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…Schodolski first says this: Huffington, a Cambridge University-educated conservative, had a brief tussle with political life when she was married to multimillionaire Michael Huffington, who spent about $29 million in…

William Vickrey and Those Forecasts of a Clinton Recession

…Economics (Cambridge University Press, 1994). Vickrey and James Mirlees were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996 for their contributions to the theory of incentives under asymmetric information….

Kudlow on Demand and Supply for Oil

…energy: As Dan Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, recently wrote in the Washington Post, rising energy prices today will cause energy supplies to explode tomorrow. I’m not so…

Meds and blogs

…the University of Cambridge identified specific biomarkers for schizophrenia. The team looked for psychosis-associated changes in the fluid which circulates around the brain and spinal cord. Their results showed that…

FYI on National Health Insurance

…Public Policy Committee American College of Physicians, Fayetteville, Tennessee Donald Berwick President and Chief Executive OfficerInstitue for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts Here is a real example (as of 12/17/07) of…

Spatial Price Index

…Honolulu ……………………………………….131.4 ……….82.9 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy………….. 124.8 ………112.6 San Diego ……………………………………..122.4 ………..98.9 Los Angles – Long Beach ………………120.5 ………..98.5 Manchester-Nashua NH ………………120.3 ………..94.0 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria .118.7 ……….133.5 Salinas CA…………………………………… 118.5 ………….81.7 Santa Barbara…

The End of a Recession… And Where We’re Going

…said when they made the call. Note that I’ve taken the liberty of emphasizing a few points: CAMBRIDGE July 17 — The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau…