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Or am I reading too much into the Washington Post editorial, “Step Aside, Mr. Rangel,” when it says:
At a time when President-elect Barack Obama is holding frequent news conferences to reassure the markets and the American people that he is ready to lead the nation to economic recovery, the last thing he will need is […]
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Barack Obama’s apparent decision to retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense is popular in the Beltway. One thing pundits admire is Gates’ talk about sacrificing expensive weapons systems designed for peer competitors to pay for the counterinsurgency campaigns that we are fighting. What Gates’ fans don’t point out is he has done little more […]
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President-elect Barack Obama has named former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to head his National Economic Council. Obama also wants to require employers to offer health insurance to their workers.
It is therefore instructive to recall what the head of Obama’s National Economic Council has written about employer mandates:
Economists have generally devoted little attention to mandated benefits- […]
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A Pew Research poll conducted more than a week ago found that 57 percent of Americans are terrified by Bailout Mania 2008. That was several days, and many billions of dollars, before Bloomberg reported that U.S. taxpayers are now on the hook for $7.7 trillion in bailout bucks — half of the nation’s entire GDP […]
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The recent privacy dust-up about Google’s Flu Trends service is interesting - and confounding.
Flu Trends is one of many cool things that can be done with data. By tracking searches that suggest the existence of flu symptoms, Google can identify influenza outbreaks about two weeks faster than the Centers for Disease Control, as illustrated by […]
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I won’t pretend to be the least bit able to keep track of who is getting bailed out how and at what price anymore. When we were talking about a nice, simple, $700-billion bailout of some type to someone, sure, that was easy to follow. But there’s practically a new proposal involving hundreds-of-billions of dollars […]
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Nice health care lecture
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