Economics Archive
Krugman: Goldman Sachs Profits Are Bad For America
Krugman is relentless in his calls for increasing government involvement in the economy and regulation:
What’s clear is that Wall Street in general, Goldman very much included, benefited hugely from the government’s provision of a financial backstop ...
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WSJ Profiles The Increasingly Popular Economics Blogs
I never thought I'd be sitting up late at night reading what Ben Bernanke thinks, but now I do.
- Zina Poletz, a Minneapolis public relations executive who says she had little interest in economics prior ...
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Cash For Clunkers: More Bad Economics From Washington
The program will provide a much needed boost to the automobile industry.
- Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich)
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act ...
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Dumbass Ideas From Economists
May 7, 2009 · Category: Economics, Macro Economics
I just read two of the dumbest ideas ever about how to fix the economy by two academic economists, one from UCLA, the other from Harvard, in respected publications.
In a much discussed article in The ...
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Academic Economists Reckon With Their Cluelessness
January 12, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Economics
But if a doctor repeatedly deemed patients to be healthy that were soon found to have Stage Four cancer that was at least six years in the making, the doctor would be a likely candidate ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: The Causes Of The Financial Crisis
Here's the PDF file for this weekend's client note: Top Gun FP Client Note: The Causes Of The Financial Crisis.
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The Free Market Clapper
This is great: The Free Market Clapper. 100% true as well.
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The Human Consequences Of The Bust
Daily life in these developments seems a bit post-cataclysmic. Children play on elaborate but empty playgrounds. They walk their dogs past rows of shiny houses that have never been lived in. Voices echo up and ...
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Inflation And The Erosion Of Purchasing Power
Inflation is poised to become a serious threat to the world's economic well being - and not enough people are talking about it.
While Wall Street whines and whines about how the Fed is behind the ...
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Barron’s Economics Columnist Pens Two Excellent Columns On The Gold Standard
The last two weeks, Barron's economics columnist Gene Epstein has written an excellent two part case for gold:
"Greenspan Was Right: The Case for Gold, Part I" (subscription required)
"Restoring Balance: The Case for Gold, Part II" (subscription ...
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