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For a Good Retirement, Find Work. Good Luck.

with John Shovenvia New York Times
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Bill Neugent, an engineer in McLean, Va., is doing his bit to ease the looming generational financial squeeze as the nation’s 75 million baby boomers begin to retire...

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Energy Prices, Offshore Drilling, and an "Excess" Profits Tax

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Increases in energy prices sharply accelerated during the past year, as the price of oil more than doubled, and gasoline prices in United States rose by 25 percent...

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Egalitarian?

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Dew-Becker and Gordon write (HT: Arnold Kling):...

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Obama Change

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Tribune Media Services
Thursday, June 19, 2008

By this point in the presidential campaign, the public knows that a charismatic Barack Obama wants sweeping “change.”...

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The Bubble: Transcript

with John B. Taylorvia Washington Post
Monday, June 16, 2008

Washington Post staff writers Alec Klein and Zach Goldfarb were online Monday, June 16 at 12:30 p.m. ET with guest John Taylor, Stanford economics professor, to discuss their three-part narrative series about the U.S. housing bust...

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Gary Becker on Soaring Consumer Credit

with Gary S. Beckervia EconLog
Monday, June 16, 2008

He writes...

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The Bubble: How homeowners, speculators and Wall Street dealmakers rode a wave of easy money with crippling consequences.

with John B. Taylorvia Washington Post
Sunday, June 15, 2008

The black-tie party at Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel seemed a fitting celebration of the biggest American housing boom since the 1950s: filet mignon and lobster, a champagne room and hundreds of mortgage brokers, real estate agents and their customers gyrating to a Latin band...

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Borrowing and Consumption over the Life Cycle

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, June 15, 2008

The types of loans available to consumers have grown at unprecedented rates during the past 40 years...

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President for a day

with George P. Shultzvia San Diego Union-Tribune
Friday, June 13, 2008

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is never likely to be president because of the U.S. Constitution, but Thursday he played the role of chief executive with enthusiasm and energy, while he hosted a meeting with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet...

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The Fiscal Picture, Today and Beyond

with Alvin Rabushka, Robert E. Hallvia American Enterprise Institute
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Today, I would like to discuss three long-term realities implied by current U.S. budget trends and then examine the policy choices facing Congress and the president in 2009 and 2010...

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The Working Group on Economic Policy brings together experts on economic and financial policy to study key developments in the U.S. and global economies, examine their interactions, and develop specific policy proposals.

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