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Peter Diamond

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Name: Peter Diamond

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Effects of Sequestration

To the Editor: (front page, May 6) brought to mind the famous 1970s headline: Ford to City: Drop Dead. Now the same message is being sent to many Americans throughout the country.PETER DIAMONDLexington, Mass., May 7, 2013 The writer is emeritus professor ... [Published New York Times - May 09 2013]

Entities: Sequestration, Peter Diamond, Nobel Laureate

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Top Scientific Honor for Two Faculty

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University archaeologist James A. Brown and Dale Mortensen, who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, have been elected members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).Membership in the NAS ... [Published Northwestern University - May 02 2013]

Entities: NAS, Nobel Prize, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Labor

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Building a Tax Code for Today

As Congress pursues comprehensive tax reform , policymakers have made numerous references the 1986 Tax Reform Act, which has been the principle framework for overhaul to date.The 1986 reforms are revered because they succeeded politically, passing a divided ... [Published Economic Policy Institute - May 01 2013]

Entities: Taxes, Tax Reform, Inequality, Tax Avoidance, Emmanuel Saez

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Peter Diamond, 2010 Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Start: 5pm End: 6pm Location: Georgiopoulos Classroom, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business Details: Peter Diamond is an expert in government debt and capital accumulation, capital markets and risk sharing, optimal taxation, search and matching in labor ... [Published Dartmouth College - May 01 2013]

Entities: Peter Diamond, Nobel Memorial Prize, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Money Illusion, the Chained CPI, and the Benefits of Inflation

Economists have long recognized the fact that money illusion plays a role in how people behave. Money illusion is the tendency to evaluate the merits of a transaction based on nominal rather than real values.In an interesting chapter by Eldar Shafir, ... [Published Brookings Institution - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Inflation, Medicare, Eldar Shafir, Amos Tversky, Peter Diamond

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

The case for expanding Social Security, not cutting it

Nowadays, whenever Social Security comes up in policy debates around Washington, the discussion often focuses on how best to cut benefits in order to shore up the program’s finances. Time for an expansion? But a big new report (pdf) from the New ... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Social Security, Retirement Security, Robert Hiltonsmith

First reported Mar 09 2013 - Updated Mar 09 2013 - 1 reports

Class warfare goes viral

That this earnest, wonky, far-from-radical video on wealth and income inequality in the US has been viewed more than four million times perhaps tells us something about the current political zeitgeist. It seems Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu had something to ... [Published Harry's Place - Mar 09 2013]

Entities: George Takei, Inequality, Star Trek, Dan Ariely

First reported Feb 05 2013 - Updated Feb 05 2013 - 1 reports

Links for 02-05-2013

Rate Expectations (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman Foreign Banks Hold Most Excess Reserves - WSJ No, there probably isn't a bond bubble - Neil Irwin The Economics of Immigration - Owen Zidar How is Inequality Holding Back the Recovery? - Rortybomb Does Paul ... [Published Economist's View - Feb 05 2013]

Entities: Paul Krugman, Justin Fox, Peter Diamond

First reported Jan 31 2013 - Updated Feb 01 2013 - 1 reports

Americans want to raise payroll taxes and Social Security benefits

Remember when Ronald Reagan, Alan Greenspan, Bob Dole and Tip O’Neill fixed Social Security forever? Good times. Claude Pepper, Dan Rostenkowski and Robert Michel were there too. (Barry Thumma – AP) Seventy-three years ago today, the first Social ... [Published Ezra Klein - Jan 31 2013]

Entities: Social Security, Taxes, Dan Rostenkowski, Claude Pepper

First reported Jan 24 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

The Best Reporting on What’s Wrong with Congress

by Theodoric Meyer Back in 2011, we rounded up some of the best stories about the 112th Congress, the least productive in decades. Since then, things seem to have gotten even worse. The 113th Congress is just three weeks old, and 82 percent of ... [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: Ezra Klein, The New York Times Company, Peter Diamond

First reported Nov 29 2012 - Updated Nov 29 2012 - 1 reports

Five Exceptional Nominees Locked Out Of Public Service By The Senate’s Broken Rules

From the founding of the Republic until the beginning of the current Congress, the Senate voted to break a filibuster on a president’s nominee only 89 times. Nearly one quarter of all of these were Senate Republican filibusters of President Obama’s ... [Published Think Progress - Nov 29 2012]

Entities: Dawn Johnsen, Peter Diamond, Richard Cordray

First reported Nov 27 2012 - Updated Nov 27 2012 - 1 reports

Should the top tax rate be 73 percent?

Most arguments about tax brackets in the United States are over a percentage point or two. Obama wants the top rate to rise 4.6 points to 39.6 percent; Republicans want it to stay at 35 percent. Despite the revenue costs of low rates, some ... [Published Ezra Klein - Nov 27 2012]

Entities: Peter Diamond, Emmanuel Saez, Social Welfare, Taxes

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Effects of Sequestration [Published New York Times - May 09 2013]
Top Scientific Honor for Two Faculty [Published Northwestern University - May 02 2013]
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Building a Tax Code for Today [Published Economic Policy Institute - May 01 2013]
Money Illusion, the Chained CPI, and the Benefi... [Published Brookings Institution - Apr 18 2013]
The case for expanding Social Security, not cut... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 03 2013]
Class warfare goes viral [Published Harry's Place - Mar 09 2013]
Links for 02-05-2013 [Published Economist's View - Feb 05 2013]
Americans want to raise payroll taxes and Socia... [Published Ezra Klein - Jan 31 2013]
The Best Reporting on What’s Wrong with Congress [Published ProPublica: Articles and Investigations - Jan 24 2013]
2012: The Year in Graphs [Published Ezra Klein - Dec 27 2012]
Working out the job market [Published Tim Harford - Dec 15 2012]
17 bills that likely would have passed the Sena... [Published Ezra Klein - Dec 05 2012]
Five Exceptional Nominees Locked Out Of Public ... [Published Think Progress - Nov 29 2012]
Wonkbook: Some Republicans move toward immigrat... [Published Ezra Klein - Nov 28 2012]
Should the top tax rate be 73 percent? [Published Ezra Klein - Nov 27 2012]
More Job Search Secrets: Show Potential Employe... [Published PBS - Sep 27 2012]
Social Security: Absurdly Complex? Not that Ha... [Published PBS - Aug 15 2012]
Saving Social Security: Which Way to Reform? [Published Brookings Topics - The Federal Budget and Seque ... - Dec 10 2003]

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Everything you could possibly need to know abou... [Published Ezra Klein - May 22 2013] (memegenerator.com) On Monday, we wrote a post explaining that “No, the federal government does not profit off student loans” (as the original headline put it). A number of people have pushed back at that conclusion, pointing out that it depends ...
The case for expanding Social Security, not cut... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 03 2013] Nowadays, whenever Social Security comes up in policy debates around Washington, the discussion often focuses on how best to cut benefits in order to shore up the program’s finances. Time for an expansion? But a big new report (pdf) from the New ...
Class warfare goes viral [Published Harry's Place - Mar 09 2013] That this earnest, wonky, far-from-radical video on wealth and income inequality in the US has been viewed more than four million times perhaps tells us something about the current political zeitgeist. It seems Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu had something to ...
Links for 02-05-2013 [Published Economist's View - Feb 05 2013] Rate Expectations (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman Foreign Banks Hold Most Excess Reserves - WSJ No, there probably isn't a bond bubble - Neil Irwin The Economics of Immigration - Owen Zidar How is Inequality Holding Back the Recovery? - Rortybomb Does Paul ...
Americans want to raise payroll taxes and Socia... [Published Ezra Klein - Jan 31 2013] Remember when Ronald Reagan, Alan Greenspan, Bob Dole and Tip O’Neill fixed Social Security forever? Good times. Claude Pepper, Dan Rostenkowski and Robert Michel were there too. (Barry Thumma – AP) Seventy-three years ago today, the first Social ...