Author: Craig Newmark

Associate Professor of Economics, North Carolina State Univ.

One of the knocks against Americans . . .

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. . . is that we should be more “sophisticated”. You know, like Europeans. Particularly the French. Well, excusez-moi,: count me out. “The Rust Belt of France: Montpellier“. And that’s kind of what the French do; they play deaf and blind to the glaring social problems around them, preferring instead to think of their country in […]

 

Now we’re talking!

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L.A. retailer develops: fried chicken and waffle ice cream. So how is it? It’s rich, buttery and slightly crunchy, with a distinctive tang of salt and maple syrup on the finish. If scientists invented a substance that could slap all the junk food-loving portions of your cerebellum at once, it might be something like this.

 

“Government doesn’t give tax cuts, it takes more or less taxes”

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Keith Hennessey: The President’s language puts us on a slippery slope. Under this approach we treat all: tax revenues as if they originate within the government. : We create moral parity between giving tax cuts and increasing government spending. : We trust government officials to reallocate society’s resources to those whom they determine most need it while ignoring […]