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The Time I Offered to Bet $10,000

…for the first time in a year or so. (Ask your grandfather about the recession of 1990-1991.) In short, I am not liquidity-constrained. Alan “Ace” Greenberg—the last CEO of Bear…

The ATM Myth

…“thinking” from the President—who has had Austan Goolsbee, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Alan Kreuger, Jason Furman, Jason Bernstein, and several others (even dissing Christina Romer, as the Now-Sainted-by-the-Press-for-his-Fairness-to-Women Obama explicitly…

A Tense Problem

Mark Thoma begins with a hilarious typo, but eventually gets to the Quote of the Decade (if not century) from Alan Blinder: If we economists stubbornly insist on chanting ‘free…

David Cay Johnston on the Child-Care Credit

…weekly Tax Notes called “Johnston’s Take.” This week, he examines Alan Viard’s claim that the child-care credit is a boon for working parents. Download Who Benefits from child-care credit.110810 Viard…

Simpson to disabled vets

…said Tuesday. Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson’s comments came a day after The Associated Press reported that diabetes has become the most frequently compensated ailment among Vietnam veterans, even though…