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    The Brookings Institution explains how to bend the cost curve on health care.
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    The Congressional Research Service has a report on setting and valuing health benefits. Believe me when I say this will be important.
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    This Wired article on the placebo effect -- and the fact that it's getting stronger -- is long enough to be a think tank report. It's also awesome.
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Ezra Klein Archive: Economy

Adverse selection in the credit card market?

It's been a bad year for the credit card business. A sharp recession means consumers aren't paying back their loans. New regulations mean old avenues for profit are blocked off. The result, as the New York Times reports today, is...

By Ezra Klein  |  November 10, 2009; 1:09 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (5)
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Recession Graphs

Catherine Rampell rounds up some good charts on the state of the economy. And by "good," I mean "depressing, but visually attractive." The first comes from the Atlanta Federal Reserve and concerns part-time workers. There are two types of part-time...

By Ezra Klein  |  October 12, 2009; 5:42 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
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The End of the Man-Cession

With men accounting for three-quarters of recent layoffs, there's been some talk of a "Man-cession." Christopher Swann of Reuters has a great column explaining the phenomenon: [R]ecessions are almost always man-cessions. In 2001, the most recent downturn, women accounted...

By Ezra Klein  |  October 8, 2009; 10:48 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
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Is the Jobs Picture Worse Than We Thought?

That graph is from Calculated Risk. Most of it is familiar. The different lines track the job losses from different recessions. The plunging red line is the current recession. But the dotted red line -- the one plunging faster...

By Ezra Klein  |  October 5, 2009; 10:26 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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The Personal, Unfair Recession

That graph comes from a sobering survey released by the Economic Policy Institute. There's a tendency to talk of joblessness as a "lagging indicator," which is pretty bloodless. As pollster Geoff Garin said, however, this is a very personal...

By Ezra Klein  |  September 30, 2009; 3:23 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (11)
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Department of Corrections

Kevin Drum is right and I am wrong: Ezra Klein surveys yesterday's report from the Census Bureau and says: "Median income dropped a bit, poverty rose a bit, and so too did the number of Americans without health insurance. But...

By Ezra Klein  |  September 11, 2009; 2:46 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (4)
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Older Entries in This Category »

Why Does the Government Hate Renters?, Ezra Klein , September 9, 2009
Back-to-School Disappointment, Ezra Klein , September 2, 2009
July's Happy Job Numbers, Ezra Klein , August 7, 2009
Worth Thinking About, Ezra Klein , July 10, 2009
WWVS (What Would Veblen Say?), Ezra Klein , July 8, 2009
The Lost Decade, Ezra Klein , June 24, 2009
 
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