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Real world business for the economic buffs

by divorced one like Bush I thought for something a little different during the holiday respite and assuming there will be no major economic calamities, maybe some readers would like…

…consumer confidence, and a rising stock market. 2.2% growth is basically ok, closer to recession than to boom, but basically neither. It would take growth rates somewhat above 3% to…

Raising Future Taxes Yet Again

…argument: specious logic; ignorant confusion of correlation with causation; deliberate simple-mindedness; or even the “Donald Duck theory of economic growth“. Whichever label you choose, it is, unfortunately, also just par…

Train Drain

…expected to rise by just 6 percent to 13 percent over the next 10 years. Why so little? Many well-known factors work against the growth of American manufacturing, including shortages of appropriately…

…bore people with stuff they already read 10 times today. As an economist (roughly) I am interested in behavioral economics, growth, and the economics of inequality. Actually much of my…