Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: How Dismal is the Fiscal Future For America and Europe? Becker – The Becker-Posner Blog www.becker-posner-blog.com Here’s Nobel Laureate Gary Becker’s views on the possibility of a (developed economies) debt crisis: “Posner lays out clearly many of the present and future solvency and default …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: The Emerging Markets’ Century — The American, A Magazine of Ideas www.american.com “Whereas public debt levels in many major industrialized countries will soon exceed 100 percent of GDP, those in the major emerging market economies generally range between 40 to 50 percent of GDP.” …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Michael P. Fleischer: Why I’m Not Hiring – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, Michael P. Fleischer writes that punishing tax rates discourage job creation by businesses.” Book review: The Five-Year Party – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews The Five-Year Party: How Colleges …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Nature or nurture: What determines investor behavior www.sciencedirect.com Here’s the abstract from this fascinating article: “Using data on identical and fraternal twins’ complete financial portfolios, we decompose the cross-sectional variation in investor behavior. We find that a genetic factor explains about one-third of the …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Hurricane Neal: Cat. 5 – Barrons.com online.barrons.com “Rep. Richard Neal’s bill has foreign insurance companies worried.” ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Puts His Money Into ETFs – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Scott Adams uses his ‘Dilbert’ strip to mock actively managed funds and their managers.” Connecticut Probing Pricing of …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Obama Declares Auto Bailout a Success – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “The president said last year’s $60 billion rescue of GM and Chrysler saved an estimated one million jobs… Alan Blinder of Princeton University and Mark Zandi of Moody’s, estimated that the rescue of GM during …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Debate Heats Up Over Stimulus Spending – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Eighteen months after Obama administered a massive dose of spending increases and tax cuts, a fight has broken out about whether fiscal-stimulus medicine is curing the illness or making it worse.” For a page 1 …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com Interesting New Yorker article about former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee… Will the U.S. Hand Chavez a License to Kill? www.american.com “Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s record of providing money, arms, political …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Taking apart the federal budget www.washingtonpost.com “(Graphically) Explore the various facets of the government’s budget and see how revenues and spending have changed over time.” Basically, this is a lesson in real world public finance in only 5 slides! Michael Boskin: Obama’s Economic Fish …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: David Cameron: A Staunch and Self-Confident Ally – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “British Prime Minister David Cameron writes in The Wall Street Journal that the U.S. and Britain have a clear common agenda: succeeding in Afghanistan, securing economic growth and fighting protectionism.” You Don’t Have to …
