Warren Buffett, New York Times on November 25th 2012:Suppose that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an...
Truth stranger than fiction?
From the New York Times. I checked, it really is not from the Onion. WASHINGTON — House Republicans said on Thursday...
Experimental evidence on the effect of taxes
Much of our “fiscal cliff” debate revolves around the incentive effects of raising marginal taxes on high incomes. High...
Taxes and cliffs
(Update: John Batchelor show radio interview on this blog post)The whole tax debate is supremely frustrating to anyone who...
Happy Thanksgiving
By Eric Cochrane (who also drew the grumpy economist). More h...
Health economics update
Russ Roberts did a podcast with me in his “EconTalk” series, on my “After the ACA” article. Russ also put together a really...
Debt Maturity
Another essay, a bit shorter this time, on maturity structure of US debt. I was asked to give comments on a paper...
Bloomberg TV interview
A short interview with Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu on the fiscal cliff. No big news for readers of this blog, but maybe...
Gas price contest
As all of you know, New York and New Jersey are having huge gas lines in the wake (still) of hurricane Sandy. Both are enforcing...
Diversity in academia
99 percent of donors from Princeton gave to Obama, reports the Daily Princetonian, 157 to 2. Princeton’s one-percenters...
Dodd-Frank and Stigler's Ghost
The New York Times finally published Gretchen Morgenson’s article, pointing out that Dodd-Frank enshrines rather...
Predictions
I did a short spot on NPR’s Marketplace this morning (also here). The announced topic was what I thought would happen to...
DeMuth on Obamacare
Christopher DeMuth has a nice Oped in the Wall Street Journal. Thesis: Obamacare is the big question for the election.He...
Why the electoral college is a great idea
With the election looming, we see the quadrennial complaining about the electoral college. “The electoral college effectively...
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