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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Incentives Work!

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  • My Financial Reform guidelines, v 1.2
  • Expats giving up citizenship: Brain Drain, Taxation and Immigration
  • Unions and Standards-Based Education
  • Executive Compensation
  • Moral Hazard, part 2, plus some financial reform, Krugman, and financial dynamism
  • Moral Hazard, part 1
  • Goldman, part 2: the response
  • Goldman, part 1
  • Nuances around China's Currency Appreciation
  • Sperm and Egg Donation
  • Fixing Taxicab allocations
  • How the Zero Rupee Note Works
  • Too Big to Fail and Moral Hazard
  • Ten Books
  • Educating the Workforce
  • Exchanges and Clearinghouses
  • My Models of Thinking, v 1.3
  • More Healthcare R+D concerns
  • Healthcare budget and abortion disasters
  • The interest rate climb
  • Females less risk averse?
  • What's next in healthcare, part 2
  • What's next in healthcare, part 1
  • Anchoring bias and confirmation bias in the Middle East
  • Incredible claims of a misled public on healthcare
  • bank regulation
  • High Frequency Trading
  • Steering people to productive jobs
  • Gene Patenting
  • overfairness
  • My Government Priorities, version 1.5
  • My Healthcare Reform, Version 2.2
  • Roadmap for America: parallels between Asian investment and American consumption
  • My Issue with Republicans Right Now
  • Understanding the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Health Insurer Antitrust Protection
  • Newest iteration of ObamaCare
  • Corporate Management and Efficiency by Country
  • antibiotic resistance
  • US Prospects from the Chinese bubble
  • Inflation in China and how to respond
  • Welfare Incentives
  • A jobless era? Maybe not...
  • Volcker Rule about prop trading and bank size
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  • Statistical Nuance: NFL Quarterbacks
  • Dangers of Uncertainty
  • Obama's Second Budget: Never let a crisis go to waste
  • Financial Innovation
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  • Subtle Media Mistakes: The Economist
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  • Was Coakley's Defeat a national referendum?
  • A better alternative to the "bank tax"
  • Asset bubbles, casino investing and financial reform
  • Guide to Case Interviews
  • Cap and Trade and Global warming
  • Krugman and DeLong misinterpret the "price" of housing
  • Banker Bonuses, AIG's necessity and a dumb media
  • Apple's Censorship and Net Neutrality
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  • Interchange Fee Reform for Credit/Debit cards
  • Dealing with High Frequency Trading
  • Electing Better Politicians
  • Loser-Pays Litigation
  • The Purpose of Economic Models
  • Chinese Mercantilism and Protecting Ourselves
  • An Impractically Spartan Congress
  • On the Filibuster
  • Big China Concerns
  • looking back on TARP
  • Reviewing the Senate Health bill
  • on Chinese overcapacity
  • The Privatization of Chicago's Parking Meters
  • Why making progressivism fiscally sustainable is hard
  • Carbon taxes, cap and trade, or an alternative?
  • US underproduction and US jobs, part 2
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  • Problems with High Frequency Trading
  • TIPS and Gold
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  • hezbollah and hamas
  • gazan food and medical aid
  • fixing the trade deficit
  • negative externalities and bank balance sheets
  • simple solutions to big problems
  • prison overcrowding, recidivism, military recruiting
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  • improving the budget deficit and improving science rsch
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  • incentivizing green construction
  • strong executive compensation
  • US-China relations and economics
  • Explaining Recessions and Credit Crises
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  • education and number of children
  • line by line critique of the stimulus
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  • more on the crappy stimulus
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  • on the obama budget
  • why healthcare isn't easily scalable
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