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Monthly Archive: January 2009
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Jan
27
2009
Is New Zealand fighting a wave of protectionism?
Protectionism is a scary thing during a global downturn. A bunch of nations trying to “protect” their own interests can turn a bad situation into a worse one. New Zealand wants to fight off what it sees as protectionism – namely subsidies for dairy farmers in Europe. However, although there is too much protectionism out …
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Jan
27
2009
Obama disagrees with me
No doubt people here know that I am concerned about any stimulus package that comes out without realising that “potential output” has taken a knock. I believe that people out there that are nervous about the stimulus package have the same concern in mind. However, it appears that Obama does not feel the same way …
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Jan
26
2009
A structure for our value judgments
Earlier I mentioned that Paul Walker and myself had different ideas surrounding the need for a stimulus in the US. Fundamentally I think he is completely against while I see scope for some stimulus. Over at Brad Delong’s blog he mentions a description of the stimulus by Kevin Murphy. The structure he describes is below:
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Jan
26
2009
Market panic: Should we trust it?
Mark Perry at Carpe Diem has an excellent post comparing the 1991/92 recession to the current recession in terms of “media reporting”. As he illustrates in his post, the constant comparisons to the Great Depression also occurred during this time – even though for the US it was a relatively mild recession. Although I am …
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Jan
26
2009
Arnold Kling on the economics profession
Arnold Kling from Econlog has an excellent post on the debates between economists. One of the best quote for me was: There are economists making the case against the stimulus in ways that I find unpersuasive (Eugene Fama, for example). But the economists making the case for the stimulus are not doing a very good …
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