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Eichholtz, Kok and Quigley: Economic Value from Green Buildings
This paper provides the first credible evidence on the economic value of the certification of green buildings-- value derived from impersonal market transactions rather thanengineering estimates. For some ...
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Federal Reserve
Microsoft runs a Windows Mobile event:
Windows Phone Thoughts: Mobius 2009: Fascinating, But Little That Can Be Shared :
Not quite you expect to see at Redmond, is it?
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Microsoft
Peter Orszag writes:
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY: H.R. 3961 — Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (Rep. Dingell, D-Michigan, and 6 cosponsors):
The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, ...
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Peter Fisher
Barack Obama
So says John Judis. He does, however, tell one thing that I think is a lie: that the New York Times and the Washington Post "have their strengths in foreign news." In my opinion, the two of them together don't have "strengths" rather they have one strength: Anthony Shadeed. Otherwise--well, ...
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The Financial Modelers' Manifesto
Korea
delong.typepad.com - 9 hours ago
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Three points to serve as background: First of
all, from the day after the collapse of Lehman
Brothers, the policies followed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. administrations have been very helpful. They have been good ...
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The Puzzles of American Political Economy Today
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Paul Krugman reads the tea leaves in what looks like the best piece of economic analysis I have read this month. When we do the things we do well, this is the kind of thing we do:
Interest rates: the phantom menace : From various bat squeaks I’ve put together a view of what I think ...
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Barack Obama
Personal Finance
Federal Reserve
Dwarf Elephants
Martin Wolf: Tax the windfall banking bonuses
Paul Krugman: Invisible bond vigilantes
This is truly amazing. It’s one thing to be intimidated by bond market vigilantes. It’s another to be intimidated by the fear that ...
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Annual change in the U.S. federal debt-to-GDP ratio, and presidential term averages:
Source: CBO Current-Law Baseline
Ford had bad luck--his presidency coincided with a down phase of the business cycle. But other than Ford, the contrast between the Democrats and the old-style ...
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Ford Motor Company
Social Democrats
US Trade Deficit
Gross Domestic Product
Barack Obama
Spencer Ackerman asks a question:
Oh, So That’s the Fifth Category of Detentions : As Marc [Ambinder] writes, that sounds a lot like the administration will just simply hold them in legal limbo, as per the so-called “Fifth Category” of detentions outlined by President ...
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Barack Obama
Spencer Ackerman asks a question:
Oh, So That’s the Fifth Category of Detentions : As Marc [Ambinder] writes, that sounds a lot like the administration will just simply hold them in legal limbo, as per the so-called “Fifth Category” of detentions outlined by President ...
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Barack Obama
Who writes:
Out of running room : I THINK Brad DeLong misread this post of mine from yesterday as a shot at him. It wasn't. I agree with him that the constraints which seem to be draping themselves across American policy options are worrisome. I was more focused on those who seized on his ...
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Federal Reserve
Patrick Nielsen Hayden FTW
Patrick Nielsen Hayden replied to comment from Angelheaded Hipster: Of course, this maneuver can be used to attempt to derail discussion of almost anything, since there's almost always something even more morally urgent that we could theoretically ...
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With respect to its: "That's the nature of many of these interventions—we all live to whine another day..."...
For the record, I wrote my piece not to "get a lot of links" but because I was trying to think through what the U.S. government could do over the next two years or so while ...
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Barack Obama
Personal Finance
Federal Reserve
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Mark Thoma is alarmed by our president: Economist's
View: Obama's Wrong-Headed Thinking on the Deficit : Edward
Harrison catches this quote from Obama.... Obama warned the United States' climbing national debt could drag the country ...
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Fiscal Expansion That Is Deficit Neutral in the Long Run
Justin Elliot of TPM on the Republican Party's Official Newspaper:
Wash Times Editor: I Was Forced To Attend A Moon Church Mass Wedding : Washington Times editorial page editor Richard Miniter is filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the paper today, ...
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Republican
Martin Wolf: Grim truths Obama should have told Hu
Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian: Forget emissions, focus on research
Malcolm Gladwell: Steven Pinker on "What the Dog Saw"
[Pinker] had three source.... The first was Steve ...
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Barack Obama
Arvind Subramanian
It's not Boltzmann's Brain:
It's Boltzmann's Bang:
Sean Carroll
Edge: WHY DOES THE UNVIERSE LOOK THE WAY IT DOES: A Conversation With Sean Carroll : I read papers by Huw Price, who is a philosopher in Australia... who... said that cosmologists are completely fooling ...
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Shut 'em both down now. Please. The stupid--it BURNS!!!!
Duncan Black:
Eschaton : Slutty Schoolgirl? Really? I thought the Newsweek cover was obviously a poor choice even if right wingers were getting a bit overwrought in their criticisms. But they also include a slutty Palin ...
Government
Sarah Palin
Ezekiel is doing the Lord's work on health care reform at OMB. His judgment is good. He is worth supporting--joggling his elbow is really not helpful given that he has the point on these sets of issues.
But I feel anxious--I don't think I can quite sign on with a good conscience to the whole ...
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Social Democrats
Barack Obama
For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it--that we know what to do and how to do it and will do it if things turn south.
I don't think I can say that anymore. In my estimation the chances of another big downward ...
