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- Lessons from the Fall of Lehman
- Donald Marron submits: As you have undoubtedly noticed, this week marks the one-year anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers–the moment at which the financial crisis became a severe economic crisis. I did an interview on Fox Business on Tuesday to discuss some of the lessons learned. (My...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Real Cost of the Baucus Bill is $904 Billion
- Donald Marron submits: Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office released its much-anticipated preliminary analysis of the new Baucus health bill. I will have more to say about the cost estimate later, but for now I want to make one simple point: The media are systematically misreporting the cost of...
- External links 2009-10-08
- COBRA: Adverse Selection in Action
- Donald Marron submits: The November 2 Forbes suggests that health insurance under COBRA provides a clear example of adverse selection in action. COBRA is the law that allows workers who leave a job either voluntarily or not to continue participating in the health insurance they were getting from their employer....
- External links 2009-10-26
- How Much Is TARP Costing American Taxpayers?
- Donald Marron submits: How much is TARP costing American taxpayers? We know that Congress originally authorized up to $700 billion in TARP investments. And we know that $439 billion has been committed to various programs. But how much of that money are taxpayers likely to see again? And to what...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Google and the Future of Economic Data Availability
- Donald Marron submits: Google GOOG may eventually solve the problem of finding data on the web. Too bad its first effort reports the wrong numbers for unemployment. Since leaving public service, I have occasionally pondered whether to start a company/organization to transform the way that data are made...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Wolfram Alpha, Unemployment, and the Future of Economic Data
- Donald Marron submits: I’ve received a number of helpful responses to my post about the strengths and weaknesses of Google’s efforts to transform data on the web. Reader DD, for example, reminded me that I ought to run the same test on Wolfram Alpha, which I briefly mentioned in my...
- External links 2009-07-10
- Housing Boom and Bust More About Productivity than Bubbles
- Donald Marron submits: Many economists, myself included, refer to the recent boom and bust in house prices as a bubble, whose foundation lay in a combination of credit market excesses and human imperfections. Fundamentals certainly played a role as well, but bubble forces were particularly important. In a...
- External links 2009-07-13
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