Worth our read. Unlike the Donald’s incoherent speeches, this article by Anthony Scaramucci, an adviser to Trump, makes a stab at some specificity. Some of it is interesting, esp. the stuff about tax reform. A real effort could give the GOP a place to hide otherwise off the box expenditures [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Economics’
November 14th, 2016 - 8:12 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Is There a Serious Thought Behind Reaganomics?
October 24th, 2016 - 8:37 pm § in Misc.
AFTER TRUMP: Repairing TPP and NAFTA
Want to help free trade’s ‘losers’? Make ‘adjustment assistance’ more than just burial insurance Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan Trade adjustment assistance, dubbed ‘burial insurance’ by those it’s supposed to help, needs to be significantly reformed so that fut[...]
September 22nd, 2016 - 9:44 am § in Misc.
Kshama Sawant Plays the Trump Card: Attacks the UW for studying the $15 minimum wage
“It is professionally irresponsible to draw such a conclusion from the data at this time.” Kshama Sawant The Seattle Times Reports: Professor Jacob Vigdor and other members of a UW team published a preliminary study of the effects of the $15 minimum wage in Seattle. Whatever good that has d[...]
August 2nd, 2016 - 6:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Robert Reich : Trumps’s good idea
Robert Reich FACEBOOK Unbelievable. Trump has actually come up with a sensible economic proposal. He said today he’d “at least double” the size of Clinton’s proposed $275 billion to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure – putting people back to work repairing America’s crumbling roads,[...]
May 10th, 2016 - 1:37 am § in Misc.
Campaign Economics .. an honest comment by Robert Reich
Greg Mankiw, a conservative economist at Harvard, lists (in the article linked through the cartoon) what he considers presidential campaign myths. He’s right about two of them, partly correct about two, and wrong about two. Here are the so-called “myths” Mankiw lists, along with [...]
October 23rd, 2015 - 10:04 am § in Misc.
End of the Middle Class
Goodbye Middle Class: 51 Percent Of All American Workers Make Less Than 30,000 Dollars A Year By Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream. We just got more evidence that the middle class in America is dying. According to brand new numbers that were just… WASHINGTONSBLOG.COM[...]
September 29th, 2015 - 1:03 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
A scientific analysis of the classical dilemma: Should the toilet seat be left up or down?
THE THREE BODY PROBLEM IN ECONOMICS* Richard O. Zerbe** Daniel J. Evans Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The Evans School A classical yet unsolved problem in economic efficiency, the three body problem, involves the seemingly simple question of whether or not the toilet seat should be left up or do[...]