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Must-Read of the Day, non-NBER edition

…arguing against the current stance of monetary policy, but fails to provide an alternative policy path. And the presumed policy path, tighter policy, looks likely to only worsen the distortions…

Lost Decade, Redux

…Tax Reform to the 2001 recession—a big if, I grant you, but one that the Gingrich/DeLay-led Republican Party predicted would produce mayhem, and the alternative-history is not difficult to imagine—I’m…

How Unitarians Saved Christmas

alternative, calling it “Christ’s Mass,” or Christmas. Another fact: nobody was as hard on Christmas as the Puritans, the folks who built the pews you are sitting in, who thought…

OWS and economics

…signals concerns about a concentration of economic power that unfairly limits individual choices, undermines political democracy, generates financial and ecological crises and limits access to alternative economic ideas. We can’t…

Procurement

…the Army doesn’t want (and reject Afghanistan base defense systems that it did); to keep an unnecessary $3 billion GE contract to build an “alternative engine” for the single-engine Joint…