The Economics of Drug Development - 10/31/08
One of the unpleasant things I do as a consultant is recommend that pharmaceutical firms halt the production of uneconomical new medicines. I'm a drug killer.
If American voters hand Barack Obama the presidency and a filibuster-proof Democratic Congress, I'll be doing a lot more of this unhappy work.
Say a biotech company is developing a new drug for breast cancer. My consulting firm, Objective Insights, looks at... More
Timeline for the Mortgage Crisis - 10/30/08
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By M. JAY WELLS | Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008
On the eve of what may be the most important election of our time, the financial catastrophe that many believe will most... More
How Markets Work: Miami's Opportunists - 10/24/08
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On the 79th Street Causeway that connects inner Miami to the city's beaches, a colony of giant turkey vultures sits ominously on a radio tower, staring at the downtown skyline. Migratory... More
Where Has Middle Class Income Gone? - 10/21/08
Where Has All the Income Gone? Middle American incomes rise substantially even while inequality increases Terry J. Fitzgerald - Senior Economist September 2008
Almost all the benefits of economic growth since [the 1970s] have gone to a small number of people at the very top. —Robert Reich, Financial Times, Jan. 29, 2008
Since the mid-1970s, however, income... More
Don't Link Healthcare to Employment - 10/20/08
THE CHOICE you'll have," said Barack Obama during last week's debate, as he told voters what to expect if John McCain's health-insurance proposal becomes law, "is having your employer no longer provide you healthcare.
"Don't take my word for it," he added. "The US Chamber of Commerce, which generally doesn't support a lot of Democrats, said that this plan could lead to the unraveling of the employer-based healthcare... More
Speculators, Politicians, and Financial Disasters - 10/20/08
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Fueled by easy credit, the real-estate market had been rising swiftly for some years. Members of Congress were determined to assure the continuation... More
Republicans, Democrats and the Stock Market - 10/17/08
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The Long Tradition of Bashing Bankers - 10/17/08
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There used to be a reliable pecking order of professions that were held in public disregard. Bankers attracted little sympathy but retained a certain mystique. Politicians and journalists were still less respected. Estate agents came beneath the lot. The past few weeks have overturned the... More
Krugman: An Assessment of his Economic Theory - 10/14/08
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Paul Krugman is the winner of the 1991 John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to "that American economist under forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." He obtained his B.A. from Yale in 19 74, and his doctorate in 1977 from M. I. T. He returned to... More
Rescue Plan Comes Round to Economists' View - 10/14/08
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Why U.S. Finance Will Bounce Back - 10/14/08
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The Bailout and the Vanishing Taxpayer - 10/10/08
We have heard much in the press lately about the American taxpayer being forced to rescue the sharpies on Wall Street from their own greed and irresponsibility. Anti-bailout sentiment cuts "across class lines"� on Main Street because "the taxpayers are on the hook for the bad judgment of others,"� as the Washington Post put it.
Now for a reality check. Many Americans probably won't pay a cent of the... More
Why It's Essential to Let Some Banks Fail - 10/10/08
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The Panic of 1907, and of 2008 - 10/08/08
The immense rescue legislation Congress just passed marks a historic watershed--not just for America, but also for the world. I have traveled extensively in East Asia this past month and watched the reaction of executives, government officials, journalists and academics to the unraveling of financial markets in the U.S. and the responses by governments.
Critics from both ends of the political spectrum proclaimed the... More
What Happened to the Dot-Com Bailout? - 10/08/08
(Fortune Magazine) -- The heads-down, can-do entrepreneurs, and libertarian-minded financiers who populate the tech industry aren't typically the sorts to long for a government handout. But in the wake of the Treasury Department's $700-billion-plus rescue plan, Peter Thiel speaks for many when he asks a simple question: "What happened to the dot-com bailout?"
Thiel's not serious - at least not entirely. As founder... More
Barney Frank and Bankruptcy Court - 10/07/08
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Financial Rescue: Democrats created the mortgage crisis by forcing banks to give loans to... More
The Whimper on Wall St. - 10/07/08
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Long Road to Slack Lending Standards - 10/06/08
In the early 1990s I attended a conference designed to teach journalists the tools of an emerging field known as computer-assisted investigative reporting. One of the hottest sessions of the conference explained how journalists could replicate stories that other papers had done locally using computer tools, including one especially popular project to determine if banks in your community were discriminating against minority borrowers... More
California and the Canary in the Coalmine - 10/03/08
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Clinton Instructs Obama on Finance - 10/01/08
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