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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…

Dear Senator/Representative part 2

…baby boomer’s retirement this century, back in 1985 Alan Greenspan and the Democratic Congress changed the plan to overtax FICA payers so that the baby boom could pre-pay their retirements….

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…

Blinder and Zandi

Hat tip Calculated Risk for the Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi paper How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End….