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Trade
Page One Economics explains the often-misunderstood trade deficit.
Inflation
From Economic Synopses: How fast are prices rising? It depends on what you’re buying.
The Basics of Stocks and Bonds
From Page One Economics: A primer on financing business and public projects.
Lemons and Cherries
From Page One Economics: What’s the right amount of research before buying a used car? Learn more about asymmetric information, adverse selection, and moral hazard.
The Housing Market Can Affect Jobs
From Economic Synopses: Areas with large declines in house values also had large declines in employment.
Capital Changes in China
From Economic Synopses: Relatively speaking, the U.S. pays less to borrow and China earns less from lending. New Chinese policies may change that.
On Fiscal Policy
Economic Synopses describes why deficits are expected to persist and debt is projected to grow.
Homer Jones Memorial Lecture
Lawrence H. Summers gave the 2016 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture on “Secular Stagnation and Monetary Policy.”
Smart Cards
From Page One Economics: New and improved smart credit cards provide greater security.
Making Sense of Unemployment Data
Employed, unemployed, discouraged? In or out of the labor force? Frictional, structural, cyclical? Page One Economics provides the answers.
