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Rumours of "Green Shoots" are Exaggerated: Illinois

…five last week. Three (in Elizabeth, Oregon, and Danville) are in the NW part of the state. The other three are located near Chicago (Worth, in Cook County), Urbana (Clinton),…

Buyers and Salespeople

Chicago School. But I digress. It is true that sales of expensive property has its pit falls and the buyer should certainy beware. My studies opinion, however, would suggest that…

Brad DeLong Raises the Jolly Roger

…“fair use” restrictions). Jacob Viner (1933), “Balanced Deflation, Inflation, or More Depression” Perhaps the most important single document with respect to how much the Chicago School of Economics has forgotten…

More than numbers and sanctity of bonus contracts

…health insurance, an essential benefit to workers who don’t qualify for Medicare and who often have children still at home. “It’s a frightful societal development,” says Bill Brandt, a Chicago-based…

Morning Edition

…Morning Edition, February 18, 2009· NPR’s Ari Shapiro asked economist Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business what determines whether a bank falls into the category…

Piling on Cochrane

…the money supply will have been increased. I wonder what Friedman would think of the fact that a prominent prof at U Chicago doesn’t know the definition of M1. More…

A Further Critique of Romer and Romer

…version of a tax bill is often a particularly rich source of such calendar-year and fiscal-year revenue estimates. Anyway, long story short, if St. Ronnie and the Chicago Boys said…

Programming Note

…a way to pity sadly the University of Chicago’s Business School curriculum (yes, there’s an is-McMegan-is-being-obtuse-or-is-she-stupid post someone has to write; I’ll trust that someone will)—Happy Hanukkah, Xmas, Kwanzaa, New…