econospeak.blogspot.com - 1/14/2009
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Just one day after my nomination , I have to rescind and give my nomination for the dumbest criticism of the Obama fiscal stimulus to Jonah Goldberg . After 7 paragraphs of Goldberg’s typical meaningless ramblings, we finally get this: That might overstate it a bit, because some naysayers can ...
Recession Will Be Less Damaging Without Bailouts: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 11/17/2008 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- When times are bad, you find out who you are. In some sense, economics is like sports. Sometimes you get slaughtered, but if you believe in yourself and keep fighting, you can win again. A look at ...
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bloomberg.com 9/22/2008 — How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett Commentary by Kevin Hassett Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The financial crisis of the past year has provided a number of surprising twists and turns, and from Bear Stearns Cos. to American ...
‘Manchurian Candidate’ Starts War on Business: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 3/9/2009 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Back in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson gave us the War on Poverty. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs . Now that we have seen President Barack Obama ’s first-year legislative agenda, we ...
The Great Overreach by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online
article.nationalreview.com 2/10/2009 — he stimulus bill has failed. Barack Obama has failed. The Trojan Horse of Hope and Change crashed into the guardrail of reality, revealing an army of ideologues and activists inside. Now, before I continue, let me say that Barack Obama will still be ...
Stimulus Spending Skeptics
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 12/20/2008 — An AP story reports : Obama advisers, including Christina Romer and Lawrence Summers, have been contacting economists from across the political spectrum in search of advice as they assemble a spending plan that would meet Obama's goal of preserving ...
Don't Let Sunspots or Headlines Make You Panic: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 10/15/2008 — Don't Let Sunspots or Headlines Make You Panic: Kevin Hassett Commentary by Kevin Hassett Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- With the world's attention turned to the financial crisis, a strange celestial occurrence went virtually unnoticed. For more than 200 days ...
Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 6/11/2009 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett June 8 (Bloomberg) -- I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed ...
Krugman on Stimulus Skeptics
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 1/19/2009 — Paul Krugman is unhappy with the economics profession : What’s been disturbing, however, is the parade of first-rate economists making totally non-serious arguments against fiscal expansion. You’ve got John Taylor arguing for permanent tax cuts as ...
The Fiscal Stimulus: What Will Work?
forbes.com 1/9/2009 — Last year at this time, Congress and the White House were so concerned about an economic downturn that they agreed in record time to a $152 billion stimulus bill that sent $300 rebate checks to every taxpayer. The theory was that people would ...
Christina Romer on YouTube on the Stimulus Plan
economistsview.typepad.com 1/11/2009 —
Paul Krugman is pushing for more:
More on Romer/Bernstein : Still picking over the Romer/Bernstein
official
evaluation of the Obama economic plan. Again, kudos to the team for
producing such a clear, honest assessment. But ...
Obama to Get Bailout Cash —
The Big Money 1/13/2009
It looks as if president-elect Barack Obama will get his $350 billion , the remaining half of the TARP fund yet to be spent, the New York Times reports this morning. Despite growing hostility from many Democrat and Republican lawmakers, the ...
My Stimulus Is Better Than Yours! —
The Big Money 1/14/2009
Even before President-elect Obama takes office, critics are circling his yet-to-be-released stimulus plan. There is skepticism from both the left and right, but the most emphatic objections come from conservatives, who question the utility of ...
Reject Schapiro —
The Big Money 1/14/2009
When Bernie Madoff told his sons in December that his quiet, exclusive, and respectable investment fund was in reality no more than a "giant Ponzi scheme," it was the final disaster in an autumn of cataclysms, not just for the financial markets but ...
Bailout Watch —
The Big Money 1/14/2009
As Barack Obama prepares to take office and stimulate the economy, he's got to contend with a lot of government borrowing already on the books. Last month's announcement of $17.4 billion for the car sector was just the latest of more than a dozen ...
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