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By Rob Parenteau, CFA, sole proprietor of MacroStrategy Edge, editor of The Richebacher Letter, and a research associate of The Levy Economics Institute This 2009 analysis by UBS, presented in FT Alphaville, debunks a central tenet of the deficit terrorist camp: If the deficit terrorists were cor... (original story)
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Panelists: Paul Krugman, C. Fred Bergsten, Robert E. Scott (original story)
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Tucked away in this Robert Reich article are some markers of what it will take for Americans to get back in the game. As of the end of 2009, he said debt averaged $43,874 per American, or about 122 percent of annual disposable income. Most economic analysts think a sustainable debt load is around ... (original story)
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That's the new Gary Gorton book and the subtitle is The Panic of 2007. It brings together Gorton's writings on the crisis in one convenient place but it serves up a fascinating afterword in which he asks how people will... (original story)
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Yale economist Bob Shiller says, correctly, that macroeconomists should be humble. (original story)
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Stefano Micossi, 16 March 2010Policymakers and commentators have suggested that large banks should be broken up. This column argues that such an idea risks the very existence of a global financial system. It outlines an alternative framework in which deposit insurance should be covered by banks not ... (original story)
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Efficiency isn’t morality, and it is a serious confusion to think it should be. Let me try again to explain. I said: Economic welfare cares not about giving people experiences but about satisfying their preferences. … If we do something a dead person would have wanted, that counts as a... (original story)
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(March 15, 2010 02:45 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Robin Hanson is probably the most logical mind I know, so it pains me when he keeps insisting that:As an analysis tool, economic efficiency is designed and well-suited to finding win-win deals that get us all more of what we... (original story)
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Justin Wolfers hoists the Texas Board of Education by their own Hayek. Or something like that: Hayek Propped Up by Government Intervention, by Justin Wolfers: Sunday’s New York Times reported on attempts by the Texas Board of Education to rewrite... (original story)