…subject of “Simulating U.S. Tax Reform”by David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlifkoff, Kent Summers, and Jan Walliser (NBER Working Paper # 6248, Oct. 1997, with an early version available here)….

…In case you missed it, Ms. Bruce is a recently hired ‘liberal’ analyst for Fox News, but her liberalism can really make you yearn for Alan Colmes. In a nutshell,…

…Bernanke, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, articulated the argument that the main culprit is high productivity growth in the US. On the other hand, Alan Krueger, one of the…

…have got Ellen Ratner. They have got Alan Colmes. FRANKEN: Who? CULLUM: Ellen Ratner, who is a very outspoken (CROSSTALK) Swing and a miss, strike one. CONASON: Why can’t I…

…conference tonight at 8:00. Alan Kreuger writes on the ballooning federal deficit. Items of note include Goldman, Sachs raising its estimate of the deficit for the current year to $375b…

Lynne Parramor via Alternet writes a passionate post on Pete Peterson, Alan Simpson, and Erskine Bowles regarding Social Security. Along the same vein comes this quote from John Kenneth Galbraith…

…cost less per dollar loaned and recoup greater than the dollar loaned in default as pointed out by Alan Collinge of the Student Loan Justice Org. Increasing student loans today…

…chart and Alan Thomson at Terra Firma Financial for digging it out. (JGB is Japanese government bonds.) Before the last 3 recessions in Japan the yield curve flattened out a…

…Clinton administration official Alan Blinder and co-author Mark Watson [look] at the well-established fact that GDP growth under Democratic Party presidents is more rapid than under GOP Presidents, and concludes…

…floor. Two bright young economists at Princeton, David Card and Alan B. Krueger, recognized in that dull occurrence a promising natural experiment (*). The two found fast-food joints along the…