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…opportunity to publish on the WSJ editorial page. Robert Barro, Larry Lindsey, Kevin Hassett, Greg Mankiw, Glenn Hubbard, and now these three dudes, all very smart guys — they write…

…an interesting Clinton quote from his recent appearance with Bob Dole on Larry King: Well, here’s what happens: every day the president gets a daily brief from the CIA. And…

Must-Watch Daily Show You should probably be watching the Daily Show anyway, because Jon Stewart is more informative than Larry King any day of the week. In any event, tonight’s…

…took a big step towards closed standards, though it still remains by and large open–for the time being. Larry Lessig’s blog and his book, The Future of Ideas, are pretty…

House effects

…when computers were made of flints and bear skins). To drop another name, I asked Larry Katz what he thought of raising the minimum wage. He refused to answer yes…

Read Jeff Madrik

…often made in the first person — for examples by Paul Krugman, Brad DeLong and Larry Katz Little wonder, then, that Americans, in another Pew survey, last winter, ranked protecting…