Chris Green

More on the charter school difference. - Chris Green

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How its been getting more advanced. - Chris Green

There are three big problems, however, with taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income. First, even if that were the case, capital gains would still be treated more beneficially, because the taxes only apply to realized gains. Those that are unrealized would remain untaxed. Investors needing cash could simply borrow against their assets to minimize their taxes, rather than selling and realizing a capital gain. - Chris Green

Here above you can see a persistant drag on the labor market in the form of the steady decline in the number of people employed by the U.S. Postal Service. As you can see this is a political/technological phenomenon that long predates the recession, but larger economic problems seem to have exacerbated the decline. - Chris Green

Unfortunately, what's harder to see is how these trends are going to benefit the marginal college student in the United States. The kind of person, in other words, who these days tends to start a college career—typically at an unselective school—but all-too-often ends up dropping out. These are people who typically haven't been incredibly well-prepared by their K-12 experience, who probably aren't in the IQ elite, whose social and family networks aren't full of college graduates, and who are only average in terms of motivation and discipline. That's why they're dropping out under present conditions. And they're ending up not just with student debt, but with student debt that hasn't purchased them much of anything in terms of valuable skills or credentials. Developments that help people like that are a real game-changer, but it's not clear to me that anything that's happening in the education technology space right now will really get us there. - Chris Green

The U.S. education system certainly leaves many things to be desired but Mr Clinton’s concern about the number of Americans enrolled in college, as expressed in his speech last night to the Democratic National Convention, was misplaced. He was upset that the share of the American workforce with degrees is lower than that in other countries. He should read the work of Cambridge economist Chang Ha-Joon. Chang has noted that Switzerland—one of the richest countries in the world and the nation with the third-highest ratio of Nobel scientists per person—has a lower rate of college enrollment than every other rich nation, as well as other beacons of prosperity like Argentina, Lithuania, and Greece. In fact, once a country has crossed some very low threshold, there is no relationship between the number of graduates and national wealth. The explanation is simple: a typical college education does not linearly increase labor productivity. - Chris Green

The executives had no desire to put unions ahead of bondholders or bolster the re-election of a president who hadn't even been inaugurated yet. If they could have organized a Chapter 11 bankruptcy they would have. But they couldn't. Given the financial crisis they were going to be forced into a Chapter 7 liquidation. That's what happened to Borders a little while back. They literally sold everything in the stores—including the lamps and the shelves—and then gave whatever money that raised to the bondholders. But liquidating an ongoing manufacturing enterprise is much uglier than liquidating a bookstore. Nobody really needs half a car factory. All things considered, I still think liquidation combined with a gigantic helicopter drop of money on Michigan and Oghio would probabl have been a better policy than government-organized bailout. But the Chapter 11 option O'Toole is recommending wasn't on the table. If it had been, everyone from the executives to the administration would have pre - Chris Green

Often Fed announcements are close to expectations, and the market reaction is muted.  But when there is a big surprise, the market reaction is exactly the opposite of what the Cochrane explanation would predict.  Markets are Friedmanites, not Cochranites.  Markets favor monetary stimulus when recent NGDP growth has put the line far below trend.  That’s not to say markets always favor easy money, high inflation hurt stocks in the 1970s.  Rather that they favor easy money when Milton Friedman would have favored easy money.  David Glasner has documented this pattern in a study that examines the time-varying correlation between TIPS spreads and equity prices. - Chris Green

The economics of patents. - Chris Green

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