cons_news#

  • Series: lecture-dp

  • File: lectures/cons_news.md

  • Audit date: 2026-05-28

  • Categories audited: writing, math, code, jax, figures, references, links, admonitions

  • Overall score: 6.2 / 10

  • Priority: HIGH

Score breakdown#

Category

Score

One-line note

Writing

7/10

Sentence-case headings; multiple i.i.d. uses.

Math

7/10

\mathbb E_t may need braces; otherwise clean.

Code

8/10

Unicode Greek; pip install at top; PEP8; no figsize.

JAX

out of scope

not a JAX lecture.

Figures

5/10

Four plt.title(...) calls — embedded matplotlib titles.

References

7/10

“Eric Leeper, Todd Walker, and Susan Yang {cite}…” — should be {cite:t}; 2 occurrences.

Links

3/10

Seven raw markdown links to python-intro.quantecon.org.

Admonitions

N/A

No exercises / proofs.

Issues#

Critical#

None found.

High severity#

  • [qe-link-002] — Seven raw markdown links to python-intro.quantecon.org/perm_income_cons.html and python-intro.quantecon.org/kalman.html. Lines: 36, 56, 86, 412, 486, 498, 501. Should be {doc} intersphinx references.

Medium severity#

  • [qe-writing-009 (proposed)] — i.i.d. used in narrative. Lines: 127, 146, 149, 481. Count: 4.

  • [qe-fig-003] — Four plt.title(...) calls embedding matplotlib titles. Lines: 747, 767, 801, 810.

  • [qe-ref-001] — Two narrative-author {cite} patterns (“Eric Leeper, Todd Walker, and Susan Yang ”). Should be {cite:t}.

Low severity#

  • [qe-writing-001] — Several multi-sentence paragraphs (e.g. 42-45, 51-67).

  • [qe-writing-009 (proposed)] — Right curly apostrophes ’ in narrative.

Strengths#

  • Lecture title in correct Title Case.

  • All H2/H3 headings sentence case.

  • Matrices use bmatrix (9 matrix blocks).

  • Definitions bolded (“discount factor”, “interest rate”, “news”, “information shocks”, “Ricardian equivalence”, “innovations representation”, “covariance generating function”).

  • Equation labels (eqn_1, eqn_2, eqn_3) and {eq} references used cleanly.

  • No \tag, no align-inside-$$, no bold vectors, no \mathcal N for distribution.

  • pip install at top; Unicode Greek in code; no figsize.