Barack Obama wants the banks to start lending again:
This is something I hear about from business owners and entrepreneurs across America — that despite their best efforts, they're unable to get loans.
I would love to see some empirical data on this, because I suspect that insofar as lending volumes' [...]
As we await the official word on November's employment situation, Joe B. tells Bloomberg the jobless rate should peak around 11%.
Meanwhile, Mark Z. discusses the jobs dilemma with NPR's On Point.
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|Peter Boettke|
Steve Horwitz is in town tonight and will guest lecture in my PhD course on Austrian Economics. We will be discussing the financial crisis and the relevance of Austrian economics for understanding our contemporary policy dilemmas.
Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok makes the case for Irving [...]
THE health care reform debate has produced plenty of interesting commentary on the economics of health care, but perhaps more interesting [...]
