Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Financial Crisis
Systemic Risk and Fannie Mae
“The education of Joe Stiglitz and Peter Orszag.” Foreign Policy
The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama, by Fouad Ajami
“A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends.”
Law and Economics
Terror by Trial Lawyer, by William McGurn
“Arlen Specter [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics
Krugman to the Rescue, by Steve Landsburg
Financial Crisis
Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery, by Jeb Hensarling and Paul Ryan
“When you repeal sound economic policies you repeal their results.”
Law
Travesty in New York, by Charles Krauthammer
“For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Financial Crisis
An Alternative Stimulus Plan, by Michael Boskin
“A payroll tax cut would add three to four million jobs at a fraction of the cost of the stimulus bill.”
The Permanent TARP, by Peter Wallison
“Current financial reform proposals would establish ‘too big to [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Art, Music and Culture
The Good, the Bad and the Exaggerated in Michael Moore’s New Film, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’
“Michael Moore’s movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, doesn’t pull any punches in its depiction of capitalism as the monster that is destroying America. [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic): Economics and the Financial Crisis
The Next Bailout: Commerical Real Estate, by Jeffrey Miron Did the TARP Increase Lending?, by Casey Mulligan
New York Times: “Economic theory casts significant doubt on the claim that public purchases of bank equity would cause banks to lend [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Economics and the Financial Crisis
Krugman’s Simplified History, by Alex Tabarrok
Here, Alex Tabarrok critiques Paul Krugman’s recent New York Times essay entitled “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong”; Krugman’s answer to his own question is that the economics profession had become [...]
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Economics
How large is the fiscal policy multiplier?, by Greg Mankiw
Professor Mankiw brings up a critical flaw with the Keynesian framework behind the so-called stimulus plan from earlier this year; that is, that the 1930’s style Keynesian theory relied upon by the [...]
In today’s Wall Street Journal, there is a very interesting and insightful article entitled “Infectious Politics” that explains why flu vaccines in particular and vaccines for infectious diseases generally are in such short supply in the United States. The contributing factors appear to involve a combination of price controls, regulation and tort lawyers. Of course, [...]