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    Greece: Odds and Ends

    June 23, 2011

    The deluge of news and opinions on the Greek crisis has surely exhausted all the options. I don’t intend to add much more. But I do want to say: Piling on more pain is useless. A default is both inevitable and desirable. Inevitable because austerity will push the Greek economy down and could easily create […]

    Economics / consumer confidence, consumption, deficits, GDP, home prices, jobs, recession, recovery, wages /

    Dispelling The Rubber Duck Theory

    June 23, 2011

    It’s hard to tell. The problem with a stagnant economy is that when news is announced there is a tendency to yawn and go back to sleep. That condemns us to further stagnation, but, as I have argued before, our elites have thrown in the towel. Either they don’t care, they haven’t a clue, or […]

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    Battleground Economy

    June 22, 2011

    There is no surprise. None. Today’s news that a majority of Americans say they are worse off now than under the younger Bush sets the battleground for the next election. Obama had better hope he is running against one of the more extreme Republicans – that’s a relative term since most of them are very […]

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