…to Peter G. Peterson (see the discussion in this William Grieder cover story for the Nation Looting Social Security) and is represented in Congress by two pieces of proposed legislation….

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…

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…

…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…

…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…

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…

…as part of the labor force, and disability claims are up a lot. Economists for Dean cite a recent NYT Op/Ed by Austin Goolsbee that addresses this point: William Polley…

…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…

…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…

…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…