Tuesday, November 29, 2011

I now work for the Sol Price School of Public Policy as well as the Marshall School of Business at USC

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The Price Family gave a $50 million gift for the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development to be remained the USC Sol Price School of P...
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Why I think Raphael Bostic is more likely right about FHA than Joe Gyourko/AEI/WSJ

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A healthy debate has taken place between HUD Assistant Secretary Raphael Bostic and Wharton Professor Joe Gyourko on the financial future ...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Does slowing people down slow down the economy?

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As my family and I were traveling back to LA from my parents' place in Arizona this weekend, we had to stop at three checkpoints.  Each ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Remembering the date

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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do...
Monday, November 21, 2011

More four year degrees won't solve the current problem

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David Brooks and Thomas Friedman have recently taken to arguing that the solution to our income distribution woes is to encourage and enab...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Raphael Bostic takes on Joe Gyourko

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The Assistant Secretary of PDR (and USC colleague) writes : This week, HUD released its annual report to Congress on the financial status...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Read CRL on Disparities in Mortgage Lending

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The Center for Responsible Lending's research team of Carolina Reid (who has been working tirelessly at developing data on subprime mort...
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Holmen Jenkins makes me spit out my coffee this morning.

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He spins this scenario : Take this case: Workers in a rail yard see men in suits prowling around. Rumors fly the company is being sold. O...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Sometimes you have to hold your nose

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Reporter Jim Puzzanghera  of the LA Times asked me today whether I would restore conforming loan limits in certain high cost areas to their ...

Harry Frankfurt and Herman Cain

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The Washington Post sends me to a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal interview with Herman Cain on Libya. Watching the cringe inducing answers ...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

David Barker writes that Congress is indeed subject to insider trading laws

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He points me to a paper by Donna Nagy .  I will be curious to see if a prosecutor does anything with it.
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Why on earth is Congress exempt from insider trading rules?

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Just asking.
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Tyler Cowen channels Mr Potter

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Tyler Cowen writes about how more income inequality will lead to more hard work and discipline . Mr. Potter agrees.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Prescience of Rudiger Dornbusch

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As events have unfolded in Europe over the past year, I keep thinking back to an article written by Rudiger Dornbusch in Foreign Affairs .  ...

I know this makes me elitist, but...

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...people running for president should actually know stuff.  Jon Huntsman does, which seems to disqualify him immediately.
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Friday, November 11, 2011

What's the real difference between Brookings and AEI?

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With Brookings, I need to read the study to know how it turns out. With AEI, I don't need to read the study to know how it turns out. 
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Do Richwine and Briggs show that, on average, teachers are overpaid? I don't think so. (Warning: a little wonky)

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A recent study by John Richwine and Andrew Biggs of the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute purports to show that tea...
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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Pulling out David Min's Graph from Mike Konczal's piece

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Beyond reproducing Mike's post, I want to underline this graph from David Min: This punches a hole in the argument that Pinto and Wall...
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Mike Konczal gives Six Reasons not to believe the meme that Fannie and Freddie caused the crisis

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Reproduced with his kind permission : 1. Private markets caused the shady mortgage boom : The first thing to point out is that the both th...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

It is time to kill California High Speed Rail

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Lisa Schweitzer notes that the cost estimate has been raised to nearly $100 billion (which she says still might understate the cost). Let...