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Entries Tagged as 'Public Policy'
The holy grail of macroeconomics?
December 5th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Credit Crisis · Public Policy
Yes, that Chinese stimulus didn’t work either..
November 9th, 2010 · No Comments
It only saved the world..
Tags: Public Policy
Google’s overseas tax rate turns out to be…. 2.4%.
October 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Them loopholes, they are BIG… Bermuda triangles, Double Irish, Double Dutch.. Double disappear..
Tags: Public Policy
The UK experiment off to a rocky start
October 21st, 2010 · No Comments
While the French are going beserk over a rather modest pension reform, the British keep a stiff upper lip, uuh, purse in the face of unprecedented public sector cuts…
Tags: Credit Crisis · Public Policy
The right diagnoses of the US economy
September 10th, 2010 · No Comments
Interesting reed, but the right diagnosis is only the start, we have to have the right fix (if available) as well…
Tags: Credit Crisis · Economy · Public Policy
Primer on fiscal policy: it works, in the 1930s, in Japan, and now
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Surprise surprise. However, quantitative easing (QE), the main alternative, isn’t so promising.
Tags: Public Policy · Sovereign debt crisis
A really necessary lesson
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments
Hit’s a couple of favourite Voodoo economic thesis at once. We cannot recommend this article enough (especially at the people from ZeroHedge)..
Tags: Public Policy · Sovereign debt crisis
That Keynesian multiplier
August 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Nice graph with the effects of different policy actions…
Tags: Economy · Public Policy
Even über Keynesian critics Zero Hedge shares Keynesian diagnosis
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments
But without using even a single argument, blasts the cure..
Tags: Public Policy
Somehow, this doesn’t surprise us at all
July 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The economy plunged at least as fast as in the 1930. Then it stopped. What was the difference? It’s not so hard to guess…
Tags: Public Policy