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Brad’s Draft Lecture

…non economists ? That’s a scary thought. 3) Brad notes the similarities between Herbert Hoover, Alan Greenspan and Job. Hoover and Greenspan have been very loyal to the pro market…

Watch out! We have been tweetered on Health Care

…points by Alan Caruba. Milt’s piece at his blog Please… Cut the Crap is here: Deconstructing Right Wing Lies. Important stuff and I’ll get back to it. But even more…

A Review of the First Half of Bailout Nation

…me that the book does not ascribe sufficient, er, richness or texture to the behavior we saw in Alan Greenspan. It assumes that Greenspan was little more than a bumbling…

Yankee Interlude

…runs in the middle and late innings this year. Is Alan Greenspan the Yankee pitching coach, and assuring the von Steingrabbers that such “bubbles” are ‘Once in a Century’ moments?…

Greenspan Protesteth Too Much

Cross and guest post by Raymond L. Richman ofTrade and Taxes Greenspan Protesteth Too Much Raymond L. Richman Alan Greenspan in his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal 3-11-09 entitled…

What Remains of the Keynesian Revolution ?

…perceptions of the relative ability of Paul Volker and Alan Greenspan compared to Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush Jr. I mean there were polite non ad hominem…

Do Economists Agree about Microeconomics ?

…comment after the jump. The micro debate includes the extremely eminent and empirically grounded Alan Krueger and David Card who estimate that, if anything, the minimum wage causes increased employment…

Salmon and Barnett on the $500,000 limit

…payments from the treasury. This argument was absolutely standard during previous bailouts (e.g. Alan Greenspan proposed bailing out NYC on terms such that no other city would ever become insolvent…

Two comments on Kling

…why Alan Greenspan was wrong to guess that low unemployment in the mid 90s did not imply that monetary tightening was needed. Neither you nor Hayek has explained why higher…