Grisly news today from the Federal Reserve’s July survey of senior bank loan officers. Loan-writing standards are tighter across the board, but especially for prime mortgages (74% of banks reported tighter standards, compared to 62% in the April survey), and credit card loans (67% of banks reported tighter standards, compared to 32% in the April [...]
My colleague Jim Poniewozik’s epic post about why he didn’t write about the John Edwards affair sooner got me to thinking about a story I haven’t yet shepherded into print—the rent-ratio heat maps at Hotpads.com. Okay, not exactly equivalent, but I wanted an excuse to mention Jim’s amazing post, which was eye-opening even to someone [...]
I couldn’t help but notice over the weekend that there are some people in China playing some games. But what, I found myself asking, will it all mean for GDP? Brad Humphreys, a professor of economics at the University of Alberta, who co-authors a blog about the economics of sports, sheds some light on that [...]
