Information Transfer Economics

Tyler Cowen pointed back to this  (on the paradox of no market response) today: Most generally, it seems the initial price move, in ...

Roger Farmer has a picture of QE overlaid with 1-year market inflation expectations (shown above). Something looked very familiar . I ...

Paul Krugman mentions Eurozone lowflation today ... So how’s [the Eurozone] going? Terribly. Despite QE, euro area core inflation is stuc...

Source: wikimedia commons . I was asked by a commenter to come up with a good intuitive metaphor for information equilibrium -- somet...

Source: wikimedia commons . Will the Fed raise rates or keep them where they are (actually keep a 0.25% ceiling )? Who knows? Tim ...

Mark Thoma links us to this at the WSJ : If consumers believe that inflation will remain high, they tend to save and not buy goods and se...

There were a couple of posts in my feed recently that make some references to physics, and as the econoblogosphere's resident Phd physi...

Scott Sumner shows a graph of year over year NGDP growth alongside a graph of the year over year growth of the monetary base. Here's ...

From NPR's Planet Money . Richard Thaler has an article up where he discusses the Keynesian beauty contest. He does the test tha...

Alternate universes ... [ reference ] A couple of days ago, I did an update to this post on Dani Rodrik's new book and his view th...