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Risk and Systemic Risk
By John H. Makin
Posted: Friday, September 5, 2008
The ultimate lesson from the collapse of the housing bubble and the attendant credit crisis is that financial and economic cycles will always be with us.
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Covering the Uninsured
Springing a Leak in the "Cost Shifting Hydraulic"
By Thomas P. Miller
Posted: Thursday, September 4, 2008
A new study continues to rain on the political parade of claims that the uncompensated care costs of the uninsured are largely recycled into higher private insurance premiums.
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Smart Taxes
An Open Invitation to Join the Pigou Club
By N. Gregory Mankiw
Posted: Thursday, September 4, 2008
Although they are politically unpalatable, Pigovian taxes are eminently sensible as judged by standard principles of economics.
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Is U.S. Monetary Policy Really Too Loose?
By Desmond Lachman
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Fed should not hike interest rates until it has clear evidence of stabilization in the housing and credit markets.
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Estimating Trends in U.S. Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey
The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
By Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, Jeff Larrimore
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once researchers controlled for top coding in the public use data and censoring in the internal data.
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Preserving Slave Families for Profit
Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market
By Charles W. Calomiris, Jonathan Pritchett
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Data from the New Orleans slave market reveal large price discounts for families that cannot be explained by scale effects, childcare costs, legal restrictions, or transport costs.
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The Rich, Soaked
By Kevin A. Hassett
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The tax share of the rich has gone up a lot more since 2000 than their income share has.
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Michelle Obama Is Right about Avoiding the ER
By Scott Gottlieb, M.D.
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Barack Obama's health policies hamstring community clinics.
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Addiction Doesn't Discriminate? Wrong
By Sally Satel, M.D.
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Despite claims to the contrary, addiction is not a universal ailment. There are certain characteristics that increase the risk of becoming addicted to drugs.
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AEI People and Programs, September 2008
AEI Newsletter
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2008
This issue covers Peter J. Wallison, Nick Schulz, Adam Lerrick, Thomas P. Miller, Joseph Antos, Andrew G. Biggs, Thomas Donnelly, Philip I. Levy, Douglas J. Besharov, and more.
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Latin American Outlook
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In the latest edition of Latin American Outlook, Roger F. Noriega says that Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made impressive strides, but he needs to take on lingering economic and political reforms.
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