Numbers
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- How Much Have House Prices Really Fallen? Alex J. Pollock 04/19/2012
- If we could stop the government’s constriction of private mortgage credit, recovery could begin sooner rather than later.
- Fearful Symmetry: Six Decades of Treasury Yields Alex J. Pollock 04/04/2012
- Interest rates in the market for U.S. Treasury debt display surprising behavior—behavior that previous market participants considered simply impossible.
- Why Growth Matters More than Debt Steve Conover 01/29/2012
- The proper question is not how will America pay foreign creditors back but rather what will maintain China and Japan’s desire to buy low-interest Treasury securities from us?
- Just How Dangerous Is Talking and Driving? Thomas A. Hemphill 01/24/2012
- The NTSB, cell phones, and regulatory hyperbole.
- Cadillac Pay in the Land of Lincoln Andrew G. Biggs 11/04/2011
- Illinois public employees likely receive a significant pay premium over similar private sector workers.
- Obama’s Weakness in Historical Context Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg 10/13/2011
- On a variety of indicators, President Obama has far more in common with incumbent presidents who lost their bid for reelection than with those who won.
- Karl Marx’s Long Shadow in Eastern Europe Scott Shane 10/04/2011
- Communist political philosophy is still a powerful force in many former Soviet bloc countries.
- How Much Does the Federal Government Really Spend? Andrew G. Biggs 09/29/2011
- Much, much more than you think.
- There’s Usually a Banking Crisis Somewhere! Alex J. Pollock 09/21/2011
- Add together fundamental illiquidity and smallness of capital, and what have you got?
- The Soothsayers of Macroeconometrics Arnold Kling 09/19/2011
- Applying macroeconometric models to questions of fiscal policy is the equivalent of using pre-Copernican astronomy to launch a satellite.