The Washington Post updates us this morning on the current thinking in the White House about changing Bush’s economic team. It looks like Snow will be out soon too: Aides…

…suggest that Bush needs new economic advisors. I disagree. What Bush should have done was to listen to his economic advisors rather than having them write copy for Karl Rove….

…treatise been posited. Yet California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made it sound so simple in his speech at the Republican National Convention: there are no economic problems, only economic girlie-men. Kash…

…allow any and all firms to survive, even the socially undesirable ones, in the name of “economic recovery”. I say that the true economic recovery is the recovery of higher…

What does economic growth mean for Americans by Uwe E. Reihnhart Suppose we placed a carefully selected sample of men on a hot stove and another sample of men on…

…rather institution design will be our big problem in keeping the pace of true economic growth going into the long-run future.” Here he links economic growth to institutional changes, not…

A talk given by Christina Romer was very good. (Posted by Mark Thoma) She said many practical things about economic downturns. She loved to refer back to the Great Depression….

It’s a familiar situation: business and government officials are promoting a new economic development deal which naturally includes subsidies for the investor. They may be touting a consultant’s study touting…

…disconnect between economic reality and market valuation. More likely, it’s a warped market distorted by the extraordinary measures used to create an economic lift.” Warped defines the market very well….

CBO Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 Document link for Robert’s post. Lots of numbers here, including a new Jan 2015 Baseline for Social Security Just started poking at…