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Capital Goods and Capital

There is an impulse inwrought in all living beings that directs them toward the assimilation of matter that preserves, renews, and strengthens their vital energy. The eminence of acting man is manifested in the fact that he consciously and purposefully aims at maintaining and enhancing his vitality

Decentralized Fed is best

The Federal Reserve is consolidating check-processing operations into a few sites. This is good management, but begs the broader question of whether we really need 12 separate Federal Reserve districts.

Economics, morals both factor into regulations

Monday's tragic apartment fire in St. Paul highlights an ongoing debate about what government should regulate. The fire started in a house subdivided into five apartments.

Economics, morals both factor into regulations

Monday's tragic apartment fire in St. Paul highlights an ongoing debate about what government should regulate. The fire started in a house subdivided into five apartments. Seven people out of the 20 or more people living in the house were injured, five critically.

Government's net worth hard to figure

We tabulate our national debt to the penny but we never add up the nation's assets. That understandably causes confusion. Take this reader, who recently asked, "I hear the United States called the world's richest nation. How can that be when the federal government owes so much money?"

Liquor-law reports sobering

A recent report by the Legislative Auditor's Office makes clear that Minnesotans pay more for booze than necessary. It is not clear that this is bad for society as a whole, but it does raise the questions of who benefits and if policy changes are needed.

Lumber-aid ideas revive new debate

Minnesota's forest products industries are in a slump. Companies that produce lumber, oriented-strand board and other building materials are particularly hard hit by the sharp decline in new-home construction nationwide. Many have cut back production, and some are closing, at least temporarily, and letting workers go.

MİKROEKONOMİ ve MAKROEKONOMİ

MİKROEKONOMİ ve MAKROEKONOMİ

Petrodollar recycling is still a challenge

Despite huge increases in money flowing to oil-exporting nations, you seldom hear the word "petrodollar" anymore. Perhaps buzz words eventually just fall out of use.

Petrodollar recycling is still a challenge

Despite huge increases in money flowing to oil-exporting nations, you seldom hear the word "petrodollar" anymore

Politicians overstate their effect on economy

An observant friend asks a good question: "Gov. Tim Pawlenty has taken over the task of announcing job numbers in recent months. Is a voter to conclude that the gains are his doing?

Supply-demand effects vary by market

News on the front page of Tuesday's business section offered a classic demonstration of how markets for different goods respond differently to changes in demand or supply.

Underlying ills intensify subprime peril

Subprime mortgages are the Balkans of the U.S. economy. Nineteenth-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck famously predicted that the next great European war would stem from "some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

Underlying ills intensify subprime peril

Subprime mortgages are the Balkans of the U.S. economy. Nineteenth-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck famously predicted that the next great European war would stem from "some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

A billion here, a billion there...what does it all mean?

U.S. Army Gen. Peter Schoomaker's recent claim that the 2007 defense budget equals what Americans spend on "plastic Santa Clauses and tinsel" made me mutter, "Is this guy stupid or dishonest?"

A stronger Euro and concerns about excessive real appreciation and competitiveness loss in the Euroz

While Germany will also eventually suffer from a stronger Euro it has the benefit of having experienced in the last few years a real depreciation as unit labor cost have been kept in check via low nominal wage growth and good productivity growth.

ABCs of the CPI and PPI

An eagle-eyed reader caught a mistake in my column last Thursday, gently suggesting that price indexes apparently must be confusing even to experienced economists, let alone laypeople.

Aggregate Supply

Having looked at the components of aggregate demand, we now turn to the supply-side of the economy.

Aggregate Supply

Defining aggregate supply

Agricultural Price Supports

Most governments around the world intervene actively in the operation of their agricultural markets.

Agricultural Price Supports

Most governments around the world intervene actively in the operation of their agricultural markets. The ways they intervene and the reasons they do so depend in large part on the wealth of the country.

Aid military members who need it most

Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants to take $15,000 from Minnesota taxpayers and give it to me. That is darned nice of him, but the Legislature should think this through carefully before they OK it.

Airline Deregulation

he United States Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 was a dramatic event in the history of economic policy. It was the first thorough dismantling of a comprehensive system of government control since the Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Act unconstitutional in 1935.

Balance of Payments

The balance of payments provides us with important information about whether or not a country is “paying its way” in the international economy.

Bankruptcy laws must balance creditors, debots and society

Changes in U.S. bankruptcy law are wending their way through Congress in what has been an off-again, on-again process for the last three years

Be judicious in applying housing data

Houses are not canned tuna. Remember that when reading about housing prices.

Be judicious in applying housing data

Houses are not canned tuna. Remember that when reading about housing prices.

Bilgi, Regülasyon Ve Rekabet:Bir Piyasa Süreci Yaklaşımı

Piyasanın regülasyonu meselesi 1970li yılların başında ekonomi literatürü içerisinde kendisine bir yer bulmaya başladı. Sam Peltzman, Richard Posner ve George Stigler’in ilk temellerini attıkları bu teori artık sadece Chicago iktisatçılarının çalıştığı bir alan olmanın dışına çıkmıştır.

BÖLÜŞÜM İLİŞKİLERİ VE BU İLİŞKİLERİN DÜZENLENMESİNDE ETKİLİ OLABİLECEK İKTİSAT POLİTİKALARININ DEĞER

Bölüşüm, tarih boyunca önemini yitirmemiş, sürekli gündemde kalmış bir konudur. Bu önem, sanayileşme süreciyle birlikte ortaya çıkan ekonomik temele dayalı sınıflı toplum yapısının, bölüşüm ilişkilerine yeni bir içerik kazandırmasına bağlı olarak, iktisat biliminin üzerinde en çok tartışılan alanı olmuştur.

Bonds

Bond markets are important components of capital markets. Bonds are fixed-income securities—securities that promise the holder a specified set of payments.

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