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Blog Post : The Latest on Bush's Third Term

September 11 2009, 6:56pm | Comments
Blog Post : Are video games an inferior good? and other questions

March 20 2009, 1:05pm | Comments
Blog Post : More on Moral Hazard

February 3 2009, 1:12am | Comments
Blog Post : The Banker's Depression

January 23 2009, 12:37am | Comments
Blog Post : Morning Economic News - December 18, 2008

December 17 2008, 11:34pm | Comments
Blog Post : If Cox and the SEC Were Private, Would They Be Found Negligent and Liable? SEC Chief, Christopher Cox has admitted that the SEC was negligent in its failure to follow up on reports about Madoff's ponzi scheme as early…

December 17 2008, 7:16am | Comments
Blog Post : What if Hank Rearden had run a hedge fund? Pretty funny: "Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis". Speaking of Atlas Shrugged and the current problems, here's the dastardly Jim Taggart speaking (p.…

December 15 2008, 3:51am | Comments
Blog Post : Arnold Kling on Solutions to the Housing "Problem" Despite all the wonderful analysis and insight from leading economists (see this at Cato, for example), I think Arnold Kling says it best in his…

December 11 2008, 10:12pm | Comments
Blog Post : What Annoys Me about the Current State of the Auto Bailout It appears the Senate is delaying the possible bail-out of the Detroit 3. When I heard this news, I wondered whether perhaps something sensible was…

December 11 2008, 9:23am | Comments
Blog Post : Two fine posts by James Pethokoukis

December 11 2008, 3:39am | Comments
Blog Post : A Counter-Cyclical Business When the economy tanks, one way to make a lot of money is to provide storage facilities for companies' unintended inventory accumulations. It works so…

December 10 2008, 11:31am | Comments
Blog Post : A new, hidden income tax

December 10 2008, 3:43am | Comments
Blog Post : My feelings on bailing out the auto companies . . . . . . expressed humorously by this "ad". (Via Felix Salmon at Portfolio.com.) For further discussion of the bailout, see this short video of Daniel…

December 10 2008, 3:31am | Comments
Blog Post : It's funny, but somebody could make the same remark about economists The distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson recently cracked that the existence of 10,000 string theorists is "sociologically dangerous". "One thousand would be enough," he's quoted as saying.

December 10 2008, 3:28am | Comments
Blog Post : More good arguments against the auto company bailout

December 9 2008, 3:30am | Comments
Blog Post : In what passes for a balanced article in the NY Times . . .

December 8 2008, 3:48am | Comments
Blog Post : Global Warming? Biases on The Weather Network The Weather Network in Canada often makes references to global warming and the human causes of the warming. I've written to them several times, asking…

December 8 2008, 1:20am | Comments
Blog Post : Rantlets: «Smart» liberals x2, pandering, bailouts x3 I'm wondering why the illiterate, inbred hicks of Arkansas managed not to have a single trampling death in 46 years of Wal-Mart history but the…

December 5 2008, 5:12am | Comments
Blog Post : Rantlets: «Smart» liberals x2, pandering, bailouts x3 I'm wondering why the illiterate, inbred hicks of Arkansas managed not to have a single trampling death in 46 years of Wal-Mart history but the…

December 5 2008, 5:12am | Comments
Blog Post : Opportunity Costs, Labour Markets, and the Military As the US entered a recession December, 2007, one market where the effects showed up was for military recruiting [h/t to Jack]:In 2008, as the…

December 4 2008, 10:56pm | Comments
Blog Post : Balance-Sheet vs. Income-Statement Solvency Nick Rowe presents a very simple example to demonstrate how a commercial bank might appear to be insolvent when you look at its balance sheet,…

December 3 2008, 11:14pm | Comments
Blog Post : As academics often write, "More research is needed"

December 3 2008, 3:33am | Comments
Blog Post : Downright Frightening Stephen Harper, Prime Minister (pro-tem??) of Canada, recently tried to remove federal funding from political parties. That move looked to many like a modern-day version…

December 2 2008, 11:58pm | Comments
Blog Post : 10 Reasons to Bailout Bloggers Instead

November 24 2008, 3:59pm | Comments
Blog Post : Rantlets: You read it here first, housing's ok, double standards

October 27 2008, 1:23pm | Comments

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