A couple of interesting blog entries from Ray Fair.
The Future of Macro, August 26, 2015
LA Times op ed on the 2016 election, May 27, 2015
In the first piece, Fair admits to presenting a macro modeling strategy just as it was going out of fashion, continuing to use it in the decades since then, and recommending that its use spread. There are also useful links there to the recent debate. It’s an issue that promises to continue in the forefront of both scholarly and popular remark.
The second piece is about his work on a variety of (mostly) time-series topics, put into book form a while back: Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things (pdf version). It’s interesting, too, to find a Yale professor’s op ed as far to the South(ern California) West as L.A.