Course Links
Chapter 2
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
Economic Data Calendar
Wall Street's Hottest Address? K Street
GDP to Get Bigger, Not Necessarily Faster
Planet Money, The Friday Podcast: The Price Of Lettuce In Brooklyn
The Billion Prices Project @ MIT
Data Docs - Unemployment and Employment Data video
GDP vs. GDI as a measure of the size of the economy
Sizing Up Black Markets and Red-Light Districts for G.D.P.
Data Docs - Unemployment and Employment Data video
How Ryan Went Wrong on Spending and Growth (illustrates thinking about crowding out of investment)
Chapter 4
All monies are commodity monies
Why Kyle Bass Acquired $1 Million Worth Of Nickels
The Case of the Missing Currency
Chapter 5
"Inflation is not magic." About inflation as a tool to combat nominal wage rigidities.
Be Ready To Mint That Coin
The Exaggerated Death of Inflation
Chapter 6
The Big Mac index
The Fed's decision to hold rates in September 2015 affected by international conditions
Chapter 7
[url=]Economics of College Education (tangential to our study of the labor market, but relevant to you all)[/url]
Planet Money Episode 485: What's Your Major?
NY Fed Blog: The Value of a College Degree
NY Fed Blog: Staying in College Longer Than Four Years Costs More Than You Might Think
NY Fed Blog: College May Not Pay Off for Everyone
NY Fed Blog: Are the Job Prospects of Recent College Graduates Improving?
Only 150 of 3500 U.S. Colleges Are Worth the Investment: Former Secretary of Education
2013 College Education ROI Rankings
Beyond the College Rankings: A Value-Added Approach to Assessing Two- and Four-Year Schools
Planet Money Podcast: Germany's Painful Solution To High Unemployment
Chapter 8
CIA World Factbook
Measuring Economic Growth From Outer Space
Solow Growth Model in Excel
The Secret History of the Dismal Science. Part I. Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th Century
Chapter 10
NBER Business Cycle Dates
The Recession and Recovery in Perspective
It’s the Aggregate Demand, Stupid
Chapter 11
Obama Gives Keynes His First Real-World Test
"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Chapter 12
Angus Deaton wins the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics
Fiscal Policy Using the Quantity Theory
IS-LM in the NY Times
A lot of bucks, but how much bang?
22 of 40 largest one day drops in S&P 500 occurred from 2008-2011
The Great Recession versus the Great Depression (Krugman)
Chapter 13
Khan Academy: Speculative Attack on a Currency
How complex are international corporate structures?
Economic Performance Since the Introduction of the Euro
Chapter 16
Why Millennials Are Ditching Cars And Redefining Ownership
Press Release for Milton Friedman's Nobel Prize in Economics (1976)
Press Release for James Tobin's Nobel Prize in Economics (1981)
Press Release for Franco Modigliani's Nobel Prize in Economics (1985)
Mastrobuoni and Weinberg (2009) on intra-monthly consumption smoothing
Chapter 17
Frontline: The Retirement Gamble
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Can the stock market save millennials?
Twitter IPO - Nov. 7, 2013
Actively managed mutual funds fall short again — and investors notice
2013 Nobel Price in Economics awarded for research on asset pricing
Largest Tax Expenditures - see several for owner occupied homes
How complex are corporate structures?
Chapter 18
The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
Macroeconomic model comparisons and forecast competitions
Can you say "rent-seeking?"
Corporate lobbying, political connections, and the bailout of banks
Joch Cochrane on Charles Plosser on discretionary monetary policy
House passes bill calling for rule-based monetary policy
Chapter 19
Why Wall Street cares a lot about Argentina's elections
Federal Government Debt Clock
GAO Federal Debt Basics
Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?
What is Generational Accounting?


Problem Sets
Problem Set #1
Problem Set #1 Solutions
Problem Set #2
Problem Set #2 Solutions
PS#2 Unemp Spreadsheet
Problem Set #3
Problem Set #3 Solutions
Problem Set #4
Problem Set #4 Solutions
Problem Set #5


Class Notes
Chapters 1 and 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19


Exam Solutions
Midterm 1 Solutions
Midterm 2 Solutions