8/31/07: Response to President on Housing Markets, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank
8/31/07: Speech on Housing and Financial Markets, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
8/31/07: Bubbles and Traditional Economics, Economists' View
8/27/07: Update on Subprime Loans, Stephen Cecchetti
8/24/07: Trouble in Toyland: New Challenges for Mattel -- and 'Made in China', Knowledge at Wharton
8/23/07: How to Get Good Public Services through Choice and Competition, Julian Le Grand
8/20/07: How the Friday “Bernanke Put” Slammed Holders of “Put Options” Betting on a Market Fall, Nouriel Roubini
8/20/07: What does the cut in the Fed's discount rate signal?, EconBrowser
8/18/07: The [Hyman] Minsky Moment, Wall Street Journal
8/16/07: The subprime mortgage crisis for dummies Dan Rodrik
8/13/07 It’s All About Them, Paul Krugman
8/10/07: Market Falls Into Well, Rescue Effort Underway Jennifer Kerfuffle
8/9/07 Greenspan, Bush Errors Finally Come Home to Roost, Joseph Stiglitz |
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8/23/07 Blog on Huffington Post, Nanny NYC Kicks Butts. Starting in his first year as mayor, 2002, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has sought to discourage smoking by New Yorkers. His efforts were opposed by many smokers, bars and cigarette vendors, and the city was derided by Human Events as "Nanny NYC." But the mayor's efforts have paid off well....
8/17/07 Cited in Firms Hit Wall on Tech Worker Hiring in New York City, by Amanda Fung, Workforce Management (Irvine,Calif.) Employers can move jobs out," says John Tepper Marlin, former chief economist with the city comptroller's office and now a principal at consulting firm CityEconomist ...
8/16/07 Blog, President Bush Wasn't Reading Out on 9/11, correcting a blog making the common error that the President was reading out "The Pet Goat." He was being read to.
8/15/07 Blog, A Good Idea: Proposed Reverse 911 (City Alerts Us) - support for the idea of having a system for the City to alert citizens about critical developments such as weather, explosions or other accidents - cell phones, email?
8/14/07 Blog, Federal $ for Congestion Pricing Is Good Value, support for DOT grant to NYC to suppose mass transit and install a system for collecting fees to discourage congestion in Manhattan.
8/8/07 Blog, Cities and Innovation, comment on recent UK paper contrasting the ways that hub cities and link cities foster innovation.