…information with which to evaluate economists’ advice. Peter Dorman also comments. Dr, Goose supplies some of the sarcasm I felt concerning transparency and the field of economics with this post:…

…everything including the proverbial kitchen sink, right? The sink is gone. The plumbing is gone in this house. All the copper. Anything metal that had value is gone. The furnace…

…quibble over financing public schools? Is that expenditure for prisoners reaping a better result? Maybe we should teach high school students to be prison guards as it is a growing…

Yes, I’m working with the null set again, but Peter Bockvar, chez Ritholtz, raises the most common objection to the Greek restructuring’s likely effect on the CDS market: [I]t will…potentially…

…now getting off their couches and going to tea-party rallies to maintain this unfair redistribution of wealth in their favor. For if they work, they risk having their dividends taxed…

…giveaway to the rich, this further example of governmental capture by oligarchy? He claims that this revenue reduction that benefits mostly the very rich will –yes, you guessed it–help generate…

The practice of ‘peer benchmarking’ and cozy relationships on executive boards have contributed to a steep rise in CEO pay since the 1970s, reports Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post’s…

…definition. GDP=GDP, as it were. P = Price Level. This is slightly more difficult conceptually, because we aren’t going to include everything. But if we assume (short-term) that the “market…

…“thinking” from the President—who has had Austan Goolsbee, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Alan Kreuger, Jason Furman, Jason Bernstein, and several others (even dissing Christina Romer, as the Now-Sainted-by-the-Press-for-his-Fairness-to-Women Obama explicitly…

…they’re fairly similar: Stevie gets followed by Aretha, Cockburn gets followed by an instrumentalist or a McGarrigle sister, Henley gets followed by mellow Genesis or Peter Gabriel (“In Your Eyes”)…