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August 14, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
June 5, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
The U.S. economy lost about 10% relative to trendline growth. To make up the shortfall, we need to average more than 3% growth a year for several years...
May 10, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
If austerity is so terrible, how come Germany and Sweden have done so well?...
January 9, 2012 | Wall Street Journal
The euro can be phased out the same way Europe's individual currencies were. The bonds of troubled member states would benefit as a result...
September 11, 2011 | New York Times
It will not work to announce a new $450 billion jobs plan while promising vaguely to pay for it with fiscal restraint over the next 10 years...
August 24, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Food stamps and other transfers aren't necessarily bad ideas, but there's no evidence they spur growth...
August 8, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Reagan inherited economic problems and fixed them. Obama's strategy is to blame Bush and Standard & Poor's...
August 3, 2011 | Financial Times
The global crises of financial and housing markets are now being superseded by the new crises of governments...
July 27, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Obama's obsession with higher tax rates on the rich is not helpful...
February 28, 2011 | Wall Street Journal
Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty...
September 14, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Why cuts in marginal tax rates increase economic growth, but cash for clunkers merely created a boom and bust cycle in auto sales...
August 30, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks...
June 22, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Now the Democrats are peddling voodoo economics...
February 23, 2010 | Wall Street Journal
Over five years, my research shows an extra $600 billion of public spending at the cost of $900 billion in private expenditure. . . .
September 30, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
The global recession and financial crisis have refocused attention on government stimulus packages...
May 5, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
Here we are, struggling to find a way out of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, when along comes the possibility of a global influenza epidemic...
March 3, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
Central questions these days are how severe will the U.S. economic downturn be and how long will it last?...
January 22, 2009 | Wall Street Journal
Back in the 1980s, many commentators ridiculed as voodoo economics the extreme supply-side view that across-the-board cuts in income-tax rates might raise overall tax revenues...
June 19, 2007 | Wall Street Journal
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, helped create a revolutionary computer software company, and earlier this month collected an honorary degree from Harvard University...
Blogs
November 23, 2010 | Free Exchange (The Economist)
A LOT has been written recently, pro and con, about the Fed’s new round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE2. But, frankly, much of the discussion on both sides lacks a coherent analytical framework for thinking about the key issues. I try here to provide such a framework...
Interviews
September 16, 2011 | Street Smart (Bloomberg Television)
Robert Barro, an economics professor at Harvard University, and James Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, talk about the U.S. economy, the effectiveness of fiscal austerity versus stimulus and ways to spur growth...
August 2, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Co-host Larry Kudlow, CNBC and 77 WABC; Salena Zito, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; Robert Barro, Hoover; David Drucker, Roll Call...
September 17, 2010 | Bloomberg
Robert Barro, an economics professor at Harvard University, talks about the outlook for extending the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush...
July 23, 2010 | C-SPAN
Harvard economist Robert J. Barro talked about about his theory that stimulus spending by the federal government decreases spending in the private sector. Following his remarks, he responded to audience members' questions...
April 2, 2010 | Five Books
Barro’s critique of the Obama stimulus package provoked a sharp attack from Paul Krugman in The New York Times, which brought a spirited response from Barro. Basing his arguments on his empirical work, Barro takes issue with some common assumptions about the Great Depression, and how America got out of it.
February 19, 2009 | Tax Foundation
In this edition of the Tax Policy Podcast, we turn to the recently passed federal stimulus package...
February 20, 2009 | Tax Foundation
In this edition of the Tax Policy Podcast, we turn to the recently passed federal stimulus package...
February 1, 2009 | Economist's Voice
Robert Barro, Paul W. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard, questions the plausibility of large fiscal stimulus estimates...
February 5, 2009 | Atlantic Monthly
I spoke with Robert Barro of Harvard yesterday about the stimulus bill, fiscal policy, and related issues in macroeconomics...
August 4, 2008 | EconTalk
Robert Barro of Harvard University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about disasters--significant national and international catastrophes such as the Great Depression, war, and the flu epidemic in the early part of the 20th century...
July 17, 2006 | EconTalk
Russ Roberts interviews Robert Barro, Harvard University Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, on the economics of growth, what the developed world can do to help poor people around the world, and the role of US assets and the dollar in world finance…
