everydayfinance.blogspot.com - 11/17/2008
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I spent Election Week in Europe performing due diligence for a deal I'm working on and with our team rushing through five countries in five days, it was rather surreal to experience the U.S. election from abroad. The first thing I noticed was that Monday night (just prior to Tuesday ...
Barack Obama - Topics
nydailynews.com 10/4/2008 — Lots of TV fun as Mac, Bam finally show personality Posted on 10-16-2008 After two previous debates that felt like the candidates could have sneaked out to the movies and sent holograms to the TV studio, John McCain and Barack Obama this time brought ...
A View from India
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 11/2/2008 — In The Times of India, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar writes about the U.S. presidential candidates: McCain is one of the few American politicians in either party with the courage and conviction to stand up to protectionist populism. By contrast, ...
Saving and taxes
macroblog.typepad.com 11/7/2008 — I hope you will excuse me for trading in a bit of old news, but I’ve been thinking about a post by Greg Mankiw from last week. Titled “ My Personal Work Incentives ,” the item takes published details of the McCain and Obama tax proposals. The essence ...
Fiscal Implications of the Candidates' Plans
econbrowser.com 11/3/2008 — I think now is the time to consider the fiscal implications of the candidates' budget -- and particularly tax -- plans, especially considering the revenue declines and outlays that will confront the next President. Indeed, I would say imminent ...
Oversimplifying InTrade
scsuscholars.com 10/21/2008 — I was reading Ed's exasperation with people citing InTrade and concluding that the McCain-Obama race is somehow over. I don't read InTrade the same way. To tell the story, let me use a very oversimplified model (and wonder at the end if it's TOO ...
Obama, McCain Pit Plumbers vs Hedge-Fund Managers in Tax Debate
bloomberg.com 10/23/2008 — Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The presidential campaign yesterday came down to a contest of ``Joe the Plumber'' versus ``Joe the Hedge-Fund Manager.'' Republican John McCain continued to invoke the Ohio man, known now as Joe the Plumber, to charge that ...
My Personal Work Incentives
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 10/26/2008 — Here is a question that you may have been thinking about: How do the different candidates' tax plans affect Greg Mankiw's incentive to work? Okay, you probably haven't been thinking about this. But I have, because, after all, I am Greg Mankiw. And if ...
Blog Archive » Hedge funds: “Yes, we can!”
ftalphaville.ft.com 11/6/2008 — What a curious relationship exists between newly-elected US President Barack Obama and hedge funds. The industry has donated over $1m to Obama’s campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org (small change to a hedge fund manager, perhaps, but it still makes ...
Good Little Stuff from Big Mac
kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com 10/15/2008 — It certainly wasn’t the big-bang across-the-board tax-reform and tax-cut plan that I and others lobbied for. But John McCain’s “Pension and Family Security Plan” unveiled today on the campaign trail does have some solid pro-growth nuggets. I’m calling ...
How McCain Could Have Won
econlog.econlib.org 11/5/2008 — (November 4, 2008 09:27 AM, by Bryan Caplan) Yesterday my RA, Brian Blase, made the smartest point about political strategy that I've heard all year. In fact, if Blase were McCain's right-hand man instead of mine, the Republican candidate's ...
Lexington: Ship of fools —
The Economist: Full print edition 11/13/2008
Political parties die from the head down JOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. Today the Conservative Party is run by Oxford-educated high-fliers who have been busy reinventing conservatism for a new ...
The O Corps —
The Big Money 11/17/2008
Barack Obama is a green-energy nut. It’s not because he’s a conservationist—his legislative record doesn’t suggest anything beyond the normal progressive votes. It’s not because he’s an Al Gore disciple—Obama won’t get near the former VP’s idyllic ...
Lexington: How new a deal? —
The Economist: Full print edition 11/20/2008
Comparisons between Barack Obama and FDR are misguided IN HIS victory speech on November 4th Barack Obama talked about people putting “their hands on the arc of history” and bending it “once more towards the hope of a better ...
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