BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1996
RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index fell 0.1 percent in
November. The decrease was attributable to dips in both petroleum and
nonpetroleum prices. The U.S. Export Price Index, paced by the
continued decrease in agricultural prices, fell
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1996:
President Clinton selects Alexis M. Herman, White House director of
public liaison and a former social worker, as his choce for Secretary
of Labor in the Administration's second term. The Herman nomination
follows intense infighting among key
Early December seven female south Korean university students filed a
complaint against the police for sexual molestation. The students
held a press conference at a female rights organization office in
Chung-gu, Seoul. They declared that it was their hope that by
daring to go public it would
why did Robert J. Gordon sign on to the cause of revising the CPI?
(1) he's been in favor of revising it for _years_. Just look at old
editions of his intermediate MACROECONOMICS book! He's been advocating the
replacement of the CPI by the implicit Consumer Expenditure deflator of the
NIPA.
Mark, I would like to talk with you about writing an article for DS
sometime. Are you interested? You can reply by Email or phone, 617-
628-8411. Marc Breslow, Dollars and Sense (out of town 12/26-1/6/97).
Trond writes:
My point is that while mainsteram economists
in most countries have to explain to the public that the gvt. "cannot"
run a deficit, they in Norway have the much more tricky task to explain
that the gvt. HAS TO run an extremely large SURPLUS. And this in a
situation
Does anybody have a good feel for the history of the cpi struggle? I
remember during the early Reagan years, the administration was arguing
that housing prices were overestimated because the price of rents was not
increasing as fast as the price of houses.
Was that the first salvo? Hasn't
There may be no free lunch for economists, but there is a free breakfast at
the ASSA meetings. Okay, so it's kinda early, but you get to hear Dean Baker
blab about the CPI.
Actually it's a pretty interesting story, despite the hour and the
technicalities of double counting, etc. Dean
Ken Hanly says to me
Recently Trond Andresen wrote:
Among several things, we discuss the extreme gvt. surplus in the current
Norwegian economy, and how the economics profession in Norway now is at
work to explain that this money may not be used for the public good in
Norway, but must be
BLS DAILY LABOR REPORT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1996:
Today's News Release: "BLS Reports on the Amount of Formal and
Informal Training Received by Employees" says that employees who work
in establishments with 50 or more workers received an average of 44.5
hours of training in the period
On 23 Dec 96 at 9:01, Michael Perelman wrote:
Does anybody have a good feel for the history of the cpi struggle? I
remember during the early Reagan years, the administration was arguing
that housing prices were overestimated because the price of rents was not
increasing as fast as the price
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