Stimulus

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Secret Creditors On Track to Own 10 Percent of U.S. Government Debt

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.6.2010 7:34 PM

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Paul Krugman Angrily Summarizes Months-Old Criticism of Paul Ryan's Budget Plan

Peter Suderman | 8.6.2010 12:07 PM

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Good Riddance, Christina Romer. Now How Will You Get Your Soul Back?

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.6.2010 11:46 AM

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What Are Economic Models Good For?

Peter Suderman | 7.30.2010 10:27 AM

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Wouldn't It Be Easier If We All Just Agreed that the Stimulus Worked?

Peter Suderman | 7.29.2010 2:50 PM

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Fiscal Effects of Government Spending, Or: What Macroeconomists Don't Know

Peter Suderman | 7.27.2010 3:36 PM

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California Roundup: $8 Billion Rail Project Results In Fewer People Riding Public Transportation

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.23.2010 5:40 PM

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Listen to Matt Welch on San Diego's KOGO AM 600 at 6:04 Padre Time

Matt Welch | 7.19.2010 8:40 PM

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Death Before Deflation

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.16.2010 4:49 PM

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De Rugy, de Rugy, de Rugy's on Fire!

Matt Welch | 7.16.2010 3:13 PM

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Economic Model That Estimated That the Stimulus Would Create Jobs Now Says It Did

Peter Suderman | 7.16.2010 12:38 PM

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Moving the Employment Goalposts on the Stimulus

Matt Welch | 7.15.2010 11:23 AM

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De Rugy on the Big Lie of 3 Million Stimulus Jobs

Matt Welch | 7.14.2010 1:01 PM

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Loan Mods Beaten Up By Loan Rockers

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.25.2010 12:28 PM

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Paul Krugman Now Laughingstock On Two Continents

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.24.2010 5:53 PM

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Stimulus Boosters, Listen Up: The CBO's Estimates Don't Tell You Whether Or Not the Stimulus Is Working

Peter Suderman | 5.26.2010 10:11 AM

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Fannie Mae: Now How Much Would You Pay?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.10.2010 9:31 PM

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Job Creation and the CBO

Peter Suderman | 5.7.2010 11:13 AM

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Where Do They Learn to Write Like This?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.27.2010 4:42 PM

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Coming Up Short

What Michael Lewis' The Big Short gets right-and wrong-about the financial meltdown

Anthony Randazzo | 4.26.2010 4:30 PM

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Shadow Inventory Gets More Shadowy

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2010 12:08 PM

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How Much Does Society Owe to People Who Don't Pay Their Debts?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2010 10:23 PM

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Dump the House, Take a Vacation, Just Treat Yourself…

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2010 7:39 PM

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Shadow Inventory Opens: Almost A Million Houses Headed to Market

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.15.2010 3:37 PM

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Nate Silver: Stingy Lunch Date?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.9.2010 6:45 PM

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Heckuva Job-Creation Estimate

Peter Suderman | 3.26.2010 4:29 PM

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Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act

How prevailing wage laws benefit unions at the expense of taxpayers

Damon Root | 3.24.2010 4:30 PM

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Bailing Out Big Brother

Media criticism goes from rebelling against media oligarchs to handing them a lifeline.

Matt Welch | 3.22.2010 3:00 PM

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Timothy Geithner: He's Way Smarter Than You, and He Could Kick Your Ass

Brian Doherty | 3.16.2010 7:37 PM

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Zombie Banks Well Enough to Go Off Life Support While Living Fight Over Canned Goods

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.11.2010 4:53 PM

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Five Lies About the American Economy

The Obama team's favorite slices of fiscal baloney

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.11.2010 4:30 PM

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The Myth of the Recovery

The White House claims the economy is on the mend. That's a fantasy.

Anthony Randazzo | 3.10.2010 4:30 PM

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Kollege Kockup: Something Is Not Right In Higher Ed

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.8.2010 9:42 PM

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Ein Volk, Ein Haus, Ein Shiller: We Need to Pay For Deadbeats to Preserve "National Identity"

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.7.2010 12:07 PM

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Created or Saved or Estimated or Assumed

The Congressional Budget Office's predetermined stimulus reports

Peter Suderman | 3.3.2010 4:30 PM

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Buffett: Way Too Optimistic on Real Estate Recovery

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.1.2010 12:12 PM

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Rubber Room Still Filled With Crappy Teachers Who Don't Teach, Continue to Draw Salary

Matt Welch | 2.24.2010 9:57 AM

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Another Way of Looking at the Stimulus's Impact on Public vs. Private Employment

Matt Welch | 2.23.2010 4:12 PM

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If Measured by the Retention Rate of Lousy Teachers Then Yes, the Stimulus Was a Success

Matt Welch | 2.23.2010 10:12 AM

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A Streetcar Named Stimulus

Jacob Sullum | 2.22.2010 5:19 PM

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Home Bulldozer: Pro or Con?

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.20.2010 11:20 AM

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The Case for the Stimulus: Oodles and Oodles of Jobs Saved, Created

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.17.2010 9:49 PM

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What America Needs: More Messages From Harry Reid

Jacob Sullum | 2.12.2010 10:39 AM

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Don't Break the Banks

Why Obama's plan to reinstate Glass-Steagall is a terrible idea

Anthony Randazzo | 2.9.2010 4:30 PM

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The Good News Is the Bad News Isn't Over

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.8.2010 7:45 PM

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Are All Jobs Created (or Saved) Equal?

NASA shouldn't be a jobs program

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.4.2010 4:30 PM

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All the President's Budget Assumptions

The 2011 budget contains more rosy scenarios than a romance novel.

Veronique de Rugy | 2.4.2010 3:00 PM

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Big Government's Cronies

The real reason politicians like complicated tax and regulatory schemes

John Stossel | 2.4.2010 12:00 PM