Showing posts with label Government Finances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government Finances. Show all posts
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Economic Gangsters from Paradise

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The lavish lifestyle of the former head of the tiny island nation of Maldives ; Gold Plated Toilets Over 8 million dollars! Private island r...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

It is good in Down Under

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Four year net policy decisions included in each Budget and Growth in government operating expenses A new architecture for infrastructure Cor...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

Doctoroff's Law

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Doctoroff 's Law; Difficulty of Getting Project Approved = 2*a + 4*b + 50*c + infinity if its a stadium for the New York Jets where: a =...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

World Bank talks to IMF

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Daniel Kauffman of World Bank writes a comment on the IMF's PFM blog ; Your warm and kind welcome to my governance blog is much appreci...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Garden State's financial mess- would other states learn?

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New Jersey Governor wants your input to cut spending ; Governor Corzine welcomes the opportunity to consider your recommendations for spendi...

Book recommendation to the new governor

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The importance of the upcoming budget negotiations for Mr. Paterson was apparent throughout the day. In a radio appearance Thursday morning,...

Mauritius Budget Reforms

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IMF's PFM blog has an interesting post on budget classifications . Just skimming through Mauritius' Ministry of Finance found the fo...

Will this save the Communist Party

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China Retools Its Government in Efficiency Push ; China announced Tuesday that it would reorganize the central government by creating five s...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Lessons for the Day

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DeLong Econ 210a Industrial Revolution Slides Inflation and Unemployment A cartoon model of the crisis (more serious wonkery) Another Lesso...

Leave Us Alone

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Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives Grover Norquist

Fun with STATA

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From Heavy Lifting- On Congressional Salaries With the outlier thrown out, the monthly increases in per-capita income is slightly larger tha...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Assorted

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"Fisking" Modern Monetarism Tabulating the Credit Crunch's Effects: One Educated Guess UK vs US taxes Did you say “decoupling”...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Think about it

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Which has more value added: college or prison? Vermont tops the list of states that spend more money on prisons than on higher education, ac...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

More on India's budget

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Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's budget speech on Friday once again reflected the government's mounting concern that a vas...
Saturday, March 1, 2008

How Far Will America's Subprime Virus Infect Europe?

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How Far Will America's Subprime Virus Infect Europe? Related; Intergovernmental Finance System Reform in Germany Summary Germany Article...

India's Budget Highlights

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Budget Speech Links and coverage The Economic Times See also Ajay Shah 's, Amol Agrawal 's blogs and Indian Economy blog IMF's ...
Friday, February 29, 2008

Econ Talk of the Day

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Leijonhufvud Says Fed's Power `Limited' in Credit Crisis
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Stiglitz interview on the real cost of Iraq War

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The economist Joseph Stiglitz on what the Iraq war has really cost (podcast will not be available for long- so download now) Related; The T...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Reports Watch

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Europe in a Globalised World Chapter 1 The European Economy: Macroeconomic Outlook and Policy Chapter 2 How much real dollar depreciation is...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Laffer Curve- Part 2

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