These days the government seems to be telling us to spend, spend, spend — but isn't that what got us into this financial mess in the first place? Economics columnist David Leonhardt offers some principles for spending wisely.
President Obama, welcome to the center stage, the country and the world are expecting great things from you and your team of 306 million people. Please lead us all wisely. Barack Hussein Obama took office as the 44th President of the United States this[...]
Paul Kedrosky has observed that a statistical analysis (word cloud) of the American Economic Association session titles, or even of the papers, leads to the impression that the economics profession has been relatively uninterested in the ongoing financial[...]
President-elect Barack Obama will soon be naming Cass Sunstein, an old friend of his from their University of Chicago Law School days together, the new head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). OIRA oversees regulation[...]
“If it were possible to substitute credit expansion (cheap money) for the accumulation of capital goods by saving, there would not be poverty in the world”. (Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom) At The Times, there are columnists and there are[...]
Copyright © 2008 Eddy E. Visit the original article at http://www.se rvingbread.net/2008/12/19/finance-friday-37-wesleyan-economics-save-a ll-you-can-2-of-3.After having established the value of “gaining,” John Wesley (in his sermon titled, “The[...]
No big surprise here, but a German news magazine is reporting that Mercedes-Benz plans to begin building battery-electric versions of its A- and B-Class subcompacts in 2012, ---------- A-Class could be new EV from Mercedes. ---------- The Mercedes-Benz[...]
Cindy Cerquitella had the opportunity to speak with Javier Paz, a graduate of the University of Arkansas where he studied economics. Javier is currently working to found a new think tank in Bolivia, the Fundacion Nueva Democracia, which will work to educate[...]
There are some very inexpensive DVD players out there offering high-def upconversion for regular DVD disks, and at least one can be set to provide region-free playback. Upconversion of a standard DVD uses interpolation to add extras pixels so as to create[...]
Jon Hilsenrath has been named the new chief economics correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, according to an internal memo. He replaces Greg Ip, who went to The Economist. Economics editor Dave Wessel wrote, “We’re pleased to share the news that[...]
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