Numbers
Numbers - a new weekly feature.
- The Jobs Picture Crashes Into Debt Realities Veronique de Rugy 12/04/2009
- If President Obama is serious about the economy, he should start by tackling the debt and its cost before he thinks of adding yet more money to the deficit for job programs.
- TARP and Leviathan Alex J. Pollock 11/30/2009
- In the world after the crisis, how can we move toward reprivatization? Alternately stated, how can we put the enlarged Leviathan on a diet?
- Delayed Childbearing and Voting Behavior Michael Barone 11/17/2009
- The correlation between religious and moral values and voting behavior did not operate a generation ago.
- State of the Stimulus Veronique de Rugy 11/10/2009
- One reason unemployment continues to rise may be that stimulus funds did not target high-unemployment states.
- Not Your Grandfather's (or Keynes’s) Economy Arnold Kling 11/07/2009
- The complexity of today's economy means that old-fashioned Keynesian policies will not restore full employment.
- About That Stimulus: The Shovel Wasn’t Ready Alex Brill and Rachel Forward 10/27/2009
- Many 'shovel-ready' projects are still tied up in administrative red tape. It is clear that the stimulus bill has done little thus far to help get workers back to work.
- A Peek Inside the Deficit Veronique de Rugy 10/20/2009
- Yes, the recession led to a shortfall in tax revenue, but the deficit is mostly a product of enormous amounts of government spending.
- How Different Is Grandma’s Spending? Andrew G. Biggs 10/17/2009
- The inflation seniors experience is far more similar to that felt by other Americans than it is different.
- Have We Misdiagnosed the Crisis? Scott Sumner 10/09/2009
- What if the conventional wisdom is wrong? Some basic insights from modern macroeconomics suggest a very different interpretation of recent events.
- Why Milton Friedman Is Still Right Jerry Bowyer 10/08/2009
- Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.