marginalrevolution.com - 1/8/2009
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President-Elect Obama just spoke at GMU. I was fortunate to have an invite. He had a number of good lines including as good a one-line explanation and justification for Keynesian economics as you will find: Only government can break the cycle that is crippling
our economy, where a ...
acrossthecurve.com - 1/8/2009
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President-elect Obama will provide details of his stimulus
package in a speech in Virginia at 1100AM. The...
package is expected to total around $800 billion. The Congressional Budget Office projects a fiscal year deficit of $1.2 trillion. However, that figure does not include the loss of ...
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Economist Philip Cook on alcohol control policy at the Volokh Conspiracy Alex Tabarrok on President-Elect Obama’s visit to George Mason Cass Sunstein to head OIRA (is this evidence that I was wrong that the Obama regulatory regime will be built upon an intellectual platform of behavioral law and economics?) Manfred Gabriel explains Hart-Scott-Rodino Tom Smith (the most entertaining law blogger around) on Krugman’s recent NYT piece (”Krugman has stooped to throwing around baseless accusations in a way that is a discredit to himself, the ...
Divergent Interpretations on the Obama Plan
The Austrian Economists —
... As we all know President-Elect Obama spoke at GMU yesterday to lay out his plan for the economy. Alex actually got to go and was pleasantly surprised. ...
Alex Tabarrok on Obama
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty —
Alex Tabarrok went to see President-elect Obama speak at George Mason University on Thursday and came away impressed . Why? Here are Alex's words: His [Obama's] goal is "not to create a slew of new government programs, but a foundation for long-term economic growth." Very good. But that's bad reporting. What Alex should have said is, "Obama said his goal is 'not to create a slew of new government programs, but a foundation for long-term economic growth.'" See the difference? The way Alex put it is that Obama's goals are what Obama says they are. But Alex is not in Obama's head. ...
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Predicting Obama's Food Policy —
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