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Pandemics and Depressions

by Robert J. Barrovia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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...

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For the record

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Paul Krugman notes that nominal wages are falling for some workers...

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Brooks channels Hayek

by Russ Robertsvia Cafe Hayek
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

David Brooks, in this provocative critique of Republican Libertarianism, uses the insights of Hayek without mentioning him...

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FACTS ON POLICY: Retirement Accounts

via Hoover Institution
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Did you know . . . ? Retirement savings account for 35 percent of all household financial assets...

In the News

Opinion | Off-Label Uses of Drugs Should Be Approved for Very Ill Patients, Opinion Piece States

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

FDA and Congress "should protect physicians' and patients' right" to use FDA-approved drugs for off-label uses "and for the first time allow drugmakers to promote off-label uses that prove beneficial," Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, writes in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece...

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Central banks must target more than just inflation

with John B. Taylorvia Financial Times
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Did inflation targeting fail?...

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Dreams of a multi-polar world? Be careful what you wish for

with Niall Fergusonvia Lancaster Eagle-Gazette (PA)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The makeup of the "Ad Hoc Committee to Run the World" is changing...

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Letter: It's Not Just Patients Who Take Risks In Unorthodox Cases

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Cheers to Richard Epstein for stating the case not only for cancer patients but for doctors who put the health and quality of life of their patients first and ahead of the Food and Drug Administration's slow bureaucratic procedures ("Cancer Patients Deserve Faster Access to Life-Saving Drugs," op-ed, May 2)...

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Optimism Despite The March Of The Economists

with Niall Fergusonvia Forbes
Monday, May 4, 2009

Not in recent memory have economists been so popular, nor were more in the steady march of dispensing wisdom nightly on TV, in columns, installed as federal potentates, czars of financial recovery and as pundits, prognosticators and purveyors of wisdom--everywhere...

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Leamer on Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories

by Russ Robertsvia EconTalk
Monday, May 4, 2009

Ed Leamer, of UCLA and author of Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how we should use patterns in macroeconomic data and stories about those patterns to improve our understanding of the economy...

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