Geography of Foreclosure Crisis - 10/29/08

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Calculate Your Work Incentives - 10/29/08

Greg Mankiw finally answered the question that we've been waiting all election season to find out: "How will John McCain's or Barack Obama's tax proposals affect Greg Mankiw?"

Of course, that's not the question he's really asking, but it sure is fun to phrase it that way! Instead, he's really asking a much more fundamental question: "How will either Barack Obama's or John McCain's tax proposals affect the incentives that... More

Job Cuts Steepest for Unskilled - 10/28/08

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The Savings from Falling Gas Prices - 10/20/08

Professor Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance

Update: The $1.62 per gallon fall in gas prices since the $4.12 peak in July to the current $2.50 (see chart above from this link), represents an annual savings for consumers of about $230 billion (compared to a scenario if gas prices stayed about $4). On a previous CD post, I showed that for each one penny decrease in gas prices, consumers save... More

Defaults on Risky Mortgages - 10/03/08

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Candidate Tax Rates - 10/02/08

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