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 to last fall’s financial…
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 or policy; it…
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 New York Times…
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 for a malpractice suit. Yet…
Here’s the PDF file for this weekend’s client note: Top Gun FP Client Note: The Causes Of The Financial Crisis.
This is great: The Free Market Clapper. 100% true as well.
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 down the block. Unfinished houses…
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 curve, they need to…
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 required) The key…
A UC Davis Economics Professor, Gregory Clark, recently published a book that has created quite a sensation among the professoriate. Catchingly titled “A Farewell To Alms” it takes aim at the question of economic growth: What is the cause of…