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When Russ Roberts rewrites some typically hysterical economic reporting, it’s a thing of beauty. But I still prefer his regular blogging. 🙂
When Russ Roberts rewrites some typically hysterical economic reporting, it’s a thing of beauty. But I still prefer his regular blogging. 🙂
Feb 8 2009
I think that President Obama set the bar ridiculously low when he said that 75 percent of the stimulus should kick in within by the end of 2010, but the House bill did not even get over that bar. Why is the stimulus bill so filled with non-stimulus while it omits real stimulus measures, such as cutting payroll taxes? ...
Feb 8 2009
Viral Acharya and Matthew Richardson write, for years, regulation - capital requirement in particular - has targeted individual bank risk, when the justification for its existence resides primarily in managing systemic risk. It is to be expected that financial institutions would maximise returns from the explicit and ...
Feb 7 2009
When Russ Roberts rewrites some typically hysterical economic reporting, it's a thing of beauty. But I still prefer his regular blogging. :-)
READER COMMENTS
Paul G
Feb 7 2009 at 9:49pm
If I were an English teacher, I would scold you for verb’s mood confusion.
(Apparently I’m doing it anyway).
Brandon Robison
Feb 8 2009 at 1:20am
Hey Professor Caplan,
The subjunctive mood in English grammar *is* a dying art form, but most sticklers still agree it is technically correct.
The title for this blog post should have been “If Russ Roberts Were a Journalist…”
Read more on the subjunctive on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive
guthrie
Feb 9 2009 at 1:52pm
Brilliant! I agree he needs to do this more often…
Lorraine
Feb 10 2009 at 5:27am
Totally agree, he would certainly make newspapers more entertaining! Love his blogging too.
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