The Dangerous Economist

It passed in the House of Representatives yesterday. It is 647 pages long. This New York Times article, Components of Stimulus Vary in Speed...

There is an article called Stimulus 101: What's in the Bills . Its give a summary of what has been proposed plus the pros and cons.

To find out why, go to Worker Tax Cut: Maybe Not so Immediate . This is really just another version of the post I had a few days ago on the ...

To read about this go to Job losses hitting men harder than women . Here are some key exerpts: "The economic crisis is hitting men much...

You probably know that we are in a recession. Unemployment is at 7.2%, the highest in 15 years. As my macro students will learn later this s...

To read about this go to Top Budget Travel Destinations for 2009: The best value hot spots for the New Year . But if people really believe t...

That is the finding of an interesting study. Click on Study: You Touch It, You Buy It to read about it. This exerpt gives the basic idea: ...

This will be finals week at San Antonio College, so I will not post very much in the next month or so. Once the next semester start, I will ...

I first posted on this last January. Here is the link Is An Electronic "Helicopter Drop" Feasible? . Basically, people have debit ...

Normally I don't like to just put in links to other blogs since you can read that stuff by clicking on my links to those blogs. But sinc...

But first, a funny cartoon by Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune . The cartoon has nothing to do with the topic. It comes from this ...

I guess we should all be thankful for having so many teams of ecnomists. Must be nothing to worry about. Obama has created a new President‘s...

You can read about her at this New York Times article Christina D. Romer . She is a highly regarded scholar, being an expert on the Great De...

The 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman is definitely pro-stimulus: "So we need a fiscal stimulus big enough to close a 7% out...

Last week I talked about how Americans in general might not be paying all the taxes they are supposed to. The same might be true about corpo...

The article is It May Be a Good Job, but Is It ‘Good Work’? from Sunday's New York Times . It says that a good job is "a calling t...

In 1989, I bought a computer and an external hardrive that had 40 megabytes of memory.The drive cost $700 (and that was with the student dis...

The link is Report: IRS issued $1B in bad refunds in 2007 . Here is the key exerpt: "The IRS has estimated that the tax gap _ the diffe...

The article is As Stadiums Rise, So Do Costs to Taxpayers from the New York Times. Here is an exerpt: "Though the teams are indeed pay...