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  • Oil prices are heading back up. From today's Wall Street Journal:…

  • So, what do you think it will be, inflation or deflation? Will we be Zimbabwe or will we be Japan? (I vote neither.)…

  • The Administration says it plans on cracking down on offshore tax shelters and avoidance. The target of the initiative is U.S.-based multinational…

  • May 6, 2009

    The Subprime 25

    A recent investigation by the Center for Public Integrity into the subprime mortgage debacle makes a convincing case that it wasn't perpetrated by…

  • Robert Barro, professor of economics at Harvard University and Jose Ursua, a Ph.D. student in economics at Harvard, have written a fascinating…

  • May 4, 2009

    A turnaround?

    A theme of this blog has been that the Administration's efforts are working to avert a greater economic catastrophe than what we've been though. In…

  • I was going to write an article about how ridiculous it was for the hedge funds that played hardball with Chrysler's debt–and lost–to complain…

  • Barry Eichengreen, economist at the University of California, Berkeley, is always worth reading. He has written a number of brilliant articles on…

  • I find these numbers stunning. They're from a paper by Elizabeth Brainerd of Williams College and Mark Singer of California State University….

  • Last night at Minnesota Public Radio Jeff Horwich moderated a discussion the impact of the recession on individual lives. I participated in the…

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