My priorities have changed, suddenly and unexpectedly. (You may have inferred that already from the recent lack of activity at this blog.) Posting here needs to drop down on my priority list for a while. Remaining high on my list,...
Topics: a2. Economics in Plain Talk

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[President Obama correctly says that robust growth is the only way to fix our current situation without raising taxes. That's what he says, anyway. Below is a condensed version of what my career taught me about growth, followed by how...
Topics: a2. Economics in Plain Talk

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[After submitting this to a discussion group as my synopsis of the difference between those two schools of thought on monetary theory and policy, I decided to tweak it a little and post it here. If nothing else, it might...
Topics: a2. Economics in Plain Talk

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Last Friday, the top story in the Wall Street Journal was all about how our esteemed politicians on Capitol Hill jumped all over Fed chairman Ben Bernanke the day before. It was the harshest public grilling for a central bank...
Topics: a2. Economics in Plain Talk

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At last! We have a political leader who has found a way to say “Deficits don’t matter under the right conditions” without becoming the target of ridicule and partisan barbs as happened to Dick Cheney. I consider that a huge...
Topics: a2. Economics in Plain Talk

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