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20 May 2014, 1:12 pm by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous posts on the new book by Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2014): Wall Street Journal op-ed: Piketty's Numbers Don't Add Up, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard): Thomas Piketty has recently attracted widespread attention for his claim that... [read post]
1 May 2014, 8:17 am
Among them were Don Martin, whose cartoons featuring bizarre human figures and distinctive sound effects — Katoong! [read post]
24 Aug 2013, 8:00 am by Raffaela Wakeman
A new organization spawned by Martin Feldstein caught Jack’s attention—The Economics of National Security Association. [read post]
31 May 2013, 8:03 am by Tom Smith
(He had done a turn the CEA as a junior staffer under Martin Feldstein in the early 1980s.) [read post]
10 May 2013, 9:59 am by Tom Smith
The Federal Reserve recently announced that it will increase or decrease the size of its monthly bond-buying program in response to changing economic conditions. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 5:03 pm by Tom Smith
CAMBRIDGE – Long-term interest rates are now unsustainably low, implying bubbles in the prices of bonds and other securities. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 1:00 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed: A Simple Route to Major Deficit Reduction, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Putting a cap on tax expenditures—those features of the tax code that are a substitute for direct government spending—can break the current fiscal impasse and prevent the dangerous explosion of the... [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 11:44 am by Steve Bainbridge
Limiting the tax savings from all deductions and the two major tax exclusions to 2% of an individual's adjusted gross income would reduce the deficit in 2013 by $220 billion. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 5:57 pm by Tom Smith
Inflation is now low in every industrial country, and the combination of high unemployment and slow GDP growth removes the usual sources of upward pressure on prices. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 12:00 pm by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Romney's Tax Plan Can Raise Revenue, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Mitt Romney's plan to cut taxes and offset the resulting revenue loss by limiting tax breaks has been attacked as "mathematically impossible. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 5:46 pm by Mandelman
This week’s show also features Talcott Franklin, the attorney representing RMBS investors… the solution to the housing and consumer debt crisis favored by Harvard professor, and former economic adviser to the Reagan Administration, Martin Feldstein, and even draws from words spoken by CNBC’s Diana Olick. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 9:58 pm by Sabrina
Fiscal policy and its implications for monetary and financial stability by Stephen Cecchetti, Martin Feldstein, Jaime Caruana, José De Gregorio,... [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 9:58 pm by tekEditor
Fiscal policy and its implications for monetary and financial stability by Stephen Cecchetti, Martin Feldstein, Jaime Caruana, José De Gregorio,... [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 6:05 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed, The Tax Reform Evidence From 1986, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): Experience implies that the combination of base broadening and rate reduction would raise revenue equal to about 4% of existing tax revenue. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 6:17 am by Mandelman
 And Harvard economist Martin Feldstein has said that 30 percent of U.S. mortgages are now underwater, which would put the number closer to 20 million… and he said that last June. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 10:47 am by Big Tent Democrat
Martin Feldstein writes: To halt the fall in house prices, the government should reduce mortgage principal when it exceeds 110 percent of the home value. [read post]