Ezra Klein Archive: Economic Policy
The government hearts debt
The ongoing economic crisis has been, in every way, a crisis of debt. The banks were brought down by mortgage debt. Wall Street -- and, quite nearly, the economy -- was brought down by leverage. But as James Surowiecki writes,...
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November 18, 2009; 7:12 AM ET |
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Worrying about inflation
The main argument of Bruce Bartlett's book “The New American Economy” is that economic policies that work for one set of conditions don't work for another, but that people aren't very good at changing their ideology when the circumstances...
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November 16, 2009; 11:58 AM ET |
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Peter Orszag makes the case for Germany
Conferences should have purple backdrops more often. "We don’t really have a jobs policy," writes Paul Krugman. "We have a G.D.P. policy." Unlike Germany, we have not prioritized keeping workers in their jobs. Instead, we've prioritized measures to increase economic...
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November 13, 2009; 3:50 PM ET |
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Are homeowners better people?
One of the reasons for subsidizing homeownership is the widely held belief that homeowners are good citizens. Ten years ago, Denise DiPasquale and I wrote a paper investigating the links between ownership and civic behavior. Controlling for income, education,...
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November 10, 2009; 9:31 AM ET |
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More on the home buyer's tax credit
I took some shots at the expansion of the home buyer's tax credit yesterday, but Steve Pearlstein really tees off in today's column. Good stuff. But it doesn't answer one of the arguments that came up in the comment...
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November 6, 2009; 11:48 AM ET |
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The problem, and expansion, of the new homeowner tax credit
In a 403-12 vote, the House overwhelmingly backed extending and expanding the new home buyer's tax credit. Where before only first-time buyers were eligible for the $8,000 credit, the expansion will make a $6,500 credit available to homeowners who have...
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November 5, 2009; 4:37 PM ET |
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