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20 Jul 2010, 10:50 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed, The 'Tax Expenditure' Solution for Our National Debt, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): The credits and subsidies that make the tax code so complicated cost big bucks. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 7:16 am by Adam Levitin
 Since the onset of the mortgage crisis, some commentators (starting with Martin Feldstein in 2008) have been discovering to their horror that a lot of mortgage lending is nonrecourse. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 11:38 am by Jonathan H. Adler
  The language of Judge Feldstein’s opinion is likely to reinforce that view. [read post]
12 Jun 2010, 8:45 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 He re-states what many economists have been saying since the crisis began (Martin Feldstein states it more plainly, as a matter of rational incentives in the public choice intersection between market and politics); Habermas sums up the problem of economic union without fiscal or political union in familiar terms: The financial crisis, which has developed into a crisis of the states, calls to mind the birth defect of an incomplete political union marooned in midstream. [read post]
12 May 2010, 10:08 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Extend the Bush Tax Cuts—For Now: Deficits Are a Real Problem but the Recovery Is Still Too Fragile to Choke Off Growth With Higher Rates, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): This is not the time for a tax increase. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 11:56 am by Paul Caron
List here: Gary Becker (Chicago) Martin Feldstein (Harvard) Greg Mankiw (Harvard) Jeff Miron (Harvard) Ed Prescott (Arizona State) [read post]
21 Nov 2009, 1:32 am by Mike Rappaport
  And, second, Martin Feldstein criticizing the consensus for using the wrong type of tax cuts and spending programs somehow doesn't count as, er, criticizing the stimulus? [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 9:41 am
Martin Feldstein offers the best possible two-paragraph summary of the health care problem:The American health-care system suffers from three serious problems: Health-care costs are rising much faster than our incomes. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 6:56 am
Feldstein 20/1 Christopher Sims 25/1 Lars P. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 2:29 am
Feldstein 20/1Christopher Sims 25/1Lars P. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 6:11 am
Others contributing a monthly column to Project Syndicate include economists Martin Feldstein, Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard, political scientist Joseph Nye, and Oxford University's Chancellor Lord Chris Patten. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 11:37 am
Reagan-era economist Martin Feldstein weighed in on the current cap-and-trade plan under consideration in Congress with an op-ed in today's Washington Post. [read post]
14 May 2009, 3:15 am
Wall Street Journal op-ed: Tax Increases Could Kill the Recovery, by Martin Feldstein (Harvard University, Department of Economics): The barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early... [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 8:20 am
DeLong then adds his Martin Feldstein kicker - the Geithner Plan is too small: The problem is that the Geithner Plan appears to me to be too small – between one-eight and one-half of what it needs to be. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 9:24 am
In that sense Martin Feldstein's Wall Street Journal column is instructive. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 8:13 am
Here is what Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein had to say in the yesterday's Washington Post: President Obama's proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation's charitable institutions... [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 6:23 am
Barro also notes sarcastically that "attacking Iran is a shovel-ready project . . . but I wouldn't recommend it," possibly undermining conservative economist Martin Feldstein's dreams of funding a massive military buildup with stimulus money. [read post]