When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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Charter Cities
An NPR interview with Stanford economist Paul Romer today caught my ear. He was talking about his “charter cities” project.
Can Invading a Small Third-World Country Stimulate the Economy?
Reviewing Reinhart and Rogoff's This Time is Different in the May 13 issue of the NY Review of
Who's Afraid of Debt and Deficits?
We just posted material from the May/June, 2010 issue of Dollars & Sense, including Marty Wolfson's article
Follow Up on Poterba on Capital Markets
In my most recent blog post, about last night's event at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
An Evening with Fancy Bankers
Chris Sturr, D&S co-editor, here. A few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend the "
Breaking News: SEC Sues Goldman Sachs
Just posted to the NYT website: U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud New York Times Read the full article.
Several Items: Greece, Taxes, Bond Market
Today's items: (1) Taxes: Since it's tax day, it's time to dispel some of
Several Items: Citigroup/stimulus, TBTF, Quakes
I will continue to post in digest form (multiple items) for a while—no luck on migrating the blog just
Steven Greenhouse at JP Forum This Thursday
This week at the Jamaica Plain Forum; hat-tip to Chuck C. Why We Can't Get Ahead: Job
Several Items: Medicare, Haiti, Taxes, Tea Baggers
While Blogger continues to screw up our blog, and until we can migrate to WordPress, I may start posting multiple
Obama's Pick to Head Medicare/Medicaid
Our last post was about Obama's bad choices for his debt commission—people who want to loot Social
Social Security Looters
We received this comment from Matthew Skomarovsky of LittleSis, the "involuntary Facebook of powerful Americans" (if you haven&