Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.

You searched for: label/Feldstein

Wise Words from Carbon Sense Coalition

…Martin Feldstein estimates that the average person could pay an extra $1,500 per20year for energy. And those are just direct energy costs. Written largely by professional environmentalists, the numbingly complex…

Engine of our economy is….what?

rdan This piece of stormy’s post caught my attention: But ask yourselves–ask Krugman, ask Roubini, ask Martin Feldstein, ask any economist: What will be the engine of our economic recovery?…

Reasons I Haven’t Needed to Post

davenoon at LG&M and Kikuchiyo Jones subbing for the good Roger Ailes both clobbered the WSJ’s most egregious fluffing this year. Martin Feldstein continues to try to destroy the previously-brilliant…

Actually, "The Field" is Odds-on

Via Mankiw, who notes that “among economists listed” at PinnacleSports, Martin Feldstein is the favorite. I was going to snark that that must be because they have a lousy field…

Austan Goolsbee, Obama’s Econ Man

…is to control for the unobserved determinants of taxable income by using “natural experiments,”….The influence of the NTR literature such as Lindsey (1987) and Feldstein (1995a) is undeniable and, if…

The VAT as Solution to the Fiscal Nightmare

…paper explaining the logic, see the classic Krugman and Feldstein paper “International Trade Effects of Value Added Taxation”. The empirical evidence seems to confirm the economic theory. A paper by…

The Net Income From Abroad Puzzle

Via Mark Thoma comes a very nice discussion of the current account and capital flows from Martin Feldstein. This jumped out at me: This unprecedented level is equal to 6.4…

The Budgetary Effects of the Bush Tax Cuts

…convened a blue-ribbon panel of macroeconomists (including Alan Auerbach, David Bradford, Martin Feldstein, and Greg Mankiw) to help them develop their estimates. What were their results? The JCT used several…

Kudlow’s “Evidence” for the Free Lunch

…strange assertions, Bernasek should have referenced the work of Harvard economists Martin Feldstein and Greg Mankiw, along with numerous articles published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Then there’s…

The Krugman-Summers 1982 Inflation Memo As members of the Reagan CEA, Paul Krugman and Lawrence Summers wrote a memo to Martin Feldstein and Willam Poole on 9/9/1982 with the first…