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Green eggs and chickens

<p>Can you make a dirty state embrace green legislation?</p> <p>LAST week, Brookings scholars published the results of an effort to calculate t...

The heedless Fed

<p>Pretty please, can we have some inflation?</p> <p>YESTERDAY, I linked to a Paul Krugman post in which he links to an old piece of analysis h...

Trade spat heating up

<p>Something in the China-America relationship has to give</p> <p>THESE stories are increasingly troubling:China denounced new U.S. anti-dumpin...

Link exchange

<p>The best of the rest of the economics web</p> <p>TODAY&#39;S recommended economics writing:&bull; On the price elasticity of America...

Government: Now hiring

<p>A new WPA might not be the best unemployment fix</p> <p>HERE is Paul Krugman:As it is, job-creation efforts are generally indirect. Tax cuts...

Rethinking the Luddites

<p>Can we handle rapid technological change?</p> <p>OVER at Angry Bear, Rdan posts something by Martin Ford, in which he ponders the issue of t...

Crank up the helicopter

<p>Is the Fed really helpless?</p> <p>PAUL KRUGMAN responds to discussion on the David Beckworth chart&mdash;tracking nominal spending&...

What can America learn from Europe?

<p>To reduce joblessness, target joblessness</p> <p>SEVERAL (though by no means all) of Europe&#39;s larger economies have come through the...

Higher and higher

<p>America continues to bleed jobs</p> <p>THE American labour market has opted not to keep us all in suspense, wondering whether and when the u...

Link exchange

<p>The best of the rest of the economics web</p> <p>TODAY&#39;S recommended economic writing:&bull; North America the most popular dest...