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There Is No Equality Without Economic Freedom

The promise of freedom without responsibility is, in reality, slavery without escape. We think we do what we want when, in reality, we do what we are told.

4 years

Interview with Emi Nakamura: Price Dynamics, Monetary and Fiscal, and COVID-19 Adjustments

Douglas Clement at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve offers one of his characteristically excellent interviews, this one with Emi Nakamura, titled "On price dynamics, monetary policy, and this `scary moment in history'” (May 6, 2020, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis). Here are a few of Nakamura's comments that caught my eye, but there's much more in the full interview.

4 years

What Do We Know about Progress Toward a COVID-19 Vaccine?

There seem to me a few salient facts about the search for a COVID-19 vaccine.

4 years

A Century of Suffrage for American Women

In August 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution became law when it was ratified by the state of Tennessee.

4 years

Is The Stock Market Cheaper After The Crash?

If we want to understand whether the recent bounce is a true buying opportunity we need to believe that stocks are cheaper.

4 years

Evolving Choices about Easing the Shutdown

I'll just say up front that the question of exactly when to ease the stay-at-home orders and shutdown in response to the coronavirus is a hard one, and I don't have a firm answer. But here's a framework for thinking through the tradeoffs.

4 years

Florence Nightingale: Innovator in Statistics and Data Presentation

I learned as a child about Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) as the founder of the modern profession of nursing and probably the single person who did the most to make it socially acceptable for women from middle - and upper-class background to become nurses. Her name became eponymous: referring to someone as "Florence Nightingale" was a way of saying that the person was a perfect nurse.

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