…tax cuts have LOWERED national savings. Update: Karl Rove gave a “Policy Address” at the American Economic Institute and JPod provides a partial transcript: And we’re going to be fine…

…at the Urban Institute. Such rates have not been seen since the mid-1960s, and most economists see them as impossible, if for no other reason than that the Federal Reserve…

…we read: Wages for nonsupervisory workers rose 3.4 percent in the year ended in March, notes Economic Policy Institute Senior Economist Jared Bernstein. That’s less than consumer prices rose over…

…= 4%; and (d) dividend yield. The Economic Research Institute provides us with a Black-Scholes calculator, which returns a value equal to $3.194 per option under these assumptions. Our attempt…

…those of the past? That question has already been answered, not least in a paper by Lee Price for the Economic Policy Institute. He shows conclusively that in almost every…

Max Sawicky is having some fun at the expense of George Will and Robert Novak. Novak writes: James E. Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been…

…account for these “other” valuation changes, identifies them as “statistical ‘manna from heaven.’” That would be William R. Cline’s The United States as a Debtor Nation (Institute for International Economics,…

…Institute. Mr. Reuel Marc Gerecht backed the American intervention. He now speaks of the bombing of the especially sacred Shiite mosque in Samara and what that has precipitated in the…

…costs for problems that are more seriously developed. A study by the Institute of Medicine estimates that providing health insurance to the uninsured would save perhaps $130bn by replacing expensive…

…that something is happening” to reduce labor’s share of income, says Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize- winning economist and professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. An economy…