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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Latest Data Suggest Output Gap is Closing but Employment Gap is Closing Faster

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The latest GDP data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis indicate that the output gap narrowed in Q4 2011 at a slightly more rapid pace t...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Candidates' Budget Plans Don't Add Up and Other Links for your Classroom

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The bipartisan Committee for a Responsibe Federal Budget has published a new analysis of the fiscal policy plans of the GOP presidentia cand...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

When Does “It Will Hurt the Poor” Outweigh “It’s Good for the Environment?”

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“Nearly every environmental policy hurts the poor the most,” say Iain Murray and David Bier of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Writin...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Updated Seasonal Factors Remove Much of the Volatility from 2011 Monthly CPI Data

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2011 was a roller coaster ride for U.S. consumer price inflation—or was it? If you went by the releases from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Reforming the Payroll Tax: We Need more than another Temporary Cut. We Need a Permanent Fix

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President Obama’s 2013 budget includes a proposal to extend the current 2 percent payroll tax cut, first put in place last year, for the ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Why Joe Nocera is Wrong about Keystone XL

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Last week Joe Nocera of the New York Times wrote two columns in defense of the Keystone XL pipeline. Read my two-part guest post on Think P...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Latest Economic Data Begin to Shift the Counterfactual in Favor of Democrats

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For all of last year, as the parties tested their rhetoric in the early stages of the election campaign, Democrats were stuck in the unenv...