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No Free Lunch Blog: February 2009
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Friday, February 20, 2009. Willem Buiter offers an interesting “Good Bank” solution. Monday, February 9, 2009. With all the unhappiness about the size and content of the stimulus, how is it that centrists have managed to force changes that address none of the complaints, valid or not, about the stimulus? First a quick recap of the types of complaints:. The Republicans complained initially that the plan was too large...
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No Free Lunch Blog: March 2009
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Thursday, March 19, 2009. On reducing carbon emissions. With control of the White House and Congress both in the hands of Democrats, combating climate change is on the agenda. The Obama administration seems likely to attempt to set up some sort of Cap and Trade scheme for carbon emissions, but while, I fully support the goal or reducing emissions, I hope they will reconsider their approach. Labels: Cap and Trade.
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No Free Lunch Blog: On reducing carbon emissions
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Thursday, March 19, 2009. On reducing carbon emissions. With control of the White House and Congress both in the hands of Democrats, combating climate change is on the agenda. The Obama administration seems likely to attempt to set up some sort of Cap and Trade scheme for carbon emissions, but while, I fully support the goal or reducing emissions, I hope they will reconsider their approach. Labels: Cap and Trade.
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No Free Lunch Blog: April 2009
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Wednesday, April 8, 2009. I was starting to think that the Obama administration lacked the will to impose tough solutions when they are necessary. Their recent treatment of the auto industry restored that hope. It does, however, raise the question: Why is Wall Street not being treated the same? The latest scheme to drive up the the price of. Etc) It's simply a terrible idea to reward failure in this way. There is a ...
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No Free Lunch Blog: Hazardous Bailouts
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Friday, February 20, 2009. Willem Buiter offers an interesting “Good Bank” solution. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Getting it right and getting it right now. View my complete profile. Chris and the Ricardianoids (Wonkish). Is Migration a Basic Human Right? Going up or down?
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No Free Lunch Blog: On the similarity between weight loss and balancing the budget
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Saturday, May 21, 2011. On the similarity between weight loss and balancing the budget. I've been meaning to restart this blog for some time now, but I've been pretty busy between finding a new job, moving, etc. Why now? Sometime thought has to give way to action. This is just that time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On the similarity between weight loss and balancin. View my complete profile. Going up or down?
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No Free Lunch Blog: Learning from the 1930s
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Learning from the 1930s. With all the talk about the 1930s: comparing the Great Depression to the current one, wingnuts trying to compare Obama to Hitler, etc. something struck me as I was reading Ezra Klein's recent post. On the public option:. Letting [the public option go] go will smooth the path to victory. But will it? Increasingly favors the latter. If the Republicans aren't willing...
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No Free Lunch Blog: August 2009
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Learning from the 1930s. With all the talk about the 1930s: comparing the Great Depression to the current one, wingnuts trying to compare Obama to Hitler, etc. something struck me as I was reading Ezra Klein's recent post. On the public option:. Letting [the public option go] go will smooth the path to victory. But will it? Increasingly favors the latter. If the Republicans aren't willing...
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No Free Lunch Blog: June 2009
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No Free Lunch Blog. A random walk through economics, politics, and international affairs. Sunday, June 21, 2009. Who’s afraid of a little inflation? Recently a number of prominent, mostly conservative economists have begun publicly worrying that the Fed’s unorthodox monetary policy will lead to inflation at some point in the not so distant future. Some alarmists in the media have picked up on this and warned publicly about the danger of hyper-inflation. At this point, I'm not entirely convinced that such...
