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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Consumer Behavior

November 1, 2009 | Wall Street Journal

Stimulus and the Jobless Recovery

With the news that GDP grew at 3.5% in the third quarter, it seems apparent that economic recovery is underway...

November 1, 2009 | New York Times (registration required)

Did the Stimulus Work?

Many economists attribute the rise in the gross domestic product in the third quarter to the $787 billion federal stimulus package approved in February...

November 1, 2009 | Kansas City Star

George Soros creates $50 million institute to spur new economics

George Soros will spend $50 million to create an Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) designed to reject traditional economics...

November 2, 2009 | City Journal

The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm

In 1956, the economist Charles Tiebout provided the framework that best explains why people vote with their feet...

October 29, 2009 | Bloomberg

Economy in U.S. Expands for First Time in More Than a Year

The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, propelled by stimulus-driven gains in consumer spending and home building...

October 28, 2009 | Irish Times

In the game for the best price

FOR THE average motorist, buying a car usually involves searching in the pages of various newspapers and on the web, before marching onto the garage forecourts late on a Thursday or early on a Saturday looking for a bargain...

October 23, 2009 | Economics One (blog)

Despite claims, data continue to show small impact of stimulus

Debate about the impact of the $787 billion stimulus continued this week...

October 24, 2009 | Economics One (blog)

And the Answer Is…Productivity

I teach Economics 1 with an “audience response system” similar to the ones you see on TV game shows...

October 23, 2009 | EconLog

SuperFreakonomics, II

As I work my way through SuperFreakonomics, I'm starting to take back my claim that it's better than Freakonomics...

October 22, 2009 | Business Week

More Oddball Tales for Freakonomics Fans

In their second outing, economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner have gone to even greater lengths to portray themselves as wild and crazy outsiders...