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Greg Mankiw on Inflation and the Surging Monetary Base
Over at Greg Mankiw?s blog, a discussion of whether the ?surging monetary base? necessarily means inflation down the road: Both reserves and T-bills are interest-paying obligations of the Federal government (including the Federal Reserve)...

Mankiw: True Marginal Rate Is 93% Under Obama (83% Under McCain)
Greg Mankiw (Harvard University, Department of Economics), My Personal Work Incentives: Here is a question that you may have been thinking about: How do the different candidates' tax plans affect Greg Mankiw's incentive to work? ...

Greg Mankiw on the Youth Vote:
Greg Mankiw has a chart illustrating the dramatic drop in the youth vote for McCain versus Bush. He concludes:...

Joe the Economist (Greg Mankiw)
Economist Greg Mankiw has a post that fascinates me.  As a professor who makes over $250,000 a year, he notices that under Obama’s tax plan he may make less money, and pass on less to his children...

Hedge Fund Losses, Layoffs, Closures, and Fee Cuts
Hedge funds, like other market participants, are both victim and, to some, creators, of the current market crisis. In September, hedge fund investors redeemed an estimated $43 billion of approximately $1...

Investing in a Hedge Fund is Like Joining the Country Club
Yes, "successful" mutual fund and hedge fund managers are just lucky. Here is the math. Why they don't people invest in a boring fund like Vanguard's S&P 500 Index, or PIMCO Total Return? Because then you don't get to say, "I invest with [insert prestigious hedge fund]...

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