Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Blogging will be light this week

We're going skiing with the family, in what I hope becomes an annual tradition. And in the meantime, if the sequester hits, I won't be worried at all. It's only a very small portion of total government spending, which is already way too big. A little austerity on the spending side is overdue: way past time for the federal government to tighten its belt. The rest of the country has been doing that for years now.

6 comments:

  1. I am all for the sequester cuts, which are a good down payment toward the overall 40% cuts needed to balance the Federal budget.

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  2. Looking forward your post of a 360 degree panoramic photo from the slopes...

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  3. So true.

    I'm one of the people who thinks the military cuts are especially overdue.

    Now if we could just hack away at Medicare Part D.

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  4. Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank’s updated estimate of 10-year expected inflation: only 1.53%

    From Dr. Perry.

    Inflation?

    The real risk now is zero bound.

    Stay tuned...

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  5. "The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) was
    unchanged in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau
    of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all
    items index increased 1.6 percent before seasonal adjustment."

    This is a microscopic rate of inflation; and if right-wingers Don Boudreaux and Carpe Diem Perry are correct, the CPI actually overstates inflation.

    Where is the inflation that so worried some observers?

    Instead I am seeing perma-ZLB sitting up shop....

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