Keyword: recession

Cardboard Box Index (1/21/2010)

The order for cardboard boxes is a reliable indicator of the business cycles.

Keywords: business cycles, cardboard boxes, recession

Domestic Content (5/13/2010)

Economic stimulus might end up stimulating foreign economies more than the domestic economy when the US is so dependent on imports.

Keywords: bullet train, Buy American, credit crunch, domestic content, expenditure multiplier, fiscal policy, recession, Stimulus, wind farm

Jobless Safety Net (5/13/2010)

Jobless benefits cushion the fall of disposable income during economic recessions.

Keywords: Automatic stabilizer, budget deficit, food stamp, income tax credit, income tax rate, jobless benefits, progressive income tax, recession, unemployment benefits

Savers, Suckers? (5/12/2010)

Savers are collateral damage in the Fed’s attempt to resuscitate a comatose economy during the Great Recession.

Keywords: bailout, borrowers, CD, certificates of deposit, FDIC, Fed funds rates, housing bubble, interest rate, money market funds, mortgage, quantitative easing, recession, savers, Saving, spenders, the Fed, Treasury bonds, yield

Spending Multiplier (11/2/2011)

Spending multiplier in the absence of crowding-out effect.

Keywords: income multiplier, marginal propensity to save, recession, spending multiplier, stimulus