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Forget About Reinhard & Rogoff

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Politique.
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Ever since a minor spreadsheet error was discovered in a 2010 study evidencing the plainly obvious fact that increased debt loads hinder economic growth, pundits from the left have been gleefully jumping over this molehill pretending it’s a mountain. Apparently

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Austerity after Reinhart and Rogoff

Thursday, May 9th, 2013 by posted in Capitalism, Economics.

With the world abuzz about mistakes in some influential research by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, attention is being drawn to the case for austerity. Reinhart and Rogoff published several academic articles arguing that, among other things, high levels

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