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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/23/2008
Don't know much about history
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Via Mark Thoma, Bob Hall and Susan Woodward argue against the multiplier effect of infrastructure spending by pointing out that GDP and military spending rose by about the same amount during World War II. Um, rationing? With the onset of World War II, numerous challenges confronted the American ...
Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
time.com - 12/17/2008
Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
— time.com — You probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch... about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and ... (more) Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008

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hnn.us - 12/17/2008
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— hnn.us — Liberty & Power: Group Blog Paul Moreno Obama and the "Second Bill of Rights" Have we given... up not just the Constitution, but the Declaration of Independence as well? An Obama presidency, with an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, could go a long way ... (more) History News Network

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Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
time.com - 12/17/2008
Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
— time.com — (4 of 6) Yes, Obama could talk — like nobody's business — but talk didn't win the... election. According to the daily tracking polls, the tumblers clicked into place precisely at the moment the financial hurricane hit, when the wizards of Wall Street ... (more) Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008

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Swampland — ... have retrenched to argue that the stimulus should focus more on tax cuts then spending. There is a highly technical debate going on between economists about why spending on public works should provide more stimulation than tax cuts for business and the wealthy. (In the classic textbooks, at least, the spending argument beats the tax cut argument.) It does not help the conservatives that their principal academic reference point to argue for tax cuts is an controversial interpretation of a paper written by Christina Romer, the expert on depression ...

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