nytimes.com - 11/3/2008
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AS economists and policy advisers try to sort out where we are, how we got here and where we must go for both the short term and the longer term, we are surrounded by polarizing dichotomies: Fiscal recklessness versus fiscal rectitude; capital versus labor; free trade versus protectionism. The ...
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Fiscal Implications of the Candidates' Plans - Econbrowser
Lacker: Mixed Signals May Have Added to Market Woes - RTE
Quantifying the Bradley effect: Will Obama win? - Vox EU
Harry Markowitz says valuation is the critical step - WSJ.com
Everyone’s Watching - James Surowiecki
How smart is the American voter? - Los Angeles Times
No More Economic False Choices - NYTimes.com
Naive faith in Congolese ballot box - Paul ...
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... writes today, Obama’s first challenge on economic policy will be how to balance his “big and ambitious agenda” with a feasible “strategy to reach those goals over time”–in other words, how to listen to the advice of all of his economic advisers, both the Jared Bernstein (bigger government) types and the ...
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