Category: Op Ed

Anschluss Economics - The Germans Launch A Blitzkrieg on the Greek Debt Negotiations

February 4th, 2012
in Op Ed

by Guest Author Marshall Auerback News stories continue to suggest that Greece once again appears on the verge of reaching a deal with its private sector creditors on how much of a loss they would be willing to accept on their bond holdings. The latest… more »

Freedom of the Press in America and in China

February 3rd, 2012
in Op Ed

by Frank Li This is the third article of the series: “Towards An Ideal Form of Government”. Is there freedom of the press in America? Yes. But it has not been realized until recently when the Internet finally made it possible. Before that, freedom… more »

The Re-reincarnation of Keynesian Economics

February 2nd, 2012
in Op Ed

by Dirk Ehnts The above is (almost) the title of a NBER working paper by Gregory Mankiw from 1991. It highlights the susbstantial difference between new Keynesian economics and the convictions of early Keynesians, he writes in the abstract. In the pape… more »

Holder and Obama Propaganda is “Belied by a Troublesome Little Thing Called Facts”

February 1st, 2012
in Op Ed

by William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives The Obama administration’s record of prosecuting elite financial frauds is worse than the Bush administration’s record, which is a very large statement. Syracuse University’s TRAC issued a report on Nove… more »

On Economists and Psychopaths

January 31st, 2012
in Op Ed

by Guest Author Tim Iacono After reading through some of the recently released transcripts from the 2006 Federal Reserve policy meetings, it occurred to me for about the thousandth time that economists are particularly ill-suited to oversee an economy… more »

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