▽Calculated Risk ●01/05 03:04 Saturday, January 04, 2025Schedule for Week of January 5, 2024by Calculated Risk on 1/04/2025 08:11:00 AMThe key report this week is the December employment report on Friday.Other key indicators include the November Trade Deficit and November Job Openings.----- Monday, January 6th -----No major economic releases scheduled.----- Tuesday, January 7th -----8:30 AM: Trade Balance report for No
▽Opinion - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com ●01/05 02:07 How to Have Good IdeasSarah Stein Greenberg runs Stanford’s d.school, which teaches design as a mode of problem solving. She and Steve talk about what makes her field different from other academic disciplines, how to approach hard problems, and why brainstorms are so annoying.Pistachios (Replay)How did a little green nut become a billion-dollar product, lauded by celebrities in Super Bowl ads?
▽Greg Mankiw’s Blog ●12/29 14:48 Saturday, December 28, 2024The Case for More H1B VisasApparently, there is an ongoing debate in Trumpworld about whether more H1B visas are a good thing. From an economic perspective, the answer is a clear yes.From the standpoint of economic efficiency, allowing a highly skilled immigrant to work at a U.S. firm is, for standard reasons, beneficial. The transaction is voluntary, so both the empl
