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  • Published Obama: The President Who Wouldn’t Make the Louisiana Purchase (Blog entry)
    August 5, 2011 - 1:59pm

  • Published When Will Obama Sound the Alarm About Jobs? (Blog entry)
    June 10, 2011 - 3:28pm

  • Published Economists’ Moral Duty On Jobs (Blog entry)
    June 8, 2011 - 4:24pm

    Originally published on the SCEPA Blog

  • Published Geithner's Beltway Wisdom, On Stage In New York (Blog entry)
    May 20, 2011 - 12:17pm

    Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner came to New York this week to press President Obama’s case for a budget deal and taking action now to reduce the future budget deficit.   Sometimes it helps to be a New York writer.  A relative outsider to Washington, I was reminded again how other-worldly the economics debate in Washington now is.

  • Published Deficit Commission's Extreme Proposals Spell Disaster (Blog entry)
    November 12, 2010 - 11:35am

    The draft proposal released as a surprise yesterday by the two chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission is conceived and written in panic. It is a profoundly ideological set of policy prescriptions. The co-authors are counting on national alarm over the current budget deficit to make extreme proposals seem reasonable. It is an outrageous, misleading document, unsupported by evidence.

  • Published The Case For Big Government (Blog entry)
    October 22, 2009 - 7:56am

    America had been living a free-market myth for a generation until the credit crisis of 2008 and 2009 descended on the nation—and the world. One expression of that myth, found frequently on the editorial pages of the popular media, was that government does not grow economies, business does. In other words, government, don't meddle where you're not needed.