…to base such assumptions on in this context. David Altig reviews an interesting time series analysis from Jack Bernstein (hat tip to Max Sawicky) and writes: There is a deep…

Max Sawicky calls this bad government: Confiscate land and charge back rent for the years the owners fought confiscation. In some cases, their debt could amount to hundreds of thousands…

…Based Community. On the right – BlogsforBush carried the Administration’s spin that this news was evidence of some supply-side miracle. Brad’s post linked to Max Sawicky. Mark Thoma has more….

…read Vickrey, he was a left-leaning Keynesian in the spirit of Max Sawicky or James Galbraith. Let’s recall the macroeconomic environment during the summer of 1993. We had continuing large…

Stephen Moore will join The Wall Street Journal as its senior economics writer. While Kevin Drum calls this a move to lower their collective intelligence, Max Sawicky suggests this move…

Are we Democrats being dishonest about the Bush-Pozen Social Security plan? The latest NRO column from Rich Lowry drew fire from Max Sawicky and Matthew Yglesias. Matthew points out how…

…Max Sawicky notes that they look like ginned-up large numbers unless put in the context of the present value of future GDP over the same horizon. And Bruce does close…

…Bruce Bartlett is a must read for anyone who is interested in having an effective Treasury Department . And reader Ken Houghton points us to another gem from Max Sawicky….

…in this crazy quilt. Do the labels on the IOUs matter? … The unfunded liability is the amount of money that we would need to put away today in order…

…paper by Baker-DeLong-Krugman (BDK). Max Sawicky provides another perspective on the Gunfight at the Brookings Corral as does Brad. Greg might have given a citation to Andrew Samwick for this:…