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How much do I make

How much do I make from Brad Delong’s Grasping Realityis worth a read and some comparative figuring. Comments including our own Robert Waldmann are instructive….

US Federal deficits

…worth reading. Ed Harrison at Creditwritedowns weighed in here. Calculated Risk has posted a 5 series on Sovereign Debt both historical and comparative internationally. More to come from other economists….

How malpractice drives health care costs

…on this specific issue. ** These sorts of studies will be integral to comparative effective programs, added to academic medicine research. ______________________________________ Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt PS. I am going…

The pre-labor report labor reports

…point, what is the value added of these pre-labor labor reports? I always thought that the various reports should focus on what are their comparative advantages. For example, the ADP…

The second part of the trade deficit: oil

…added per employee and undertake more R&D than import-competing industries, this would raise US productivity and GDP growth. Those are the expected gains from expanding trade based on comparative advantage….

Vertical specialialization in world trade

…that comparative advantage was the basis of trade, he conceived of countries specialising in products, such as wine or cloth. Now, they specialise not so much in final products as…

Tax Competition: why it is not a good thing

…the least and owners the most possible is not a public good. The Tax Foundation also continues to compound the misrepresentation of the US comparative tax burden by emphasizing the…