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*I am now posting a daily column at Macrobusiness under the alias Rumplestatskin. This post first appeared at Macrobusiness on 18 Nov 2011....

Two observations today.  The first is the graph below showing the median houshold income in the US since 2000 (ht. Felix Salmon ).  Suprisin...

Within 24 hours of the Victorian Coroner’s Prevention Unit releasing a background report into infant deaths from co-sleeping (parents sh...

The  great Australian retail adjustment  is happening now at a store near you. Myer Managing Director Bernie Brookes recently announced t...

Recent discussions about the CPI have brushed over a key change that occurred in the construction of the index in 1998. In its 13th Series ...

Fungibility  is a feature of a good where two items of that good are so close in their features that they equal substitutes.  Currency is t...

*I am now posting as a regular contributor at Macrobusiness under the alias Rumplestatskin.  I will be posting copies of posts at both web...

*I am now posting as a regular contributor at Macrobusiness under the alias Rumplestatskin.  I will be posting copies of posts at both webs...

While the RBA has warned of the risks of leveraging into the housing market on national television, they, and other analysts, have also pre...

I have been meaning to write about using quarantine as a barrier to trade since Queensland’s banana crop was destroyed by cyclone Yasi last...