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  • U of Michigan’s Wolfers Referees Reinhart-Rogoff Debate (Audio)

    Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan professor of economics and public policy and Bloomberg View columnist, discusses his op-ed "Refereeing the Reinhart-Rogoff Debt Debate" which looks at the "academic firestorm" sparked by the discovery of an error in a research paper by Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. Wolfers speaks with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg Radio's "The Hays Advantage."

  • Reinhart-Rogoff on Debt and Growth: Fake but Accurate?

    Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have not given a satisfying defense against the accusation that their blockbuster 2010 paper on growth is built on a data error.

  • Simpson-Bowles Prod Congress Again to Anti-Deficit Fervor

    Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the deficit-reduction duo, are trying to rekindle congressional interest in a $2.5 trillion package of spending cuts and tax increases with new details showing how it could work.

  • Proving Greenspan Wrong Shows Why Rey Became Worthy to Bernanke

    Helene Rey made a side trip on her way to the hospital to give birth to her daughter in September 2006: She stopped off at the main office of London Business School, where she teaches economics, to turn in a report on a doctoral defense.

  • Low Inflation Alone Can’t Deliver Promised Land

    Cleaning up after the housing bubble burst seven years ago turned out to be a lot harder than the Federal Reserve imagined. And for a while, it seemed as if the cost of risk-taking run amok was enough to put the fear of God in central bankers.

  • Higher Bank Equity Is in the Public Interest

    In their important new book, “The Bankers’ New Clothes,” Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig challenge a cherished belief of people who run big banks: Equity is “expensive” and requiring banks to fund themselves with more equity (relative to their debts) will somehow slow the economy.

  • Stop the Fiscal War Against Our Children Now: Laurence Kotlikoff

    Our war in Afghanistan may be ending, but our war against our children continues in full force.

  • Inflation Lurks as Stealth Tax on Top of Form 1040

    Inflation is sometimes referred to as a hidden tax. Unlike other taxes, it doesn’t require legislation by Congress or the states. It doesn’t merit a line item on the 1040 federal income-tax form many Americans will file this week. And it doesn’t appear on the bottom of sales’ receipts as a percentage markup on the things we buy.

  • Yale-Bound Hess Seeks U.S. Chess Title as Wall Street Beckons

    Robert Hess, who interned at a hedge fund in 2008 and will attend Yale University in August, will try to see the future over the next seven days -- on a chessboard.

  • Greek Contagion Myth Masks Real Europe Crisis: Caroline Baum

    Greece sneezes and Portugal catches a cold. Portugal coughs and Spain falls ill. Spain runs a fever and Italy comes down with the flu.

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