Tag: economics
member name: The Militant Moderate
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November 08, 2009 01:51 PM EST --
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January 21, 2009 07:13 AM EST --
I woke up at 5:30 this morning thinking about John Maynard Keynes, Jean-Baptiste Say, Paul Krugman and economics.
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October 09, 2008 07:49 PM EDT --
The Economist is a respected conservative British publication. It does not bode well for Senator McCain when the October 2nd issue describes his thusly.
"Though quick-witted on the stump, Mr . . .
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December 16, 2009 07:59 PM EST --
The economics group at LLI occasionally engages in interesting email debates. I set one off last week when I sent them this . I put a lot of time into my latest response, so I thought I would post . . .
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October 30, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
Source
No particular point - draw your own conclusions.
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March 28, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
Under the Obama Budget, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the US deficit will be $1.8 trillion in 2009 (4 times the highest deficit under the Bush administration), decline to $658 billion . . .
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July 02, 2009 09:14 PM EDT --
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee about half of all US home mortgages and were squarely in the middle of the mortgage meltdown. In the last two years they have lost more than $150 billion. . . .
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October 03, 2009 09:26 AM EDT --
Unemployment is now 9.8%.*
During the Bush administration Democrats talked about jobless recoveries and reminded us that the official unemployment rate did not reflect those who were working . . .
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October 30, 2009 11:25 AM EDT --
Please see Standard Political Disclaimer (redux)
On Wednesday, Edmunds.com released an analysis of the Cash for Clunkers program comparing actual car sales vs their estimate of . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:18 PM EST --
Members of congress, Democrat and Republican' fell all over each other in their rush to extend the $8,000 first time homebuyer’s credit, even throwing in a $6,500 credit for existing home owners . . .
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August 09, 2009 09:53 AM EDT --
Sunday’s New York Times has a good discussion of cap and trade vs. a carbon tax.
Greg Mankiw is a professor of economics at Harvard. His objection to the current cap and trade bill is that, . . .
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September 09, 2008 11:31 AM EDT --
It is a Republican mantra that lower taxes stimulate the economy, which results in higher revenues. While there is certainly anecdotal evidence, I have not found consistent hard data to support this premise. . . .
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September 10, 2008 07:58 PM EDT --
Lately I have been playing with charts of various aspects of the economy and a couple of people have mentioned the national debt.
Here goes!
After World War II, the national debt was relatively . . .
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October 08, 2008 08:33 PM EDT --
Lehman Bros CEO Punched In Face
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April 14, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
" an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget — just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits"
" In . . .
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May 26, 2008 08:43 AM EDT --
The chart below illustrates the percentage of the US budget devoted to National Defense, Human Resources, including Medicare and Social Security, and Net Interest on the US debt. The numbers will not . . .
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April 28, 2009 11:48 AM EDT --
From Mother Goose and Grimm.
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April 28, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
when people
who are on
Social Security,
Medicare
and often
Veteran’s Benefits
complain about socialism.
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October 30, 2009 06:13 PM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I posted a clip from Robert Reich where he
" played the role of a presidential candidate so politically incorrect and tone-deaf as to pummel every sacred cow in sight . . .
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November 10, 2009 08:12 PM EST --
Vanity Fair has an interesting bio of Larry Summers
HERE
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