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Krugman on stimulus

Krugman on stimulus

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I usually don’t respond to Paul Krugman’s blog posts. But last week he wrote about Stimulus and Ricardian Equivalence. The...
The Fed's Mission Impossible

The Fed's Mission Impossible

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A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed  reviewing the latest  Fed’s proposal (press release) to regulate big banks – and,...
Health economics by anecdote

Health economics by anecdote

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In a big-think post  “Is capitalism sustainable” on Project Syndicate, Ken Rogoff put in this little zingerA third...
All the world's troubles in 10 minutes

All the world's troubles in 10 minutes

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Last month, John Taylor asked me to give some  lunch-time remarks at a conference on “Restoring Economic Growth” at...
How to destroy the middle class

How to destroy the middle class

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In a splendid recent editorial piece, The New York Times  distilled every bad idea floating around the liberal policy...
A continent of bad ideas

A continent of bad ideas

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Why does noone see that Europe can have a nice currency union without fiscal union? I tried to put together this and some...
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