Items by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Economix: A Modestly Strong Batch of New Data
Posted: May 17th, 2012, 1:13pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The Times's weekly tracker suggests that job growth this month may be slightly stronger than forecast a week ago.
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Economix: A Worrisome Rise in Jobless Claims
Posted: April 26th, 2012, 12:42pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The odds increased that the economy has fallen into a spring slowdown for the third straight year.
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News Analysis: In the Court, Split Seems Partisan
Posted: March 28th, 2012, 3:00am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The health care law has always prompted partisan reactions — and the justices’ questions on Tuesday seemed another example.
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Economix Blog: How Housing Prices Burden the Economy
Posted: March 20th, 2012, 12:49pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A conversation with Matthew Yglesias of Slate, the author of "The Rent Is Too Damn High," a short new electronic book.
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Appreciation in China’s Currency Goes Largely Unnoted
Posted: February 16th, 2012, 6:25am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The renminbi’s recent appreciation has led economists to question whether it remains the most important economic issue for the United States to press with China.
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News Analysis: Why Americans Think the Tax Rate’s High, and Why They’re Wrong
Posted: January 20th, 2012, 3:05am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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When Mitt Romney said that his federal tax rate was about 15 percent, many wrongly assumed that their own rate was higher.
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The Lives They Lived: Keith W. Tantlinger, b. 1919
Posted: December 23rd, 2011, 1:00am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Tantlinger’s lock the connected the corners of shipping containers deserves a place on any list of economically significant inventions of the 20th century.
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Economic Memo: The Gridlock Where Debts Meet Politics - Economic Memo
Posted: November 6th, 2011, 4:06am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Economies in the United States and Europe have been growing too slowly, for too long, to pay for the coming bulge of retirees.
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Economic Scene: Lessons From the Malaise
Posted: July 26th, 2011, 11:56pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Nuances and caveats help to keep the nation from solving some straightforward questions about the economy.
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Economic Scene: Lessons From the Malaise
Posted: July 26th, 2011, 11:56pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Nuances and caveats help to keep the nation from solving some straightforward questions about the economy.
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Economic Scene: Negotiating Election Headwinds
Posted: July 20th, 2011, 12:53am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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With the economy struggling, the Obama campaign is looking at past campaigns for clues on how to avoid losing.
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Economic Scene: Cutting the Deficit, Adding Jobs
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 10:03pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Both parties have reason to compromise on the debt talks under way as the economy shows signs of stumbling.
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Economic Scene: Cutting the Deficit, Adding Jobs
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 10:03pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Both parties have reason to compromise on the debt talks under way as the economy shows signs of stumbling.
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Economix: Struggling College Graduates
Posted: June 10th, 2011, 10:01am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Despite what you read, they often end up doing O.K.
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Economic Scene: One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
Posted: May 31st, 2011, 11:40pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The influence of Iowa and New Hampshire in the presidential election season hurts economic policy.
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Economic Scene: One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
Posted: May 31st, 2011, 10:59pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The influence of Iowa and New Hampshire in the presidential election season hurts economic policy.
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Economix: The True Cost of Carbon
Posted: May 18th, 2011, 11:09am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Two economists from The Hamilton Project argue that we spend much more on energy that we think.
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Economix: The Economics of a Vengeful Deity
Posted: May 18th, 2011, 10:18am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education blog delves into economic differences and theological differences among religions.
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Economix: Building Wealth Through Renting
Posted: May 12th, 2011, 2:47pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A Fed economist's study offers a rebuttal to the conventional wisdom that owning a home is building equity for your future, while renting is money wasted.
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Economix: Is Another Housing Crash Coming?
Posted: May 11th, 2011, 10:10am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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An economist says no, despite the still sky-high prices in New York, San Francisco and a few other places. Still, the economist says people should not rush to buy homes in most places.
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Economic Scene: Rent or Buy, a Matter of Lifestyle
Posted: May 11th, 2011, 8:15am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The relative merits are closer than they have been since the housing bubble began inflating almost a decade ago.
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Economix: Using Economics to Help the World's Poor
Posted: May 10th, 2011, 1:30pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, economists at M.I.T., discuss their new book, "Poor Economics."
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Economix: A Fresh Look at Fighting Global Poverty
Posted: April 26th, 2011, 2:01pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A conversation with Dean Karlen and Jacob Appel, authors of "More Than Good Intentions," a book re-examining tactics for helping the impoverished in the developing world.
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Economic Scene: Do-Nothing Congress as a Cure
Posted: April 13th, 2011, 2:20am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The expiration of the Bush tax cuts would mean a return to the Clinton tax rates and a good start to a smaller deficit.
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Economic Scene: Do-Nothing Congress as a Cure
Posted: April 13th, 2011, 2:20am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The expiration of the Bush tax cuts would mean a return to the Clinton tax rates and a good start to a smaller deficit.
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Economix: The Case for Having More Children
Posted: April 7th, 2011, 9:00am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Bryan Caplan, an economist at George Mason University, talks about his new book, "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids."
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Economic Scene: Generational Divide Colors Debate Over Medicare’s Future
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 2:32am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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asks for a whole lot of sacrifice from everyone under the age of 55 and little from everyone 55 and over.There is a near bipartisan consensus that Medicare and Social Security cuts should spare baby boomers and elderly, who vote more.
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Economic Scene: Generational Divide Colors Debate Over Medicare’s Future
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 2:32am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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asks for a whole lot of sacrifice from everyone under the age of 55 and little from everyone 55 and over.There is a near bipartisan consensus that Medicare and Social Security cuts should spare baby boomers and elderly, who vote more.
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Economix: A Liberal Plan for Social Security
Posted: March 23rd, 2011, 10:50am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Social Security isn't very progressive. A plan to put it on firmer fiscal footing could also make it more progressive.
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Economic Scene: Hopeful Message About the World’s Poorest
Posted: March 23rd, 2011, 1:07am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Better health and education in North Africa and the Middle East may be fueling political change.
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Economic Scene: Hopeful Message About the World’s Poorest
Posted: March 23rd, 2011, 1:07am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Better health and education in North Africa and the Middle East may be fueling political change.
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Economix: Defying the Economics of Baseball
Posted: March 14th, 2011, 3:50pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Jonah Keri, the author of a new book about the Tampa Bay Rays, talks about the team's Wall Street owners and its surprising recent success.
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Economix: Defying the Economics of Baseball
Posted: March 14th, 2011, 3:50pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Jonah Keri, the author of a new book about the Tampa Bay Rays, talks about the team's Wall Street owners and its surprising recent success.
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Economic Scene: Flirting With a Repeat of a Stunted Recovery
Posted: March 9th, 2011, 2:23am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Positives and negatives in the economy are reminiscent of those from a year ago, when the recovery sputtered.
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Economic Scene: Union Contracts, Not Pay, Are States’ Problem
Posted: March 2nd, 2011, 2:23pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The real labor issue involving public workers is not the money — it’s almost everything else.
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Economix: Why Does College Cost So Much?
Posted: February 18th, 2011, 3:49pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A conversation with Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, economists at the College of William & Mary and the authors of a book on the cost of college.
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Economix: Health Reform Comic Book
Posted: February 8th, 2011, 11:27am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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An M.I.T. economist is helping to write a comic book on last year's health care overhaul.
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Economix: A Conversation With Tyler Cowen
Posted: February 3rd, 2011, 10:00am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The author of "The Great Stagnation" talks about possible remedies to the long American growth slump.
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Economic Scene: The Paradox of Corporate Taxes
Posted: February 2nd, 2011, 1:14am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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With one of the world’s highest corporate tax rates, the United States still raises less revenue from corporations than it used to. The reason is in the tax code.
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Economic Scene: Cut Waste or Invest? Try Both
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 1:17am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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President Obama wants to ensure investments that help the economy. The G.O.P. wants the government not to waste money. Education offers a chance for both sides.
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Economic Scene: Cut Waste or Invest? Try Both
Posted: January 26th, 2011, 1:17am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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President Obama wants to ensure investments that help the economy. The G.O.P. wants the government not to waste money. Education offers a chance for both sides.
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Economix: What Government Can Do
Posted: January 24th, 2011, 10:22am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Two articles offer reminders of the positive role that government can play in a market economy.
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Economix: Growing Without Driving
Posted: January 20th, 2011, 5:20pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Until the 1990s, economic growth and growth in the number of miles driven moved in tandem. But they haven't done so since then.
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Economix: Old-Time Short-Time Work
Posted: January 20th, 2011, 5:09pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The debate over short-time work -- cutting hours to avoid layoffs -- stretches back to the 19th century.
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Economix: One Company's Struggles in China
Posted: January 18th, 2011, 3:24pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A Wisconsin manufacturer is a good illustration of why the exchange rate is far from the full story of the economic relationship between China and the United States.
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Economix: A Conversation With Barry Eichengreen
Posted: January 14th, 2011, 1:00pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A new series of blog posts -- Book Chat -- starts with Barry Eichengreen, author of a book on the rise and fall of the dollar.
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Economix: The Irrational Awe of China
Posted: January 14th, 2011, 12:19pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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More Americans say China is the world's leading economic power than say the United States is. We say: Buck up, Americans!
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Economix: Wishful Thinking on Health Costs
Posted: January 13th, 2011, 5:48pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Opponents of the health law sometimes suggest that cutting costs would be easy, with common-sense ideas. Several writers -- David Wessel, most recently -- have recently explained why that's not so.
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Economic Scene: The Real Problem With China
Posted: January 12th, 2011, 8:23am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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For the United States, the main trouble with China’s economy is probably intellectual property theft, followed by protectionist barriers to trade.
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Economix: Gene Sperling 101
Posted: January 6th, 2011, 9:34am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A quick biography and reading list for anyone trying to get up to speed on Gene Sperling, who is expected to be named chairman of the National Economic Council.
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Economic Scene: Budget Hawk Eyes Deficit
Posted: January 4th, 2011, 10:18pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, a potential Republican presidential candidate, discussed what small government might look like.
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Economic Scene: Budget Hawk Eyes Deficit
Posted: January 4th, 2011, 9:27pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, a potential Republican presidential candidate, discussed what small government might look like.
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Economic Scene: In the Rearview, a Year That Fizzled
Posted: December 29th, 2010, 12:00am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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This year, the economy started to recover, then sputtered. We look back at 2010 and look ahead, through charts.
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Economic Scene: In the Rearview, a Year That Fizzled
Posted: December 29th, 2010, 12:00am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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This year, the economy started to recover, then sputtered. We look back at 2010 and look ahead, through charts.
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Economix: Buy vs. Rent Update
Posted: December 22nd, 2010, 12:43pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Should you buy a home or rent one? An updated list of the relationship between home prices and rents in 55 metropolitan areas.
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Economic Scene: Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
Posted: December 15th, 2010, 8:40am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Resistance to the expansion of the social safety net stems from tension between two competing traditions in the American economy.
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Economic Scene: Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
Posted: December 15th, 2010, 8:19am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Resistance to the expansion of the social safety net stems from tension between two competing traditions.
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Economic Scene: Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition
Posted: December 15th, 2010, 2:12am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Resistance to the expansion of the social safety net stems from tension between two competing traditions in the American economy.
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Economix: Winning by Losing?
Posted: December 8th, 2010, 5:34pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A writer argues that the Democrats ended up benefiting from their failure to deal with the Bush tax cuts earlier.
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Economic Scene: For Obama, Tax Deal Is a Back-Door Stimulus
Posted: December 8th, 2010, 11:40am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Despite anger from Congressional Democrats, President Obama’s tax plan is intended to help short-term job creation.
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Economic Scene: For Obama, Tax Deal Is a Back-Door Stimulus
Posted: December 8th, 2010, 11:40am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Despite anger from Congressional Democrats, President Obama’s tax plan is intended to help short-term job creation.
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Economix: Obama's Tax-Cut Retreat, Through Two Lenses
Posted: December 6th, 2010, 11:21am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Which party would receive more blame for allowing tax cuts on everyone to rise? That seems to be a close call. Which party would receive more blame for a weak economy? That's not such a close call.
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Economix: The Social Security Deficit
Posted: November 26th, 2010, 10:30am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Does Social Security face a long-term financing problem? Yes.
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Economix: Growth: The U.S. vs. Europe
Posted: November 24th, 2010, 8:20pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Why have France, Germany and the United Kingdom been growing even more slowly than the United States?
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In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge
Posted: November 24th, 2010, 5:20pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Building a consumer society in China won’t be easy, but the health of the world economy depends on it.
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Economic Scene: Life Expectancy in China Rising Slowly, Despite Economic Surge
Posted: November 24th, 2010, 4:01pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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China’s economy has grown rapidly for two decades, but life expectancy there has not kept pace.
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Economic Scene: Life Expectancy in China Rising Slowly, Despite Economic Surge
Posted: November 24th, 2010, 4:01pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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China’s economy has grown rapidly for two decades, but life expectancy there has not kept pace.
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Economix: Deficit Puzzle: Where's the Fair Tax?
Posted: November 22nd, 2010, 3:18pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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And what about a gas tax and a financial-transactions tax? We answers readers' questions about why they did not see these three taxes in The Times's online deficit puzzle.
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How Readers Chose to Fix the Deficit
Posted: November 21st, 2010, 1:54pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A puzzle gave readers a chance to post their own solutions. Together, they show that compromise won’t be all that easy.
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Economix: Haves, Have-Nots and Health Care
Posted: November 19th, 2010, 3:41pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Many households with above-average income struggle to afford the medical care they want, a doctor writes.
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Economix: Bush Tax Cuts: Reader Responses
Posted: November 18th, 2010, 3:40pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Readers comment. We respond.
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Economix: Did the Bush Tax Cuts Lift Growth?
Posted: November 18th, 2010, 12:26pm EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Every available piece of evidence seems to suggest that the Bush tax cuts did little to lift growth.
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Economic Scene: One Way to Trim Deficit: Cultivate Growth
Posted: November 17th, 2010, 12:00am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Economic growth, if it is not cut, would go a long way toward reducing the deficit.
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Economic Scene: The Enduring Myth of Gold’s Record High
Posted: November 10th, 2010, 12:55am EST by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Despite many news reports that gold has reached a “record high,” it’s not true, at least not in any meaningful sense
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Economic Scene: Fed’s More Aggressive Move May Not Go Far Enough
Posted: November 4th, 2010, 12:09am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The Federal Reserve’s bond-buying plan carries risks, including the possibility of inflation. But as the months go by, the effects of its nonaction have proved to be the problem.
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Economix: On Taxes, Voting for Status Quo
Posted: November 3rd, 2010, 9:39pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Ballot initiatives to raise new taxes failed, but so did some initiatives to repeal existing ones.
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Economic Scene: After the Elections, Options for a Tax Cut
Posted: November 2nd, 2010, 4:50pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Five compromises worth considering as Congress debates the Bush tax cuts, which expire on Dec. 31.
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Economix: Alternate History of the Stimulus
Posted: October 28th, 2010, 8:45am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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If the unemployment rate were 9 percent — still high, but falling — how would people feel about the economy?
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Economix: What Else Could the White House Have Done?
Posted: October 27th, 2010, 6:35pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Two takes on whether the Obama administration could have done much more to lift economic growth and bring down unemployment.
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Economic Scene: Job Losses Taint Recovery Progress
Posted: October 26th, 2010, 6:23pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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On the issue that drives elections more than any other — the economy — the White House and Congress have fallen short.
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Economic Scene: Job Losses Taint Recovery Progress
Posted: October 26th, 2010, 6:23pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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On the issue that drives elections more than any other — the economy — the White House and Congress have fallen short.
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Economic Scene: Proving Innovation in Medicare
Posted: October 20th, 2010, 10:32am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A proposal to rein in Medicare spending would allow coverage of treatments for three years to prove that they work better than cheaper treatments.
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Economix: Ritholtz's Questions for Mankiw
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 8:45am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Barry Ritholtz, author of the Big Picture blog, is now out with a list of pointed questions for Professor Greg Mankiw.
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Economix: A Debate on China
Posted: October 15th, 2010, 8:45am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Two economists debate the importance of the China-United States exchange rate and what the two countries should do about it.
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Economix: Blame Game Over Cap and Trade
Posted: October 13th, 2010, 2:04pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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How much fault does the White House deserve for the failure to pass climate legislation? Two camps make their cases.
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Economic Scene: A Climate Proposal Beyond Cap and Trade
Posted: October 13th, 2010, 9:35am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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An alternative in climate policy revolves around much more financing for clean energy research.
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China-U.S. Trade: A Big Outlier
Posted: October 8th, 2010, 7:50am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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An economist explores why China sells so many goods to the United States — more than might be expected based on what other variables might predict.
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It Isn't Just China's Currency
Posted: October 7th, 2010, 11:05am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The United States also needs to address China's other subsidies for its exporters.
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Economic Scene: Health Care’s Uneven Road to a New Era
Posted: October 6th, 2010, 1:01am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Soon Americans won’t have to pick between bad insurance or none. Until then, expect marketplace disruptions.
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Fewer Budgets, Less Spending
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 10:01am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Support grows for biennial budgeting.
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Economic Scene: Imagining a Deficit Plan From Republicans
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 10:18am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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There’s a big difference between Republicans who have pledged to cut the deficit and true fiscal conservatives.
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Economic Scene: The Long View of China’s Currency
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 12:17am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A stronger renminbi would not be a quick fix for our problems, but it is crucial to correcting the global economy’s imbalances.
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What's the Next Welfare Reform?
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 9:45am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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A study finds that welfare reform led to declines in illegal drug use.
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Economic Scene: For Blacks, Progress in Happiness
Posted: September 15th, 2010, 1:10am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Economists found even though racial gaps had grown in some areas, black Americans made strides in happiness.
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Economic Scene: For Blacks, Progress in Happiness
Posted: September 15th, 2010, 1:10am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Economists found even though racial gaps had grown in some areas, black Americans made strides in happiness.
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2010, a Year of No Inflation
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 8:45am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Inflation has been negative. Fifteen million people are unemployed. The Federal Reserve still isn't taking aggressive action.
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Economic Scene: The Bears and the State of Housing
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 12:26am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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The difference between viewing housing as a luxury good or as a staple is the subject of a debate about the recovery.
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Economic Scene: Tax Cuts That Make a Difference
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 1:00am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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Republicans and President Obama are open to tax cuts. The question is what kind can put people back to work.
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The Way We Live Now: Making a Better Consumer
Posted: August 13th, 2010, 4:09pm EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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What we don’t understand as consumers really could hurt us.
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Economic Scene: For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Some Benefits
Posted: August 11th, 2010, 2:59am EDT by By DAVID LEONHARDT
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For the employed, wages are rising and lack of inflation is strengthening purchasing power.