economist

Sometimes, trying to get your arms around a gigantic number (for example, the area of earth covered by land) just takes time. (…)

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the youngest governor in Alaskan history — and — the first woman governor of Alaska. (…)

There was an article distributed nationwide, written by the Associated Press, and carried locally in the Asbury Park Press on March 22, 2008. (…)

I've labeled this “the yikes spiral” because typically this happens when certain markets are in free fall. (…)

I'm not an economist (thank goodness!), but it's just my opinion that episodes like what happened in 1998 (and even in 2001 and in 2002) — when the Fed stepped in and changed interest rates — were more situations of market "liquidity" issues. (…)