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- yeah, a massive 0.25 percent on the stock trades of the middle class. First, most middle class people have almost
- not that it's terribly important, but I actually did come very close to the peak in selling my condo. The
- Destor, i did warn people about the stock bubble -- beginning in 1997. if you just wanted to gamble and
- eds, actually I was doing everything I could to warn people about the housing bubble after July of 2002. I
- eds, the housing bubble led to record rates of housing construction and therefore a huge oversupply of homes. This is
- Bob, As one of those manufacturing boosting troglodytes, let me quickly clarify the position (or at least my position) on
- come on folks, I am no Bush fan, and he also deserves blame for not having tried to counteract the
- Shooter, so will they lower the value of the dollar against the yuan (i.e. stop "manipulating" their currency)? That would
- If house prices were not inflated, then we could have had zero down loans forever. the issue was the bubble
- Todd, I was actually trying to pose a somewhat different question. In the case of Fannie and Freddie the government
- Shooter, I think it's wonderful if people want to throw their money in the toilet, but I want to prevent
- Shooter, there is no bureaucratic nightmare here. Fannie and Freddie require an appraisal accompanies every mortgage that they buy. They
- NOFTT, I'm not as optimistic as you about the tax completely wiping out all the short-term traders. After all the
- It's great to see that we have so many big-spenders here. At a time when you have lots of nutballs
- Just to add to comments previously made (btw, I will claim priority over Krugman in having I told you so
- The Global Warming Lie Detector
- Greg Mankiw Argues for a Financial Transactions Tax to Improve Health Care
- NPR, the IMF, and the Global Savings Glut
- To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke
- Economists, Win Back the Respect of Your Children, Support the Third Stimulus!
- Robert Samuelson Calls for Eliminating Social Security, the Internet and the Wheel
- Health Care and Student Loans: The Bad Guys Are on the Run
- Systematic Risk Regulators and the Power of Arithmetic
- Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler
- Let's Make PPIP Fun!
- If Economists Knew Arithmetic, We Might Waste Less Money on Banks
- How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions?
- Two Lingering Questions for Krugman
- Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer
- Budget Deficits and Blow Up Dolls: It's the Economy Stupid!
