Paul Krugman tells the story of the Capitol Hill baby-sitting co-op as a means of introducing readers to the economics of recessions. This story, like many others in economics, is a wonderful teaching device in undergraduate courses. We take the story from where Krugman stops and develop it by...

This paper shows the behavior of different macroeconomic variables together in the same graphical space. The case study in this paper is the Chinese economy from the year 1979 to 2009. To visualize the behavior of large macroeconomic data graphically, we suggest the application of the...

This comment was prepared for the International Journal of Forecasting mini-symposium on the Soyer-Hogarth experiment. The experiment evaluates the ability of expert econometricians to make predictions based on commonly provided regression output. Visual displays of quantitative information,...