Pro Growth Liberal at Econospeak also takes Joe Scarborough to task on Krugman and Keynes: Joe Scarborough on the Deficit After his interview with Paul Krugman this morning Joe Scarborough wrote: Mr. Krugman’s view is that Americans would be better off if its government ran deeper deficits and ignored its longterm debt.To suggest that Keynesians like […]
Brad DeLong reminds us of the Kauffman Foundation presentations coming up. Rebecca Wilder is probably not going this year…she just had a baby early January, both doing fine, but ‘Matty’ only reads baby books to date, not nerd journals. Ken Houghton may have more to say on the conference later. PROPOSED PANEL 3: 2013 KAUFFMAN […]
Update: Noahpinion takes on the same in How to win arguments by pretending to be stupid. The comments section offers other points of view. Ron T. aka Jazzbumpa received an unusual thank you from Paul Krugman for this post on a Mish Shedlock post about debating PK. Krugman recommended Beverly Mann on January 15th this year […]
by Linda Beale Red state tax “reform” and “economic growth” As most tax practitioners and academics know, Professor Paul Caron maintains a “tax prof blog” that provides timely links to most things tax in major papers, blogs, journals, conferences and the like, as well as announcements and releases from theIRS, Treasury and Congress related to […]
Via New Economic Perspectives comes The Alternative* Frontline Untouchables interview *This video is a parody of the Frontline Untouchables interview that aired recently on PBS(hat tip rjs)
by run75411 Smoking is All About Poverty I raised the issue of why the elderly pay more than smokers for healthcare insurance since growing old is a natural occurrence and smoking and its associated disorders is self-inflicted. I raised it after STR said smokers are being robbed and I pointed out the elderly non-smokers and […]
by Cathy O’Niel and re-posted with permission of the author who writes her own posts for her blog mathbabe, who works and teaches in New York city as a quant with style. This piece is a comment on data collection, not his intent. Bill Gates is naive, data is not objective In […]
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/obama-track-deport-record-2-million-people-2014?akid=10000.29972.LmCOJH&rd=1&src=newsletter787632&t=5 Obama on Track to Deport a Record 2 Million People by 2014
If I could put my Vulgat Marxist hat on for a second another major difference between an invested pension fund and Social Security is that the fiormer fattens its balance by maximizing the extraction of value from labor productivity (and so increases ROI on capital) where SS thrives when labor retains as large a share […]