Bill Mitchell | Billy blog
Macroeconomic research, teaching and advocacy
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The Weekend Quiz – September 25-26, 2021 – answers and discussion
Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three!... -
The Weekend Quiz – September 25-26, 2021
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the... -
Go Dees!
Victorians (those from the State of) tend to like – Australian Rules Football – which is our eccentric own code that developed in... -
Job vacancies rising in Britain in mostly below-average pay sectors
Part of my working day is spent updating databases and studying the additional observations. I learn a lot that way about trends and how far off the... -
Zero-hour contracts in the UK are an affront to progress
It’s Wednesday and so not much blog writing today. I have a few writing commitments to finalise in the coming few weeks and I need some time... -
ECB researchers find fiscal policy is very effective and more so if central banks buy up the debt
The ECB published a Working Paper recently (September 2021) – Monetary and fiscal complementarity in the Covid-19 pandemic – which... -
They never wrote about it, talked about it, and, did quite the opposite – yet they knew it all along!
During the GFC, a new phenomenon emerged – the ‘We knew it all along’ syndrome, which was characterised my several mainstream New... -
The Weekend Quiz – September 18-19, 2021 – answers and discussion
Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three!... -
The Weekend Quiz – September 18-19, 2021
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the... -
Australian labour market in dire straits
At present, the pandemic is causing massive fluctuations in the labour force aggregates to the point that it is very difficult to know more than...