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marginalrevolution.com - 29 days ago
Impressions from Treasury
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I will enumerate a few (you can trace other accounts here): 1. Tim Geithner is very smart and he was conceptually stronger than one might have expected. 2. I believe that the long, L-shaped hallways encourage "visits to offices" rather...
angrybear.blogspot.com - 30 days ago
Finacial blogger impressions
— angrybear.blogspot.com — Rdan Steve Waldman at Interfluidity has written an impression of The financial blogger meeting with senior Treasury... officials of last Monday. He also provides links to other main posts by those who attended. It is worth a visit. (more) Finacial blogger impressions
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Matthew Yglesias:  Congress-Centric Governance

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Congress-Centric Governance
Matthew Yglesias — ... Why? Because even though Republicans were allowed to tack on a tax cut to the bill as the price of getting it passed, they decided to filibuster anyway unless they were also allowed to include an anti-ACORN amendment. Seriously. A bit of ACORN blustering to satisfy the Palin-Beck crowd is the reason they held up a bill designed to help people who are out of work in the deepest recession since World War II. Meanwhile Tyler Cowen reports back from a meeting at the Treasury Department: I worry less than did ...

Economists' best friends are at Treasury
SCSUScholars — ... Tyler Cowen, commenting on the big pow-wow between Treasury and some financial economists. He provides a link to other commentary. When I have worked overseas, when it's been the US government who issued the contract the agency was USAID, part of State. In my first long-term post in Ukraine I found the most reasonable people were the ones assigned from Treasury followed by World Bank, IMF and last, State Dept. That pretty much worked everywhere else too, with some flipping of IMF/WB depending on personalities. Certainly Cowen's b) point fits all my experience (in those ...

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