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A Little Sleight of Hand

Robert Waldmann WILLIAM D. COHAN has a rather harsh op-ed in the New York Times about Goldman Sachs’s reported $ 1.8 billion in profits in the first quarter. Ah op-eds…

Adam Smith Says Tax Soda Pop

Robert Waldmann William Saletan covers new bold, to him alarmingly extreme, frontiers of public policy. Here he shows he hasn’t quite figured out Smith’s insights on public finance and that…

The President met Mr Buffet

…fall, billionaire investor Warren E. Buffet, Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and William H. Gross, the managing director of PIMCO, the largest bond fund in the world, approached Treasury…

Really Implausible Economic Arguments

…constant velocity argument. William Poole asserted that if there is Ricardian equivalence, then government spending must crowd out consumption. The odd thing is that these are all demand side arguments…

Looting Social Security: (the Basics Revisited, Again)

Mark Thoma at Economist’s View links us to the following article from William Grieder at The Nation. Looting Social Security Governing elites in Washington and Wall Street have devised a…

Galbraith: Unemployment Statistics Of The New Deal Era

…the following was particularly interesting Even pro-Roosevelt historians such as William Leuchtenburg and Doris Kearns Goodwin have meekly accepted that the millions of people in the New Deal workfare programs…

Health care in MA is out of balance

…in Massachusetts medicine. … Behind the rankings To walk the gleaming corridors of Partners’ flagship hospitals is to tour a Hippocratic Hall of Fame: Dr. William Morton first demonstrated the…

Heritage Looks at the McCain and Obama Plans

…particular report is authored by William W. Beach, Karen Campbell, Rea Hederman, Jr., and Guinevere Nell.) Heritage being Heritage, I don’t think I have to tell you how it comes…