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Behavioral Economics
Nov 12 2017
George Selgin has a new post discussing three pieces of legislation being considered by the Senate. Here's one: The Independence from Credit Policy Act (H.R. 4278), introduced by Rep. French Hill (R-AR), is intended to restrict the Fed's asset holdings, apart from gold, foreign exchange, and IMF-issued SDRs, particul...
Nov 12 2017
A Malibu church that has helped the homeless for years has been asked to stop feeding people who are down on their luck. No, this is not the Onion. This is from a news story about the city government of Malibu asking the United Methodist Church not to feed homeless people. It appears that all the city government did w...
Nov 11 2017
My interview with RT about Richard Thaler, 401(k)s, and humans and icons is posted here. It starts at about the 6:00 point. I wrote about Thaler's Nobel earlier here. Make sure you watch it to the end of my segment.
READER COMMENTS
John Goodman
Nov 11 2017 at 4:01pm
David:
You forgot to mention the role of think tanks (Goodman at NCPA and Orszag at Brookings) which made possible legislation giving employers a safe haven for auto enrollment, which would not have happened had there not been donors who support think tanks.
Message needs continual reinforcement.
The Original CC
Nov 11 2017 at 10:08pm
Funny comment regarding Siberia at the end! Very appropriate for the venue.
As usual, you are very at ease on camera. Nice work!
David R Henderson
Nov 12 2017 at 12:01am
@John Goodman,
I didn’t forget. She caught me off guard. I had no idea that she was going to be talking about legislation on 401(k)s.
David R Henderson
Nov 12 2017 at 12:40am
@The Original CC,
Thanks.
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