The G7 G20 Leader's statement, number 20., regarding the IMF's mission and governance (bold font by yours truly):The IMF should continue to strengthen its capacity to help its members...

Not only was the employment report disappointing, but previously reported encouraging leading indicators of employment were revised away. Most importantly, hours worked...

The current line of attack on Health Care reform from Republicans is that it proposes to Rob Gramma to Pay Pedro. I am not going to address the care for illegals canard today but do...

Well at least the stock market seems to like Obama's economic package. But every day I listen to CNBC analysts and others who seem to believe they did better under Bush's and want to...

The right is having a lot of fun commenting about the economic forecast by the Obama team being too optimistic. I guess they are right, Obama along with everyone else has massively...

By Spencer, Third quarter nonfarm productivity rose at a 9.5% annual rate as output rose 4.0% and hours worked fell at a 5.0% rate. Historically, productivity has been a very good leading indicator of real GDP growth lagged two...

Rdan Steve Waldman at Interfluidity has written an impression of The financial blogger meeting with senior Treasury officials of last Monday. He also provides links to other main posts by those who attended. It is worth a visit.

by Bruce Webb Last evening the CBO Director Blog announced the release of a score of the Boehner amendment: A Preliminary Analysis of a Substitute Amendment to H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The results are not impressive: (as...

Rdan The National Academy of Social Insurance report on options for Social Security is public and now available in pdf form. "The purpose of this report is to help analysts and policymakers consider options to bring Social Security into long-term...

Common Sense Health Care Reform and Affordability Act Haven't begun to read it. And somehow it is in a format that doesn't allow cutting and pasting the text. So I am just throwing this out to the floor for open discussion in comments.