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The WSJ Editorial Page: Fumbling Toward Accuracy II

…aren’t going to bother to dig too deeply?” The WSJ piece ends with a classic “disregard what we’ve said for the past several years, especially the David Malpass and Larry

MINIMUM WAGE & TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT

…driven by the business cycle. I’ll leave it to others to do the econometrics and demonstrate how to weight each. But, all those like Larry Kudlow blaming the current rise…

Family & Household Real Income Trends

Last Friday Arnold Kling at Econlog and Russell Roberts at Cafehayek commented on Larry Bartels book Unequal Democracy and I made some comments about what they were saying. Bartels used…

Opus 1, Second movement: On taxation

…with the theory when one like Mr. Avi-Yonah is looking for reasoning in support of progressive taxation. He quotes Larry Zelenak and Kemper Moreland: Regardless of the results of any…

Psychologists and torture

…worst argument for psychologists’ presence at interrogations comes from U.S. Army Col. Larry James, director of the psychology department of a military medical center. “If we lose psychologists from these…

Stealth CEO Compensation and Stock Options

Larry Crumbley had a nice explanation of the accounting for employee stock options: Instead of replacing APB 25’s intrinsic value based method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation plans, SFAS…