Krugman and Waldmann (wonkish) part two
…That seems to me to be a problem right there given how badly contemporary macroeconomists (including the oversigned) forecast. But it provides a key insight to policy makers (in scare…
…That seems to me to be a problem right there given how badly contemporary macroeconomists (including the oversigned) forecast. But it provides a key insight to policy makers (in scare…
…looks like another Republican congressman, Texas Rep. Michael Burgess, who also is a physician, has hit upon the solution at least to one problem: the shortage of primary-care physicians. “Many…
…you say that America has a hunger problem or an obesity problem?” As anyone who looked at the same street would guess, food insecurity causes later obesity. The Hoynes et…
…to large and infrequent events. [skip] 3. There has to be more than price rigidity. [skip] 4. The notion that co-ordination across economic agents matters to explain the dynamics of…
…year for the next twenty years (or so), or “whenever the Trustees project short term actuarial insolvency”… will entirely solve the Social Security funding problem. It would even solve that…
…is the CPI basket). It is not a safe substitute for the dollar because of insane exchange rate fluctuations. The problem with SMP coin is that, while it would have…
…sound-bite would have been eliminated when the story was edited. “The problem is with the Internet,” she added, “once something gets out there, it is impossible to reel it back…
…the familiar panoply of constitutional rights. One obvious problem with this derivative-constitutional-rights thing, though–albeit a problem that the Citizens United majority didn’t acknowledge–is that the individual shareholders of at least…
…by its own country’s labor force, but another’s. And we can ultimately conclude that the problem of a falling labor share is not particular to one or two countries… Low…
…in the past spent different amounts on reducing pollution. Considering cost was therefore a solution to what she called an “allocation problem.” Equity, not efficiency, was driving the bus. Because…