…like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic. But I wonder what his base is — Tyrone: 27%. John: … you said that immmediately, and with some authority. Tyrone: Obama vs. Alan…

…cutting Social Security are multimillionaire elites Alan Simpson, a former Wyoming senator, and Erskine Bowles, a former White House chief of staff. They are co-chairs of President Obama’s debt commission….

…Literature by Alan J. Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley, and Joel Slemrod of the University of Michigan, which found almost no “real” effects on the economy despite massive…

…Management, who has a blog at the Financial Times, has posted the transcript of a “debate” he organized with Maurice Obstfled of UC-Berkeley, Alan M. Taylor of UC-Davis and Dominic…

…make more money when the students quit paying on them and as Alan Collinge pointed out for every $1 loaned an unpaid loan through default makes $1.20, far greater than…

…about 30% in the United States to 55% in Sweden. Since 1980, those levels are essentially unchanged. As discussed by Alan Krueger, countries with high inequality tend to have lower…

…consuming slack by dividing capacity utilization by the unemployment rate in terms of percentage change year-over-year. (Thanks to Alan Thomson at Terra Firma Financial who created this graph in response…

…ALLEN 2,735,520 OK INHOFE, JAMES M 3,232,035 JOHNSON, CONSTANCE NEVLIN 542,927 LANKFORD, JAMES PAUL MR 3,899,386 SILVERSTEIN, MATTHEW BENJAMIN 455,230 OR MERKLEY, JEFFREY ALAN 9,144,950 WEHBY, MONICA 5,378,129 RI REED,…

Today we see an article, Betting the house: Monetary policy, mortgage booms and housing prices by Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick, Alan Taylor. They warn of excessive easy monetary policies. Their…

…I’ve written before about the weakness of economic development cost-benefit analysis. Even by that low standard, North Carolina’s performance is breathtaking. Report author Alan M. Freyer suggests that the Legislature…