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When the rivers run dry — the review

…and accurate message: we cannot continue to dry out our rivers for special interests and traditional methods of mismanagement. We, the people, will benefit from restoring water flows into their…

Uwe E. Reinhardt on health spending

…private health insurance, the gray Medicare, the yellow Medicaid and the blue “other third-party payments.” Economists would explain such a trend as flows: as the fraction of G.D.P. devoted to…

Why Does Y Equal Real GDP?

…But I agree that it makes far more sense, and is far more consistent with the Keynesian approach, to talk about nominal spending flows. (Really, you should use lowercase for…

Speculation About Oil

…front that futures markets play a vital role in allowing the producers and first-line purchasers of various commodities to be able to stabilize their cash flows and construct realistic business…

Trade intervention is good or bad??

…assumes that changes in trade flows only have first order impacts – in other words if a Chinese textile exporter loses his American client to a Mexican exporter, there will…