Sunday, November 30, 2008

Terrorists can't stand the best of us

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Suketu Mehta writes about how to respong to the Mumbai terrorists: "But the best answer to the terrorists is to dream bigger, make eve...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

John Taylor insists that Permanent Tax Cuts are the answer

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In doing do, he leans on the permanent income and life-cycle hypotheses. While these are totems of economic theory, they do not stand up p...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

FDR explains how liquidity crises happen

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Worth a listen. He had been in office for a week when he gave this fireside chat. 
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Public Works

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I watched President-Elect Obama's weekly address this morning on You-tube, in which he called for a massive public works programs to hel...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Brad Delong Blogs on Luck and Laptops

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Both of this posts his morning hit me where I live. Although Brad writes about blogger luck, those of us with tenure at good universities ar...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dick Cavett is a national treasure

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His piece on Sarah Palin is hilarious .  It also brings to mind: (1) There are many things about my parents for which I am grateful.  One w...
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Practical Greenhouse Gas Reduction/Transportation

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Today Duncan Black states that cars are useful things .  Duncan Black also lives in central Philadelphia and does not own a car.  Cars simpl...
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Bad manners

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I was on a panel of four people yesterday.  We were all told to speak for 10-12 minutes; one person spoke for 25.  It was the second time I ...
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In defense of mortgage backed securities

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Some time ago, Susan Wachter and I wrote an article about (among other things) the history of the US mortgage market. One of the points of...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

More on regional differences

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As much as I love California, I do prefer Five Guys to In-and-Out Burger.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

This morning on NPR

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I am interviewed about the mortgage crisis. http://media.vmsnews.com/MR.pl?id=111808-896263-U001574416
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Biggest Loser since 1950

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The New York Times this morning had a story about the unhealthiest city in the United States: Huntington, West Virginia . The story was dis...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Larry Summers for Treasury

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I met (as in had a brief conversation with) Larry Summers once. It was in 2000, and the setting was a cocktail party for business people in...
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Regional Attitudes

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This week I had dinner with a real estate executive. As it happens, he graduated a year ahead of me from the same snooty, suburban Boston c...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

I am Gloomy about the future of Shopping Centers

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At the Urban Land Institute meeting in Miami a few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on the future of retail real estate . The Quick Points:...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

On my Reading List for 2009

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Matt Kahn came over from UCLA to give a talk yesterday. He plugged his new book with Dora Costa: Social Science and the Civil War. Doesn...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I think I have a new hero

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Her name is Michelle Rhee. From today's WSJ : The school system is doing "an abysmal job," said Ms. Rhee, who has been on the...
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Transit Authority Thinking

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The person who runs Los Angeles Metro was on KPCC the other day, to discuss what Metro will do with funds raised through Proposition R--a pr...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008

Streets

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John Norquist was Milwaukee's mayor for many years, and he was a good one. One of the things I liked about him was that he was willing ...
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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Brad Delong explains why things will get better

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He writes : Here are the talking points for Obama-Biden administration personnel selections. They have the added advantage of being true: ...