stan collender in his weekly column for roll call posted on capital gains and games explains its not just a crass chicken dance hes talking about the reason that careful choreography will be needed is that instead of the oneact performance with a single highlighted dance that has been typical of the budget decisions of the past the coming debate ......
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supersizing imf isnt good for the world kenneth rogoff whats happening to fed funds zubin jelveh inve stingquot in aig et al interfluidity u.s. to push banks to step up lending washingtonpost.com its not all in the genes anymore nytimes.com the edge of the american west dormitavi ergo sum how to deal with housing spearking for galbrait......
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over on capitalgai nsandgames .com today andrew samwick makes the case for increasing the gas tax and pairing that hike with a reduction in the payroll tax rate that fully offsets the revenue increase. as he puts it at a very basic level you get less of what you tax and more of what you dont. looking at our longterm energy needs every little bit of energy conserva......
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over on capitalgai nsandgames .com today andrew samwick makes the case for increasing the gas tax and pairing that hike with a reduction in the payroll tax rate that fully offsets the revenue increase. as he puts it at a very basic level you get less of what you tax and .........
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supersizing the imf is wrong kenneth rogoff when can you trust economics papers felix salmon morris davis answers a question richard green how severe a slump in china brad setser keynes had no sure cure for slumps ft morning in america eugene robinson washingtonpost.com trades lubricant growing costlier nytimes.com obama has chance to make quick mark......
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web page addresses and e mail addresses turn into links automatically. allowed html tags lines and paragraphs break automatically. more information about formatting options free games by unknown......
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ezra klein says the financial crisis should not get in the way of health care reform. in fact the crisis helps to clarify the need to find a way to reduce the growth in health care costs if we want to continue to have the flexibility to respond to financial and other economic crises youve won now dont do anything by ezra klein bloomberg lays out the case for why the......
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saving the real economy francis bator should economists have acted like jorel stann collender saving wild salmon in hopes of saving the orca biography nyt new terrain for panel on bailout nytimes.com christopher cox reinventing a markets watchdog washingtonpost.com immigration wages more evidence stumbling and mumbling......
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with the decline in oil prices to a some what manageable level a few of the in the env ironmental ist movement have been gnashing and wailing at the doors of economic policy to tax the price of oil until it again reaches the price of arm leg . says pete davis from his neoliberal blog if you check back in the last paragraph of my june 3 post i warned that alternative ......
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the financial services community and state governments that are asking forbegging forpleading fordemand ingexpect ing help from the federal government seem to be assuming that washington will just go away after the help has been go to the authors original blog note to wall street once you invite the federal government in......
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theres no easy way out of the bubble vernon smith back to the great depression debates econbrowser in praise of bernanke economix tarp a simple model worthwhile canadian initiative taking hard new look at a greenspan legacy nytimes.com how to recapitalize the financial system greg mankiw bush administration needs credibilty capital gains and games ......
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i think this is right what we have here is a failure to communicate by stan collender several of the readers who commented on andrews post from yesterday said that the house didnt pass the paulsonfrank because supporters had failed miserably to communicate the need for the plan to those who needed to be convinced. im a managing director at a public relations......
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just how large is that 85 billion loan being extended to aig by the federal reserve stan collender explains its larger than the projected 2008 budgets of all but five federal agencies. its more than the 2008 budgets of the departments of energy and education combined. its twice what the department of homeland security will spend this year.......
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its great to have stan collender back in town from his vacation.a inathis week8217 sa8221 fiscal fitness column for roll call posted onathe capital gains and games blog here stan makes this lovely and inspired analogy ive just returned from a heavenly week in yosemite national park in california. as i typically rediscover whenever i visit any of the nation......
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the blogwatch is a weekly piece that is published on the nonpartisan web site facing up to the nations finances . stay tuned for more weekly nonpartisan fiscal recaps brought to you by billy hallowell and facing up. with the discussion primarily focused on both the democratic and the republican national conventions the blogosphere has been quite distracted. with that said we were ......
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the blogwatch is published by billy hallowell each week on the facing up to the nations finances web site. with budgetary issues on the burner this election season be sure to check www.facingup.org for information on how you can better understand public policy opinions as well as public opinion on americas fiscal issues. after all our generation is going to bear the burden y......
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milton friedman stood for freedom social political and economic. he realized that they are inextricably linked. if the government controls your job or your business dissent is impossible. he favored among other things legalizing drugs school choice and volunteer army. to call him or his political legacy right wing is simply ignorant and i mean that also as a technically accurate de......
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...nd rookie taryne mowatt winner of the 2007 espy female athlete of the year award and the glorys 1 draft pick in 2008 is living up to her advanced billing. sources thesoftbal lchannel.c om capitalgai nsandgames .com www.massiv ely.com......
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federal budget expert stan collender rightly wonders what happened to 15 billion in iraq money for which the bush administration cannot account but this story from fridays washington post which talks about 15 billion in spending on iraq that cant be accounted for properly or in some cases at all shows that the other stage of federal budgeting implementation is simi......
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i made a chart this is the kind of thing you do when you return from a long trip and are jetlagged. these are the 2008 research budgets for physical sciences in billions of dollars for the main funding agencies in the u.s. the department of energy nasa and the national science foundation. for helpful comparison purposes ive also plotted the 14.9 billion that has been mi......
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a roundup of economic news from around the web. more on oil on his economists view blog mark thoma uses the case of the rising cost of oil to show how difficult it would be for the federal reserve to pop assetprice bubbles. while i certainly think would certainly be desirable for the fed to pop speculative bubbles practically it will be hard to do and mistakes can be costl......
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a roundup of economic news from around the web. fed watch in his latest column on the economists view blog tim duy says an eerie calm is setting in around the fed. the feds hesitation to continue lowering interest rates and instead shifting its entire focus to reliquifying credit markets looks sustainable as the economy slides into economic stagnation. this is espec......
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by andrew gillen our new study a tuition bubble lessons from the housing bubble has just been completed. there have been quite a few new developments since we sent this off to get printed. pete davis provides a concise summary of whats going on first the mortgage crisis has driven investors away from securitized assets including student loans. that has driven up the cost of ......
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