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Matthew C. Klein
Personal blog · theovershoot.coeconomics
Matthew C. Klein writes The Overshoot, a personal blog at theovershoot.co about economics. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matthew C. Klein's economics posts on inflation, wages, prices and household savings. One comment cites his excess-savings analysis and the FRED savings-rate data to rebut a claim about workers' pay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Making sense of the global economy and financial markets. Click to read The Overshoot, by Matthew C. Klein,
Most-linked posts?
- Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-01
What Hacker News says?
Yes, that’s the danger of relying on anecdotes. You see that price go up and it’s easy to react emotionally and think it’ll be like that forever, but you probably won’t have anywhere near as strong a reaction when prices recover as they have in many cases over the last year. When professionals study this and release their analysis of the causes, it doesn’t have the same impact as that sticker shock did, either, beca…
Comment linking /p/understanding-covid-flation
on “Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts”Submitted Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks as a story · 146 points
HN discussionYou’re wrong. Excess savings is still elevated far above pre-pandemic trends. https://theovershoot.co/p/americas-excess-household-savings You’re likely referencing the savings rate, which is a different concept. This measures how much of newly earned income is saved, not how much excess savings somebody has in an absolute sense. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT Aside from savings, household credit is still…
Comment linking /p/americas-excess-household-savings
on “Workers’ Pay Globally Hasn’t Kept Up with Inflation”Submitted Russia Prepared to Withstand Sanctions. Why Wasn't Europe Prepared? as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Should We Do About Inflation? (Part 2) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on the Bank Bailouts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wages, Prices, and Taming U.S. Inflation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside the BTFP Subsidy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Central Banks as a story · 1 points
HN discussion