- “yeah, a massive 0.25 percent on the stock trades of the middle class. First, most middle class people have almost”
Posted on Greg Mankiw Argues for a Financial Transactions Tax to Improve Health Care June 28, 2009 2:05 PM - “not that it's terribly important, but I actually did come very close to the peak in selling my condo. The”
Posted on I Tried to Warn Ed June 24, 2009 3:24 PM - “Destor, i did warn people about the stock bubble -- beginning in 1997. if you just wanted to gamble and”
Posted on I Tried to Warn Ed June 23, 2009 5:56 PM - “eds, actually I was doing everything I could to warn people about the housing bubble after July of 2002. I”
Posted on To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke June 1, 2009 8:31 PM - “eds, the housing bubble led to record rates of housing construction and therefore a huge oversupply of homes. This is”
Posted on To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke June 1, 2009 9:55 AM - “Bob, As one of those manufacturing boosting troglodytes, let me quickly clarify the position (or at least my position) on”
Posted on The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part II) June 1, 2009 5:46 AM - “come on folks, I am no Bush fan, and he also deserves blame for not having tried to counteract the”
Posted on To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke May 31, 2009 9:12 PM - “Shooter, so will they lower the value of the dollar against the yuan (i.e. stop "manipulating" their currency)? That would”
Posted on Economists, Win Back the Respect of Your Children, Support the Third Stimulus! May 29, 2009 5:22 PM - “If house prices were not inflated, then we could have had zero down loans forever. the issue was the bubble”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 5, 2009 4:47 PM - “Todd, I was actually trying to pose a somewhat different question. In the case of Fannie and Freddie the government”
Posted on Dirty No-Longer Secret April 5, 2009 8:58 AM - “Shooter, I think it's wonderful if people want to throw their money in the toilet, but I want to prevent”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 4, 2009 10:32 PM - “Shooter, there is no bureaucratic nightmare here. Fannie and Freddie require an appraisal accompanies every mortgage that they buy. They”
Posted on How Much Do We Have to Pay Fannie and Freddie Execs to Lose Us Billions? April 4, 2009 8:42 PM - “NOFTT, I'm not as optimistic as you about the tax completely wiping out all the short-term traders. After all the”
Posted on Europe's Leaders Must Say "Stimulus" April 2, 2009 10:41 AM - “It's great to see that we have so many big-spenders here. At a time when you have lots of nutballs”
Posted on Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer March 31, 2009 1:30 PM - “Just to add to comments previously made (btw, I will claim priority over Krugman in having I told you so”
Posted on Two Lingering Questions for Krugman March 31, 2009 1:16 PM - “Dan, The banks can do whatever they want, but not with the taxpayers' dollars. The Geithner program is a subsidy”
Posted on Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer March 31, 2009 5:47 AM - “Dan K, The government tells AIG to sell enough new shares to cover the $165 million cost of the bonus.”
Posted on Make AIG Shareholders Pay for the Bonuses March 18, 2009 7:56 AM - “Folks, The comparisons of unionization and unemployment rates between Canada and the U.S. and the U.S. now and the U.S.”
Posted on Unions and Unemployment: The Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act Gets Ugly March 13, 2009 4:33 PM - “Actually, there is no reason that the credit should not apply to benefits. This is a non-issue. I was just”
Posted on Quick, What's Wrong With a Tax Cut that Shortens Work Hours? February 16, 2009 12:48 PM - “The vast majority of employers do not pay for family health insurance policies, welcome to the 21st century.”
Posted on Quick, What's Wrong With a Tax Cut that Shortens Work Hours? February 16, 2009 10:35 AM - “you're right. I should have said "occupation," not "profession." I was thinking of people like dishwashers and custodians.”
Posted on The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security February 13, 2009 10:22 PM - “Sally, I was referring to economists who did have access to the media. which certainly fits the description of the”
Posted on The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security February 13, 2009 10:17 PM - “Sally, I remember debating an awful lot of people in the years 2005-2007 who were denying a housing bubble. Mark”
Posted on The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security February 13, 2009 6:16 PM - “There was no mention of wage and price controls in this post. You must be commenting on something else.”
Posted on New Thinking on the Economy February 9, 2009 1:10 PM - “El Presidente, If we worked to promote transparency in licensing requirements and eliminate restrictions that don't directly relate to quality,”
Posted on Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd February 6, 2009 4:30 PM - “Yes, protectionism absolutely is anti-poor. The most important forms of protectionism in the United States are for highly paid professionals”
Posted on Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd February 6, 2009 5:31 AM - “Okay, all the folks who think that a stimulus with a "Buy America" provision starts a trade war, believe that”
Posted on Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd February 5, 2009 7:06 PM - “Ohio Guy, Try thinking this one through. Suppose that Germany, France, Japan and everyone else puts in place a stimulus”
Posted on Buy America and the Knee-Jerk "Free Trade" Crowd February 5, 2009 9:30 AM - “Destor, I understand that Schumer might be trying to appear populist as he gets billions for realtors and the folks”
Posted on Can We Have Some Serious Ridicule for Charles Schumer? February 3, 2009 11:22 AM - “Syvanen, When I was saying that a law requiring that foreclosed homeowners be given the right to rent their home”
Posted on Evidence of Intelligent Life at Fannie/Freddie January 31, 2009 10:58 PM
