Robert's Stochastic thoughts

A ‘Rich’ Person Is Someone Who Makes 50 Percent More Than You ... @UpshotNYT NYT - Josh Barro - Jan 29 The first rule of modern tax ...

David Glasner has another interesting post questioning Milton Friedman's immense status. This time he asserts that the claim that the l...

Discussing Syriza, Frances Coppola quotes Keynes who she names only at the end of the column (although she knew and wrote that it would be e...

David Glasner has a very interesting post in which he discusses the question of whether David Hume came up with the argument that the long ...

I am actually reading "Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve" by James Forder . I started in the middle after searching for [Samu...

I typed something sloppily which stimulated Nick Rowe (see his comments here ) Actually I have a challenge. Name a Friedman Solow debate wh...

Reader beware. This is economics but it isn't my field of expertise. There is a huge literature on the effects of double taxation of di...

Nick Rowe wrote a post "There are no Friedmans today, except maybe Friedman himself" which I admit I haven't read. Rowe dec...

Via Simon Wren-Lewis , Richard Murphy informed me of a genuinely horrible policy in the UK. The Queen's exchequer is selling bonds at ...

I have tried and failed to resist risking wasting reader's* time with another post on the same 20 data points. I am still looking at US...

I am wondering why the fiscal cliff January 2013 didn't have a noticeable effect on the growth if consumption and GDP. Compared to 20...

cross posted at angrybearblog I have been pinged @Noahpinion @sjwrenlewis also pinging @interfluidity @robertwaldmann @Frances_Coppo...

I'm continuing this discussion over here at this obscure blog, because writing 21 posts about 21 data points is a bit embarrassing. I n...

This is another guess about George R R Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" The books contain several references to the horn of Jo...

TARP Books Closed (give or not give less than $ 1 billion). According to Lew, the total profit for American taxpayers on TARP investments...

I was thinking about the newly liberated Obama here the villagers seem to have decided that Obama was passive, bored and uninterested in h...

From the Kaiser Family Foundtion Obamacare Tracking Poll for December 2014 Nearly 5 years after passage and a year after the coverage e...

QOTOD * In any case, as is traditional on this blessed holiday, Rick Perry, the Simple Child, will now ask the Four questions, and if he ca...

All Kossacks work for the Kzar, but some Kossacks are more random than others Yellow pigs forever. Also the bill of rewrites is excel...

Kevin Drum asks an even more than usually interesting question here He lists Democratic victories in the cromnibus (aside from that keepin...