…to support well-researched tax proposals–saying that the GOP plan would produce record growth and that growth would pay for the tax cuts. See Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley, Treasury Defends…

…countries using the data set assembled by Oscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor which includes annual series for the nominal price of housing for 17 developed countries. For 13…

…posted in which one of the bloggers confidently asserts that 27% of US adults are insane reactionaries. That was the fraction who voted for Alan Keyes against Barack Obama. It…

…the University of Bonn and Alan Taylor of UC-Davis, have referred to the existence of a global financial cycle that is very responsive to U.S. monetary policy. Similarly, Matteo Iacoviello…

by Steve Roth (originally published at Evonomics) Economists Agree: Democratic Presidents are Better at Making Us Rich. Eight Reasons Why. In 2013, economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson — no…

Electrolux closing Memphis plant; Economic development malpractice leaves Tennesse holding the bag On January 31, Electrolux announced (h/t Alan Freeman, ipolitics.ca) that it would be closing its new (2012) factory…

…a topic that Weitzman also worked on, arguably more deeply and originally than did Nordhaus. Last April Alan Krueger also committed suicide, although we have to this day not learned…

…numeric. The issue is other than resources. Alan Collinge of Student Loan Justice commented on Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow’s snide remark on Student Loan Debt delinquency, saying “maybe they (students)…

…king and gleefully bow before him. If the president is acquitted, and it appears he will be, he will put Alan Dershowitz’s despicable argument to the test. He will do…

…in place should be the second element of our strategy. Finally, as Paul Romer and Alan Garber argue, we need a major effort to increase our capacity to test for…