Posted by Unknown | 12:33 AM

Y'all know I cannot resist wading into a good macro throwdown. First, a summary of the action!! This week's econ-blogosphere mayhem ...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:44 PM

I have not been surprised by any of the quotes that have recently come to light from  Ron Paul's racist newsletters . I grew up in Texas...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:00 PM

Two posts back, I explained why the " Great Vacation " idea doesn't pass the smell test . If U.S. unemployment had been caused...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:09 PM

"I feel a responsibility as a scientist who knows the great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance...I feel a responsibility.....

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Posted by Unknown | 12:11 PM

"I refute it thus!" - Bishop Berkeley Chad Stone explains the "Great Vacation" hypothesis : The “Great Vacation” narrati...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:33 AM

I'm very sorry to do this, but today I must hit Scott Sumner with the Bat Boy pic. Bat Boy is deployed whenever an econ blogger makes a ...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:42 PM

Dhammika Dharmapala is a law professor at the University of Illinois. My friend David Agrawal at UMich (one of our strongest job candidate...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:14 PM

Via John Taylor, today's "dog bites man" story : Why has the recovery been so slow? What can we do about it? Alan Greenspan, G...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:52 PM

Greg Mankiw has a good response to the walkout of his introductory econ course, which basically agrees with what I wrote . Peter Dorman, ho...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:27 PM

In the past few weeks I've had discussions with several different people about why financial markets are different from normal markets. ...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:47 PM

Peter Thiel has some weird ideas. He thinks there was a "collapse of art and literature after 1945." He wants to live on a floatin...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:29 PM

Finishing my dissertation this year has forced me to come out of my troll-cave and interact a lot more with my econ department. And that has...

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