Live from La Farine: Discussion - MCO425x | edX:
Let's start with Jonathan Martin of the New York Times:
Jonathan Martin: Forget What I Said. That Scott Walker Call? Never Happened http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/06...
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Ken Thomas: Middle Class Political Economist: Stephen
Moore (Heritage, of course) can't even get his cherry-picked data right: "If you have had the stomach to read the malarkey that the Heritage Foundation puts out...
...you have no ...
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As delivered in Harvard's Science Center B on Saturday morning:
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John Stuart Mill was perhaps the last who was substantially at home in and competent in all the branches of moral philosophy.
Afterwards young scholars paying their...
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
William Spriggs: Trying to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks: Last December, after a long period of keeping the Fed funds rate near zero, the FOMC voted unanimously to raise the Fed funds rate by one-qu...
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Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Gehenna: Let me, for one, say that I am surprised that the economic results of Laffer-
Moore grifter tax cuts in Brownbackistan have been so bad. I expected them to be bad. But I expected big tax cuts ...
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Must-Read: The fact that Bloom et al. think that exponential growth is the baseline and the rule is rather odd, as is the use of the word "harder". We have had 25 Moore's Law cycles since the early 1970s. That means that computer chips n...
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The odds are that some very evil people—I am looking at you, Steve
Moore; I am looking at you, Larry Kudlow; I am looking at you, Art Laffer—have been telling a very stupid president very misleading things:
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Paul Krugman: Goldbugs for Trump: "Stephen Moore and now Judy Shelton have long records of supporting the gold standard or something like it. This should put them at odds with his efforts to politicize the Fed.... With gold prices rising...
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1) Nick Rowe: What is it with Microeconomists?:
They are certainly not stupid. And they are certainly not ignorant either. I know that the ones I'm complaining about are smarter than me, and more knowledgeable than me. And that incl...
