Mark Perry
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Dr. Mark J. Perry is a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University in Washington, D.C. In addition, he holds an MBA degree in finance from the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Since 1997, Professor Perry has been a member of the Board of Scholars for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonpartisan research and public policy institute in Michigan. Website: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/ |
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August 29, 2008 -
According to the study “The Distribution of Ownership of U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Companies,” authored by Robert J. Shapiro and Nam D. Pham [...]
August 28, 2008 -
Real GDP exceed consensus expectations and grew at an annual rate of 3.3% in the second quarter 2008 (see chart above), a significant upward [...]
August 28, 2008 - Obama thinks government is not getting a “reasonable share” of oil companies’ profits, which in 2007 were, as a percentage of revenue (8.3%), below those [...]
August 27, 2008 -
The map above (click to enlarge) is from the latest housing report from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), showing the “Four-Quarter Price [...]
August 25, 2008 -
Tyler Cowen writes in Sunday’s NY Times:
A bursting real estate bubble set off the Japanese recession of the 1990s, which deepened as ailing banks [...]
August 25, 2008 -
Brian Wesbury in the WSJ last week: “The most painful and frustrating economic policy blunder of the past 50 years was the Great Inflation of [...]
August 22, 2008 -
In a comment Thomas Blair said: “The way CPI is calculated has changed, which makes comparisons between eras or even years irrelevant.”
An anonymous commenter writes [...]
August 22, 2008 -
Some of the recent CD discussion has focused on the possible difficulties of comparing today’s inflation rates to the inflationary 1970s period because of the [...]
August 21, 2008 -
The chart above shows annual inflation since 1973, calculated from the BEA’s monthly personal consumption expenditures price index, less food and energy (data here), [...]
August 21, 2008 -
Brian Wesbury asks: “How can monetary base growth slow for seven straight years without pushing inflation down? If you agree with Friedman, it should have [...]
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