…current Administration thinking is that we should strive for specific economic outcomes through deliberate policy actions. Why not include Social Security solvency via economic growth as one of those outcomes?…

…areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down. That is what my economic agenda is…

…and it has brought them better economic security than what they were experiencing beforehand. Naturally, such economic changes came at a price, and many mistakes were made and many people’s…

Michael Perelman at Econospeak and here has thoughts on the role of the worker in economic theory I found interesting. An August 8, 2008 search of 73 economics journals collected…

Moon of Alabama used this chart to chat about Schlaes. GDP numbers according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (bigger graph) A. Smoot Hawley Tariff ActThe first misstep according to…

…assumed by the Council of Economic Advisors under the actual economic projections of the Intermediate Cost alternative. (Oddly enough for an open and public challenge this has been moved behind…

Hoisted from comments, Bruce Webb writes… The Economic Right as represented by Sowell are getting desperate and as such are petulently lashing out. The key to understanding their thinking is…

…economically ignorant … Liberals don’t understand economics, but that doesn’t stop them from following a “liberal economic theory.” This theory is fallacious in its assumptions that the “rich” (who, according…

…between tax cuts and economic growth. The 2003 tax cut was indeed followed by economic expansion, but the 2001 tax cut was followed by economic contraction. How can we conclude…

…likely would be accompanied by some economic stress, though the macroeconomic implications need not be substantial. This was a fairly upbeat assessment of the state of the US economy, I…