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They’re All Keynesians!

Really. Yes, it has been a long day waiting for this interminable storm to pass through. So I have been wandering about the internet catching up. I came across this piece by Suzy Khimm in Ezra Klein’s ‘Wonkblog’. Let’s make it quick: Both parties in Washington are twittering on about how the drastic cuts imposed […]

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Obama is Scared

Dean Baker goes overboard. Well he suggests that Obama is failing to defend Social Security because of his fear of retribution from the policy elite. Baker is right. This is an issue that extends beyond Social Security. Many of us have been saying for a while that Obama is too beholden to an elite whose […]

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The Glenn Hubbard Scandal

There isn’t one of course. But there ought to be. In my mind, and I admit I am probably alone in this, Glenn Hubbard represents all that is wrong with the economics profession. Were there a scintilla of an ethical standard in economics Hubbard would be the first person disbarred. OK. That’s harsh. But allow […]

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