Reform Sick Days?

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/home-sick-another-case-wherwork-incentives-matter/?hp

Social Security Reform?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/economy/28leonhardt.html?hp

Seattle Times Series - Washington Mutual Failure

Part 1: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010131911_wamu25.html

Part 2: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010136506_wamu26.html

Strange Collateral

Banking crisis in Russia: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aTYX6OihzZhw

Imperfectly Efficient Markets Hypothesis

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ac1KaPxa0Bso

Read with Care - What kind of survey is this?

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/26/news/economy/NABE/index.htm?postversion=2009102607

Small Business and Heath Care Costs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/business/smallbusiness/25health.html?hp

Japanese Debt

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/business/global/21yen.html?hp

Financial Crisis - Lehman Brothers

Here are excerpts from a new book about the Lehman collapse: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/business/economy/20sorkin.html?hp

GRETCHEN MORGENSON on Financial Regulation

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/business/economy/18gret.html?scp=1&sq=don't%20let%20exceptions%20kill%20the%20rule&st=cse

Deficit Hits $1.4 Trillion, Complicating Stimulus Plans

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/us/17deficit.html?hp

U.S. Budget Deficit

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aR_lnI_cZwvQ

Krugman on Leading Economic Indicators

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/leading-indicators-and-the-shape-of-the-recovery/

The Fed "Acting Tough"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/opinion/12krugman.html

Politics of Health Care Reform - Budget Implications

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/health/policy/11cost.html?_r=1&hp

Compare with my August 25, 2009 Post on "Bank Stress Tests and Deleveraging"

Small bank failure rate: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/business/economy/11banks.html?_r=1&hp

Projected California Budget Deficit

Bloomberg.com reports that there is expected to be a shortfall in the California budget in the current fiscal year: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahpLpu9sKLyY. The article mentions the bond market, and how California and other sub-national governmental units rely on bonds to finance a variety of public activities.

More Macroeconomics of Health Care Reform

From the Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4ad7dd70-b469-11de-bec8-00144feab49a.html

"Back to Business" - a new New York Times series

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/timestopics/series/back_to_business/index.html

Newly-released Federal Reserve Data - Graph it with FRED Graph!

Here is an article from the Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/37954360-b2d9-11de-b7d2-00144feab49a.html about US credit conditions. It would be interesting to see a graph based on some Federal Reserve Data that shows something interesting about changing household credit conditions.

Bank Run Big Time

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aMfETcYI2t7Y

Debt Markets and Regulation

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/economy/07shadow.html?hpw

Paul Krugman Answers Your Questions

See http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/krugman-responds-readers-questions/