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Year 2009 Angry Bear Attitude

rdan As the Obama administration issues executive orders and eventually implements policies, we have an obligation to watch how policies mature and how they are actually implemented. As cactus has…

WTO and the auto industry bailout

…open a Pandora’s Box, bringing to a head a long-simmering dispute over policies that U.S.-based General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC say unfairly aid rivals, including state-financed…

Mankiw’s Incentives

…than when that President began following policies Mr. Mankiw promoted and supported, and lower than it was than when he officially became his President’s chief economic advisor. Most of these…

Krugman’s Nobel

…people who criticize Krugman don’t seem to like the fact that he’s been calling GW’s policies stupid for the past eight years. Considering that none of GW’s policies actually worked…

What next?

…rates and absolute price stability) been the Fed’s policies from the early 1990s onwards, there would not have been either the tech boom and bust nor the subprime mortgage crisis…

Taxes and cuts

by One Salient Oversight If John McCain wins the November election and becomes president of the United States, it is likely that he will continue to support Supply side policies

Economic trouble

…Random chance? For no particular reason, this happened now? Or is it their economy, their policies? My guess is that they’ll find some other reason, something other than their own…

Compare and Contrast

by CoRev and Rdan Let’s compare the two candidates policies, major component by major component. It will not be easy because they are both extensive but modestly detailed. Furthermore, you…

To the heart of the chant on tax cuts

…book’s product description, you’ll note that they call them policies that redistribute income” “Peter Lindert inquires as to whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Although…