The video of the John Stossel show for February 28 has now been released and is here. In the fourth segment, starting at about the 26:00 point, Veronique de Rugy discusses France’s failure to cut government spending and I talk about Canada’s success from the mid-1990s on.
Mar 16 2013
Tyler Cowen's latest New York Times column, "A Profession with an Egalitarian Core," is one of the best short pieces he's written in the last year or so. HIs overall point is that economists have been on the forefront in caring about everyone's rights and that we shouldn't abandon that noble tradition today. Here's s...
Mar 16 2013
Scott Sumner has a first-rate post this morning and one of the most important ones you can read if you want a quick look at why real changes in the economy rarely cause large business cycles. Here are the first three paragraphs: I've been thinking about how to teach monetary economics from the beginning. Perhaps befo...
Mar 15 2013
The video of the John Stossel show for February 28 has now been released and is here. In the fourth segment, starting at about the 26:00 point, Veronique de Rugy discusses France's failure to cut government spending and I talk about Canada's success from the mid-1990s on.
READER COMMENTS
Shayne Cook
Mar 16 2013 at 7:45am
Within your segment on the Stossel show you recommend reduction of U.S. Defense spending. That is a sentiment also expressed by others, and one I’m not unsympathetic to.
But I’m curious what level of U.S. Defense spending you would think appropriate, and more importantly, on what would your Defense budget be spent.
(To some extent, I’m asking you to be a designer here.)
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