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Is the new economic geography passé? - voxeu.org Why Wait to Raise Top Tax Rates? - Consider the Evidence Neglected Stimulus Ideas - Jeff Grogger Stimulus arithmetic (wonkish but important) - Paul Krugman Utah Explores Antitrust Lawsuit Against the B.C.S. - NYTimes.com The ...
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EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — ... looks at five prophets of doom. Thanks to Mark Thoma for the pointer. Except for Robert Shiller, all of them say that we have to pay for our sins of bubbles and over-consumption. Like the character Apollo Creed in one of the Rocky movies, their forecast is for pain. They convey the sense that good times are an illusion and now we must suffer for that illusion. This resonates with the sentiment in a popular type of religious sermon, even if there is little, if any, economics behind it.

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