Dollars & Sense blog

[FYI--May 1st came and went and our blog didn't explode as Blogger suggested it would...I still haven't managed to migrate it to eit...

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An NPR interview with Stanford economist Paul Romer today caught my ear. He was talking about his “charter cities” project. The idea is to h...

Reviewing Reinhart and Rogoff's This Time is Different in the May 13 issue of the NY Review of Books , Paul Krugman and Robin Wells ass...

We just posted material from the May/June, 2010 issue of Dollars & Sense , including Marty Wolfson's article on myths of the deficit...

In my most recent blog post, about last night's event at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, I said I'd wanted to ask James...

Chris Sturr, D&S co-editor, here. A few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend the "1,954th Stated Meeting" of the Amer...

Just posted to the NYT website: U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud By LOUISE STORY and GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: April 16, 2010 Goldma...

Today's items: (1) Taxes : Since it's tax day, it's time to dispel some of the myths around taxation. For this purpose I like M...

I will continue to post in digest form (multiple items) for a while—no luck on migrating the blog just yet. Soon, though. Here are this wee...