…edited for clarity.) So let’s combine a couple of recent articles (h/t Mark Thoma for the first, Digby for the second.) Richard Florida finds three studies of State Government Spending…

…found. It was prepared by Lee Epstein, a political scientist at Northwestern’s law school; William M. Landes, an economist at the University of Chicago; and Judge Richard A. Posner, who…

…A truly radical debt reduction scheme Felix Salmon: The deficit commission’s plan Dean Baker: Statement on Deficit Commission Proposals Richard Green: One hand clapping for the Deficit Commission Co-chairs’ powerpoint…

…meter system. It was December 1, 2008. That morning would be the first time that the Chicago City Council would be formally notified that Mayor Richard Daley had struck a…

…metric, private-sector financial leverage (accumulated dissaving), Clinton ranks among the top three worst economic managers, behind George Bush (Jr.) and Ronald Reagan. The chart illustrates private-sector leverage as a stock…

…largest banks to get smaller. Three Republicans, including Richard Shelby, the ranking member of the Banking Committee, joined 30 Democrats in supporting the measure. [snip] Although the defeat of Brown-Kaufman…

Barkley Rosser announces his new book: I am pleased to announce the publication of my book with David Colander and Richard Holt, European Economics at a Crossroads, being issued in…

…Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Dave Cote, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Ann Fudge, and Andy Stern….

…in 1997). Please see slide 9 from one of Richard Koo’s presentation in 2008; he highlights the policy-mistake-induced “unnecessary government deficits”. The point is: the government deficit is not some…

…Wagoner, Jack Smith, Ed Whitacre, Jr. As Business Week (via Wikipedia) dryly noted of Smith and Wagoner: After GM lost $30 billion during a single three-year stretch in the early…