It's the five-year anniversary of the 2009 stimulus package. I've done a slew of empirical research on the stimulus in those years from predicting in advance that its impact would be small to estim...
One of the ways I will occasionally depart from straight economics on this blog is to defend fellow academics from unfair attacks by bullies. When the president of your university attacks you unfairly and in public, he is being a...
The $1.1 trillion spending bill signed into law by President Obama last month did not include a crucial change in the U.S. financial contribution to the International Monetary Fund.
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