DURING his latest confirmation grilling, Ben Bernanke was asked about deficit reduction strategies. He replied colourfully:
Citing legendary [...]
DURING his latest confirmation grilling, Ben Bernanke was asked about deficit reduction strategies. He replied colourfully:
Citing legendary [...]
AMERICA’S national debt has been keeping me up nights. I don’t worry so much about the deficit we are running [...]
TODAY'S criticism of the Fed has been outsourced to Stephen Colbert:
His complaints are funnier than mine.
[...]A BIG hat tip to my colleague at Democracy in America for highlighting this factoid, from Spencer Ackerman:
According to Gen. [...]
I DO understand the economic and environmental case for carbon tariffs. It's pretty clear. One country adopts an efficiency enhancing carbon [...]
SmartPlanet is a fairly level headed journalist’s blog, but definitely one oriented towards the environmentalist’s default positions. Here’s an excerpt from today’s post:
So now what? Climate change needs a do-over on many fronts. First, the science has to be scrubbed. There’s enough doubt here to give folks serious [...]
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Author pic - I hate when I get ragged on for one of Tim's stupid posts Reblog - "Encourage your readers to share your content with their followers ... Reblogged content links directly back to your blog, driving traffic from your readers and their social networks. [...]TODAY'S recommended economics writing:
• Workers don't understand that increased health benefits mean lower wages. (Washington Post)
• What Michael Scott [...]
YOU might think that when pirates go shopping, they get the best deals. You'd be wrong:
When villagers think the price of a cosmetic [...]
MATT YGLESIAS draws attention to a session from The Economist's The World In conference, featuring House Minority Whip Eric Cantor. Our own Daniel Franklin responds [...]
CHRISTINA ROMER famously argued that the administration's proposed stimulus should be about $1.2 trillion in size, only to have the eventual number (between [...]
THE British government is embracing its populist side.
Alistair Darling will try to force a "permanent culture shift" in the City as [...]
PERHAPS you've noticed that being too-big-to-fail comes with some fairly significant benefits. Notably, you can't be allowed [...]
TODAY'S recommended economics writing:
Should public sector job creation be a focus of government policy? A debate. (New York Times)
The [...]
SUNDAY'S New York Times featured a Jared Diamond piece on the potential for business to be green, that is, to do more [...]
BEN BERNANKE, how is the economy looking these days?
Though we have begun to see some improvement in economic [...]
OLIVIER BLANCHARD and Marianna Riggi have good and bad news on the subject of oil prices and [...]
THE present labour market for young people is quite clearly the worst since the Second World War. The OECD has released a series of [...]
IN THIS week's print edition, I have a take on the Obama administration's mortgage modification programme, which reads:
[T]his effort may be [...]
EDUCATION reform used to be a testily partisan issue, with those on the left arguing for large funding increases and those on [...]
From Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Club Member Ted Gayer makes five points:
1. Either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program will result in substantially lower economic costs than command-and-control regulations that mandate technologies, fuels, or energy efficiency standards.
2. Given the uncertainty of the future costs of climate policy, a carbon tax is more [...]
esterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in [...]
Blogger extraordinaire Megan McArdle is this week’s guest on EconTalk talking about her debt and how she is escaping out from under it. We also get into the Great Depression. Of course.
[...]Matthew Kahn writes:
The Return of a Minor League Blogger: I twice had the chance to sit down and chat with Brad Delong. He was blogging so I didn't want to bug him but we had a chance to talk and I enjoyed it...
But I wasn't blogging! I was [...]
But sometimes it tells me things that man was really not meant to know.
Henry Farrell:
Crooked Timber: I’m a bit hesitant to link to this (as I’m not an elderly right wing economist, I’m worried I might be accused of “belittling the other”), but it’s super-duper awesome! Charles Rowley, [...]
