Tag Archives: Greg Mankiw

Try selling this as a recovery

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Jorge Costales

  Link from the Greg Mankiw blog.

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Offshore Money, Taxes And Obama Apologists

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Jorge Costales

In the survival-of-the-fittest environment of blogging economists, a revealing story unfolded. What began as a practical lesson in corporate finance, ended up highlighting the hypocrisy of a key Obama cheerleader who is all for higher taxes, as long as others … Continue reading →

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How Expensive Will The Nanny State Become?

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Jorge Costales

One of the best blogging academic economists — Greg Mankiw — gives his perspective on the federal health care takeover: In the end, while I understood the arguments in favor of the bill, I could not support it. In part, … Continue reading →

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A Few Observations #2

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Jorge Costales

Rich Lowry on why Obama passed on commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall: Obama famously made a speech in Berlin during last year’s campaign, but at an event devoted to celebrating himself as the apotheosis of world hopefulness. He … Continue reading →

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Blogging Economists: The No Clear Win Zone

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Jorge Costales

Welcome to The Show: The Blogosphere in 2009 – the greatest economics discussion group that could possibly be imagined. As if the wealth of information available wasn’t enough, the Eco Gods threw in a financial crisis to spice it up. … Continue reading →

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The Mismatch of the Century: Spin vs Video

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Jorge Costales

Are you going to believe a bunch of grainy old videos taken on camera phones by the type of people who attend speeches and seminars about Health Care policy — which the White House does not denied their authenticity — … Continue reading →

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What if They Don’t Know How to Fix This?

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Jorge Costales

The ‘they’ in the post title are economists. While there always many schools of thought, the amazing thing about this current financial crisis is that we are truly in uncharted territory. Two of the most influential economist bloggers are admitting … Continue reading →

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Auto Industry Bailout Debate

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Jorge Costales

The chart comes by way of Greg Mankiw’s blog It’s fascinating to watch the auto industry bailout debate unfold. I have a natural aversion to arguments designed to pull at my heart strings, so if I see any version of … Continue reading →

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Robbers Caught on [CSPAN] Video

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Jorge Costales

I guess this is what lawyers call ‘evidence.’ It’s the equivalent of having a video of John Wilkes Booth sneaking through Ford’s Theater and having him stop to face the camera and slowly state his name and birthdate [5/10/1838] Tom … Continue reading →

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Rescue Plan as Viewed by Economists

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Jorge Costales

Forget Congress for now, whatever emerges there is a compromise of the least objectionable ideas. I’m curious about how the intelligentsia views what is occurring. The most respected university in economics is the University of Chicago. Economists there took the … Continue reading →

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