By Daniel Becker (DOLB) Following up on Robert’s post which at it’s core is discussing the article: Economic Enlightenment in Relations to College-going…. I find it interesting (not alarming at…

by Daniel Becker I came across a presentation called Make Markets be Markets sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute which is tied to New Deal 2.0. Here is the full report…

by Daniel J. Becker Back in June of ’08 I asked regarding Jason Furman’s appointment by Obama: Is this the concession the Clinton/Blue Dog group was looking for? The DLC…

by Daniel J Becker (DOLB for the rest of you) UPDATED BELOW. Well, I thought being tonight is the big night for the President I would give my version of…

by Divorced one like Bush For this post I will formally introduce myself. I am Daniel J. Becker. It is only proper and just to do so. I am using…

…does not imply that increased public spending has no effect on aggregate demand. Krugman presented a model with Ricardian equivalence which implies a public spending muliplier of 1. Becker and…

…Except for some partially subsidized oil supplied by Kuwait, all oil-producing U.S. allies in the region charge us the market rate for petroleum. Update: See Naked Capitalism on Wolf Becker…

…increasingly concentrated in the hands of a relatively small, elite group. Recent research by Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon of Northwestern University has found that income in the top one…

…why should we assume that rational individuals would wish to have their overall retirement portfolio risk rise in this way. We have noted repeatedly the Barro-Becker position that individuals would…

…really agreeing with the Barro-Becker no free lunch proposition (as I do), then his real complaint should be with the Cato crowd that convinced George W. Bush there is some…