I am too sick to my stomach to comment again: Marginal Revolution University has been Banned in Minnesota! by Alex Tabarrok on October 19, 2012 at 10:58 am in Economics, Law, Web/Tech | Permalink Minnesota has banned MRUniversity and other online education services from providing content to Minnesota residents. This seems like a joke but it is not from The Onion. Coursera, one of the larger players […]
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Someone clearly is. David Henderson points out that this tax “analysis” implies that for a typical family earning $75,000 that the average tax deductions claimed are over $26,000. Here is one excerpt: Taxpayers thinking they will get a tax cut from the Romney plan would be advised to check their tax returns first. According to data released […]
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Posted in Macroeconomics on Oct 19th, 2012
I told my students that Romney looked pretty foolish for going too hard on Obama’s economic record on the recovery data alone, given that I was very persuaded by Reinhardt and Rogoff’s excellent book (it’s an empirical study of 800 years of business downturns and they find that recoveries after financial crises seem to be […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2012
Pre-Post UPDATE: Since I last posted about Climate Change and the Consensus, I actually forgot to add one more element that is strangely NOT part of the consensus (it’s not important as far as I am concerned, but relevant given the marketing of the stuff you will read about down below). What is that? It […]
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