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The Monetary Policy Debates

…liberal, though it includes conservatives as well. If anything, it can probably claim a larger number of big-name economists — J. Bradford DeLong, Paul Krugman (an Op-Ed columnist for The…

‘unfortunate misunderstanding’…

…defend the law. Other than a short statement on April 25 by firm chairman Robert D. Hays Jr. calling the vetting process inadequate, the statement by J. Sedwick “Wick” Sollers…

Take a break …planning for efficiency

…are pro-safety involve various forms of buffers and redundancy and are thus costly. During the early days of the crisis, commentators often discussed the implications of Richard Bookstaber’s book A…

Tyler Cowen and ‘something amiss’

…salaries,” notes Richard Posner, a critic of today’s executive compensation (and also, incidentally, the judge who recently turned down Conrad Black’s U.S. legal appeal). The rich also greatly enriched themselves…

The Phillips Cure

House spending cuts hurt U.S growth -Goldman Sachs By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:50pm EST [fair use skip] “Under the House passed spending bill, the drag…

Eisenhower as a lefty politico

…Union address in 1974, a program that was well to the left of what either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama ultimately proposed? That would be Richard Nixon. Eisenhower and Reagan…