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Economics / free markets, health care, Mark Thoma, Martin Feldstein, rationing /

Martin Feldstein: And That Rationing Lie

August 20, 2009

Humph. Some people just won’t stop. Now it’s OK for an average peson to get into an argument about health care reform and make claims that a government plan will introduce rationing. But it absolutely not OK for a Harvard professor of economics and former advisor to Presidents to do so. “Repeat after me: all […]

Economics / foreclosures, mortgages, real estate, recession, recovery, unemployment /

The Mortgage Crisis

August 20, 2009

In my post earlier today I argued that the recovery would be constrained by the state of the job market and that we may well have two parallel economies for a while until the employment situation improved and sparked an increase in consumer confidence. The latest data on home mortgages seems to support that view. […]

Economics / health care /

Mort Zuckerman: And His Very Bad Analysis

August 20, 2009

Well, he may be a fine and upstanding fellow, but his views on health care reform are just shallow. After having sung the praises of the Financial Times in the last day or two I suppose it was only natural that it would publish a clunker. It duly obliged in the form of an op-ed […]

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