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Rescue Plan as Viewed by Economists
Forget Congress for now, whatever emerges there is a compromise of the least objectionable ideas. I’m curious about how the intelligentsia views what is occurring. The most respected university in...
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Robbers Caught on [CSPAN] Video
I guess this is what lawyers call ‘evidence.’ It’s the equivalent of having a video of John Wilkes Booth sneaking through Ford’s Theater and having him stop to face the camera and slowly state his name...
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Auto Industry Bailout Debate
The chart comes by way of Greg Mankiw’s blog It’s fascinating to watch the auto industry bailout debate unfold. I have a natural aversion to arguments designed to pull at my heart strings, so if I see...
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What if They Don’t Know How to Fix This?
The ‘they’ in the post title are economists. While there always many schools of thought, the amazing thing about this current financial crisis is that we are truly in uncharted territory. Two of the...
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The Mismatch of the Century: Spin vs Video
Are you going to believe a bunch of grainy old videos taken on camera phones by the type of people who attend speeches and seminars about Health Care policy — which the White House does not denied...
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Blogging Economists: The No Clear Win Zone
Welcome to The Show: The Blogosphere in 2009 – the greatest economics discussion group that could possibly be imagined. As if the wealth of information available wasn’t enough, the Eco Gods threw in a...
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A Few Observations #2
Rich Lowry on why Obama passed on commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall: Obama famously made a speech in Berlin during last year’s campaign, but at an event devoted to celebrating himself as the...
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How Expensive Will The Nanny State Become?
One of the best blogging academic economists — Greg Mankiw — gives his perspective on the federal health care takeover: In the end, while I understood the arguments in favor of the bill, I could not...
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Offshore Money, Taxes And Obama Apologists
In the survival-of-the-fittest environment of blogging economists, a revealing story unfolded. What began as a practical lesson in corporate finance, ended up highlighting the hypocrisy of a key Obama...
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Try selling this as a recovery
Link from the Greg Mankiw blog. Tagged: Economics, economy, Greg Mankiw, greg mankiw blog
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