gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 12/20/2008
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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 or creating 2.5 million jobs over two ...
More Spending Stimulus Skeptics
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — Gary Becker : Perhaps their [Romer and Bernstein's] estimates of the stimulus provided by direct government spending are in the right ballpark, but I tend to believe that they are excessive. For one thing, the true value of these government programs ...
More Spending Stimulus Skeptics
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 1/16/2009 — The Chicago Tribune reports : John Cochrane, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, says that among academics over the last 30 years, the idea of fiscal stimulus has been discredited and in graduate courses, it is ...
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 ...
In Which We Love Some But Not All Stimulus Spending Skeptics...
delong.typepad.com 1/30/2009 — Arnold Kling feels lonely and unloved:
I'm feeling somewhat lonely these days. My understanding of macroeconomics is closer to that of Paul Krugman, Mark Thoma, and Brad DeLong than it is to that of Robert Barro, John Cochrane, or Eugene Fama. ...
Stimulus Spending "Skepticism"...
delong.typepad.com 1/15/2009 — When Republican Houser leader John Boehner wrote:
Republican Leader John Boehner : ATTENTION ECONOMISTS: ARE YOU A STIMULUS SPENDING SKEPTIC? A recent Associated Press article quoted transition officials for President-elect Obama as ...
Democrats Among Stimulus Skeptics
washingtonpost.com 1/28/2009 — Some See Long-Term Goals Going Unmet Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 28, 2009; Page A01
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 ...
"How Large is the Bradley Effect and Does it Matter for Obama?"
economistsview.typepad.com 11/4/2008 — I wish I hadn't read this:
Without the Bradley effect, Obama has an 84% chance of winning... However, the race is a coin flip if the
presidential race will exhibit a Bradley effect of the same size as the average
for the 22 House, Senate and ...
For Those Who Said He Wouldn't
maxedoutmama.blogspot.com 11/19/2008 — The governors had their climate change conference, and Obama made an appearance yesterday. The NY Times has the story : Speaking by video to a climate conference in Los Angeles, Mr. Obama repeated his campaign vow to reduce climate-altering carbon ...
Fiscal Stimulus Skeptics: Jonah Goldberg Outdoes Kevin Hassett
econospeak.blogspot.com 1/14/2009 — 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 ...
Vilsack: Slow Change We Can Believe In —
The Big Money 12/17/2008
In announcing his choice of Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture on Wednesday, President-elect Obama talked about how the Department of Agriculture is "designed to serve not big agribusiness or Washington influence-peddlers, but family farmers ...
Education: B+ for the new boy —
The Economist: Full print edition 12/18/2008
Barack Obama’s education secretary is a diplomatic reformer DURING the election campaign the economy submerged most talk of education. But beneath the surface, a debate churned between the self-proclaimed reformers and the teachers’ ...
Taxed Men —
The Big Money 12/18/2008
Since this story is about politics, let’s begin with an opinion poll. Of the following, who would you say has a harder fiscal job, given our economic dilemma? (We’ve redacted the names to prevent bias.)
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Secretary of Saving the World —
The Big Money 12/22/2008
Confidential sources have passed on to me a January to-do list apparently penned by Timothy Geithner, the New York Fed chief tapped to serve as President-elect Barack Obama's treasury secretary:
1. Find new house in D.C. 2. Fix unholy mess ...
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