Sunday, February 27, 2011

What is the difference between public and private-sector unions?

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at 1:44: If a consumer doesn't like the price offered by private sector company, they can take their business elsewhere. The cost of ...

What happens when the price of sex falls?

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Economists take a look at college relationships : ...despite the fact that women are holding the sexual purse strings, they aren't ask...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How bad is our fiscal crisis?

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Unimaginably bad .  We are going to look back fondly at the debates in Wisconsin. The bottom line, then, is that we need to look at the inf...
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Is there any air left in the housing bubble?

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Robert Shiller thinks that prices will have to fall 10-15% before we get back to the pre-bubble days.
Monday, February 21, 2011

Doug Holtz-Eakin on the President's budget

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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com NOTE: Doug Holtz-Eakin is speaking at Vanderbilt on March 23 at an invitation only event. If...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Why did the Wisconsin unions blink?

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In Wisconsin, spending is several billion dollars higher than revenue, and the new Republican governor submitted a budget that asks state ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

If you outsource, don't make this mistake

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...don't tell your subcontractors that if they run into problems, you will take care of them. This decreases their incentive to succeed ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Sign a marriage contract only if you are going to get something out of it

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A former student alerts me to a NY Times article , that seems to follow on to previous post: For centuries, marriage was viewed as an econo...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

Can economics help your marriage?

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Bottom line advice 1. Talk less. 2. Lose weight. 3. Do the dishes. 4. Put out 5. Scheme

Paved with good intentions...

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President Obama presents us with a road map guaranteed to result in a crisis: “The President had an opportunity to show real leadership by ...
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