extreme concentration of wealth in US economy has led to central planning”Submitted Employment change in the US by Industry as a story · 1 points
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