4 days ago by Mark Thoma

Alan Blinder explains: A Misguided Federal Reserve, or One That Saved the Day?, by Sudeep Reddy, WSJ Economics Blog: The most controversial presentation at the Kansas City Fed’s annual symposium came from ... Willem Buiter. ... Mr. Buiter slams the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of ...

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8 days ago by Mark Thoma

Robert Pindyck is interviewed on the candidate's energy proposals: A Q&A with MIT Professor Robert Pindyck, by Stephanie Schorow, News Office: This is the first in an occasional series in which MIT experts weigh in on the presidential candidates, their policy ideas and aspects of the campaign. As ji ...

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8 days ago by aaron

Following up on its more industry-centric work in the Wireless Innovation Alliance, Google is heading up an effort to solicit signatures via a new site called Free the Airwaves intended to generate public pressure on the FCC to open up more wireless spectrum. If the US is ever going to escape the cu ...

Aaron Shaw's weblog - fringethoughts.wordpress.com · 6 references

12 days ago by BAM

It is certainly hurting trying to manage living in a rural area and running two cars into town (a 50 km round trip) most days and often one at night as well in order to meet our work, family, sport, community commitments BUT it is about time that we and everyone else in the fuel driven Western world ...

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15 days ago by Mark Thoma

Thomas Frank on "The Wrecking Crew": On the same topic, Free Exchange follows up on the post below this one: ...I think it's absolutely necessary to think clearly about what has gone wrong and what ought to change. One assessment might be that Mr Friedman's ideas were fundamentally flawed—that there ...

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16 days ago by Mark Thoma

James Galbraith initiates a discussion of his new book, The Predator State: What Is The Predator State?, TPMCafe Book Club, by James K. Galbraith: ...There is a tendency, seen in Jonathan Chait's book The Big Con and Paul Krugman's Conscience of a Liberal ... to treat the conservative revolution of ...

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21 days ago by Blogger Bryn

From Geoff Riley comes this interesting post showing tradable permits in action http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/drax-feels-the-heat-of-rising-carbon-prices/ a) What is the market failure associated with Drax? b) To what extent does the article suggest that the tradable permi ...

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22 days ago by Mark Thoma

Jeff Frankel: Commercial Banks, River Banks, and Moral Hazard, Jeff Frankel: Quite a few economists are worried about moral hazard in financial markets. ... Of course moral hazard is a serious problem that lies close to the heart of the financial market crises. But I am not sure that I completely sh ...

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22 days ago by Mark Thoma

Can "too much ownership" cause gridlock and the "underuse and waste" of resourses?: The Permission Problem, by James Surowiecki: In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the ...

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23 days ago by joer1986

Right now we are in one of the worst times for financial institutions. A perfect storm has come about leading to a precarious situation for most banks and investment firms. While much has been said about the sub-prime market and the precipitous rise in interest rates, little is remembered of one of ...

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