J. Bradford DeLong
Academic, Blogger, and Economist
How worried should we be about the deficit?There have been many posts on this topic lately, start with Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong if you need to catch up. Today I have a few simple points: 1. Even if "it is fine to borrow more" is the most likely scenario, it is not the only... In this article: Paul Krugman, Italy, Belgium, Climate change, Tyler Cowen, Brad DeLong, and Japan |
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Seeking Alpha | 3 days ago
What the U.S. Long Bond Market Is Telling Us
by: Brad DeLong November 22, 2009 | about: SPY Paul Krugman reads the tea leaves in what looks like the best piece of economic analysis I have read this month. When we do the things we do well, this is the kind of thing we do: Interest...
In this article: Paul Krugman, U.S., Balance sheet, Unemployment, and Brad DeLong
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U.S. Debt Hysteria Is Getting Ridiculous
by: The Baseline Scenario November 20, 2009 I don't spend a lot of time trying to police the economic news media - Dean Baker and Brad DeLong are much better on that - but I found myself reading a two-week-old Newsweek column by Robert...
In this article: ETFC, Robert Samuelson, Hyperinflation, Bankruptcy, FDIC, Japan, U.S., Unemployment, Newsweek, and Brad DeLong
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Matthew Yglesias - The Atlantic | 5 days ago
What The Fed Can Do
...asking what, exactly, the Fed can do and I didn't have a great explanation of the details for them. But the answer was well-put by Brad DeLong in a post from last week: Quantitative easing-pouring a whole bunch of cash in the system with the...
In this article: The Fed, Ben Bernanke, Brad DeLong, Inflation, Paul Krugman, Quantitative easing, and PayPal
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The Seattle Times | 7 days ago
Depression avoided? Not so fast
Read his regular column every other Sunday in the Seattle Times. Top of the News: The not-especially-bearish UC Berkeley economist Brad DeLong argues that the U.S. faces a 5 percent chance of a depression-causing shock -- and a paralyzed...
In this article: Brad DeLong, Washington, D.C., Derivative, Unemployment, Chaff, Seattle Times, and AIG
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Should the Federal Reserve Be Doing More?
...the money supply via increasing nonconventional purchases. The key is fundamentally changing inflation expectations. This fits with Brad DeLong's definition of quantitative easing: Quantitative easing policy is the altering of market...
In this article: The Fed, Inflation, Paul Krugman, Unemployment, Janet Yellen, and Recession
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The Big Money | November 13, 2009
Wonk Watch 11.13.09
We read the smarties so you don't have to. Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 - 6:18pm Brad DeLong tackles the future of the US budget and deficit, but doesn't place much faith in Congress for being able to manage it. He quotes Doug...
In this article: Corporate governance, Brad DeLong, and Christopher Dodd
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Marginal Revolution | November 12, 2009
Different rooftops
...out. I can not figure out how he comes to the conclusion that the cost will be well below $900billion given those answers. Shouldn't Brad DeLong be looking at that article and asking "why oh why can't we have a better press corp?" Posted...
In this article: Brad DeLong
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Wonk Watch 11.09.09
...Europe this decade. None of the success experienced in these areas, Krugman says, have been driven by international finance. Brad DeLong finds the decision about how to move forward and begin to repair the U.S. economy simple. He says,...
In this article: Paul Krugman, Bernie Sanders, Brad DeLong, Ronald Reagan, Unemployment, and Huffington Post
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Rolling Stone | November 06, 2009
10.2% Unemployment, 9.5% Productivity Surge
...productivity in the last quarter. This is the essence of a jobless recovery. The economics blogger Brad DeLong had a great post yesterday that I hope he'll forgive me quoting at length: Back in the 1930s there was a Polish Marxist...
In this article: Unemployment, Recession, Brad DeLong, and Capitalism
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ThinkProgress | November 06, 2009
Unemployment Hits 10 Percent - Are Tax Credits For Homebuyers And Seniors The Best We Can Do?
"We may be looking at very high levels," Baker said, "barring a policy response, for several years into the future. " So as Brad DeLong asked "if you had told everyone last election day what would happen, economically, in 2009, what...
In this article: Labor Department, Unemployment, Recession, Brad DeLong, Paul Krugman, and Barack Obama
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James Bradford DeLong (b. June 24 1960, Boston) commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
DeLong is co-editor of The Economists' Voice, and has in the past been co-editor of the widely read Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is also the author of a textbook, Macroeconomics, the second edition of which he coauthored with Martha Olney. He writes a monthly syndicated op-ed column for Project Syndicate.
As an official in the Treasury Department in the Clinton administration, he worked on the 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on other policies.
He writes a weblog, Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media; he also contributes to Shrillblog and maintains a political commentary site, Egregious Moderation.
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