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Mr. Dan, When I started reading Angry Bear I was working as a technical editor (degree in English) and had zero knowledge of economics, but I was watching the (to…

Taxes and cuts

…—————– http://one-salient-oversight.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-money-and-mondale.html —————– Quotes: —————– The problem is that, for the last 25 years, the Republican Party has been dominated more or less by Supply-side economics, a form of “voodoo…

…always, people get masters in Economics as a sort of consolation prize when they can’t pass the qualifying exams at the end of the first or second year (Economics is…

Quote of the Day Last Thirty Years of Economics

…another thing — [the problem with economic modeling] isn’t [limited to] new classical macroeconomics. The same criticisms apply to new Keynesian DSGE models. Adding totally unexplained Calvo alarm clocks doesn’t…