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Wednesday’s News Roundup
ecthompsonmd June 8, 2011

I’m simply running around like a chicken…you know the rest. From Political Animal: Escalation in Libya: “In a sudden, sharp escalation of NATO’s air campaign over Libya, warplanes dropped more than 50 bombs on targets in Tripoli on Tuesday, obliterating large areas of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya command compound.” (Ed. note – I thought that we weren’t targetting Gaddafi? I’m just askin’.) Congress won’t act, and the Fed doesn’t want to: “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke conceded that the economic recovery is ‘frustratingly slow’ for millions of unemployed Americans, but threw cold water on the notion that the central bank can be

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Don’t raise my taxes (Update)
ecthompsonmd October 11, 2010

The NFL was somewhat of a downer yesterday. I don’t know what to think of the league. Besides my Dallas Cowboys laying a Texas size egg, Houston getting punched in the nose and the St. Louis Rams getting blown out of the building by the lowly Detroit Lions, I’m trying to turn my attention back to economics and politics. Professor N Gregory Mankiw is simply somebody we should know. He tells us he is somebody we should know. He’s a Harvard professor and was part of George W. Bush’s economic team. He published an op-ed in the New York Times on

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Exactly what is Tim Geithner proposing?
ecthompsonmd March 23, 2009

Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist, doesn’t like what he hears. Over the weekend, many news outlets have leaked portions of the “new” bank plan. Here are Krugman’s thoughts. Over the weekend The Times and other newspapers reported leaked details about the Obama administration’s bank rescue plan, which is to be officially released this week. If the reports are correct, Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, has persuaded President Obama to recycle Bush administration policy — specifically, the “cash for trash” plan proposed, then abandoned, six months ago by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. This is more than disappointing. In fact, it fills me with a

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