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• Is the Dismal Science Really a Science? (March 1, 2010)
  Wall Street Journal
  by Russell Roberts
  For an economist, these are the best of times and the worst of times. . . .
• Economic Whodunit (February 23, 2010)
  Creators Syndicate
  by Thomas Sowell
  During bad times, the blame game is the biggest game in Washington. . . .
• The Stimulus Evidence One Year On (February 23, 2010)
  Wall Street Journal
  by Robert J. Barro
  Over five years, my research shows an extra $600 billion of public spending at the cost of $900 billion in private expenditure. . . .
• Letters: Congress Should Implement the Volcker Rule for Banks (February 22, 2010)
  Wall Street Journal
  by George P. Shultz
  We who have served as secretary of the Treasury in both Republican and Democratic administrations write in support of the proposed legislation to prohibit certain proprietary activities of commercial banking organizations—the so-called Volcker rule, as part of needed financial reform ("It's Time for Financial Reform Plan C," by Alan Blinder, op-ed, Feb. 16). . . .
• A Greek crisis is coming to America (February 12, 2010)
  Financial Times
  by Niall Ferguson
  It began in Athens. . . .

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• One Economist's Solution for Financial Reform (March 17, 2010)
  Motley Fool
  interview with featured guest John B. Taylor
  It’s been a year and a half since the banking system came crashing down in the fall of 2008, forcing Merrill Lynch into the arms of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Wachovia to Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), and Washington Mutual to JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM). . . .
• An Exit Rule for Monetary Policy (February 10, 2010)
  Economics One (blog)
  by John B. Taylor
  This paper was originally prepared for a hearing at the House Committee on Financial Services on “Unwinding Emergency Federal Reserve Liquidity Programs and Implications for Economic Recovery,” where I was invited to be a witness. . . .
• Analysing the impact of the Fed’s mortgage-backed securities purchase (January 29, 2010)
  VoxEu.org (Centre for Economic Policy Research)
  by John B. Taylor
  There is an ongoing policy debate about when and at what speed the Federal Reserve Bank should reduce its portfolio of mortgage-backed securities (MBS). . . .
• India holds the keys to success: Niall Ferguson (January 25, 2010)
  Economic Times (India)
  interview with featured guest Niall Ferguson
  The academic historian at Harvard University speaks to ET on the sidelines of the Jaipur Literary Festival. . . .
• Why Niall Ferguson is still bearish (November 24, 2009)
  Globe and Mail (Canada)
  interview with featured guest Niall Ferguson
  Harvard University financial historian Niall Ferguson has climbed to the head of the doom brigade – and the bestseller lists – with his strong views, clear prose and prescient pronouncements about the global financial crisis. . . .

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• Was the “Considerable Period” or the “Measured Pace” More At Fault? (March 17, 2010)
  Economics One (blog)
  by John B. Taylor
  In his recent review in The New York Review of Books of my book Getting Off Track, Roger Alcaly makes a very interesting point about the “too low for too long” hypothesis, according to which the Fed helped cause the housing boom. . . .
• A Better use of TARP Funds (March 15, 2010)
  Thoughtful Ideas
  by Alvin Rabushka
  TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008, to deal with the financial crisis. . . .
• The Long-Term Unemployed: Consequences and Possible Cures (March 15, 2010)
  Becker-Posner Blog
  by Gary S. Becker
  Greater unemployment is a casualty of every recession, and the so-called Great Recession is clearly no exception. . . .
• Why Did Macro Policy in Emerging Market Countries Improve? (March 3, 2010)
  Economics One (blog)
  by John B. Taylor
  The resilience of emerging market economies severely hit by the panic of 2008 is amazing, especially in comparison with the long emerging market crisis period of a decade ago. . . .
• Barro On Stimulus (March 2, 2010)
  National Journal
  by Charles Calomiris
  this blog mentions Robert J. Barro
  Using his original research on fiscal multipliers, Harvard economist Robert Barro argues in the Wall Street Journal that the Obama stimulus will actually lower gross domestic product by a large amount. . . .

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• Glenn Beck: Is U.S. Doomed to Follow Greece Into Crisis? (February 16, 2010)
  Fox News
  interview with featured guest Niall Ferguson
  This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," February 11, 2010. . . .
• Hoover Press: Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them, Edited by Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz, and John B. Taylor (February 10, 2010)
  Business Wire
  this item mentions Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz, and John B. Taylor
  What are the dangers of continuing government bailouts? . . .
• Bernanke plots exit plan (February 10, 2010)
  John Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, explains on CNBC’s Kudlow Report how the Federal Reserve can implement a rational exit strategy (or rule) so that reducing reserves and raising interest rates will not harm the economy.
• Hoover Press: Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them, Edited by Kenneth E. Scott, George P Shultz, and John B. Taylor (February 9, 2010)
  by Hoover Institution
  What are the dangers of continuing government bailouts? Are there alternative strategies to both resolve the current bailout problem and prevent future crises?
• Harvard's Ferguson Interview on Deficit Concerns (February 8, 2010)
  Bloomberg
  interview with featured guest Niall Ferguson
  Harvard University Professor Niall Ferguson talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about Greece's fiscal problems and the risk of debt contagion spreading through the euro-zone and to the U.S. Ferguson also discusses the U.S. jobs report for January. . . .

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