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Linda Bilmes: US Wars to Cost $4-6 Trillion! Linda Bilmes, April 10, 2013, Audio. "Bilmes discusses “The Financial Legacy of Iraq & Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending…
Cost of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Linda Bilmes, April 8, 2013, Video. "Linda Bilmes talked about her report on the cost f the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In the report she…
The Long Mystery of Low Interest Rates. Kenneth Rogoff, April 4, 2013, Opinion. "As policymakers and investors continue to fret over the risks posed by today’s ultra-low global…
Lawrence Summers on the Interplay Between Government and Business. Lawrence Summers, April 3, 2013, Audio . "Harvard University President Emeritus Lawrence Summers, a former US…
Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth. Robert H. Bates, April 2013, Paper. "Africa is largely agrarian, and the performance of agriculture…
THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF TAX EXPENDITURES: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL VARIATION ACROSS THE U.S. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, April 2013, Paper. "Enabling children to rise out of…
New tax provision on deductions won’t hurt charitable giving. Robert Pozen, April 1, 2013, Opinion. "In the recent tax legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff, Congress reinstated a…
A Sustainable Budget Should Endure Any Storm. Gregory Mankiw, March 31, 2013, Opinion. "In the national debate over fiscal policy, an important question is what the long-run goal…
Corporate-Tax Reform Without Tears. Robert Pozen, March 31, 2013, Opinion. "Economists have long recognized the damaging effects of the high U.S. corporate tax—at 35%, the rate is…
When Interest Rates Rise. Martin Feldstein, March 30, 2013, Opinion. "Long-term interest rates are now unsustainably low, implying bubbles in the prices of bonds and other…