Archive for January, 2009
Shared by Brian K
I don’t play video games any more. But I would start to play this.
A little bird told me that if I were to sacrifice a human at the top of a volcano, the gods would be amused and deliver this to me right now. …
Here is a question that you may have been thinking about: How do the different candidates’ tax plans affect Greg Mankiw’s incentive to work?Okay, you probably haven’t been thinking about this. But I have, because, after all, I am Greg Mankiw. And if yo…
A reader asks a good question:What are some useful and objective measures which we can use to judge the performance of President Obama and his new team? How would Greg Mankiw judge Obama four years from now?Consider a related question: How would you ju…
by EUGENE F. FAMA
There is an identity in macroeconomics. It says that in any given year private investment must equal the sum of private savings, corporate savings (retained earnings), and government savings (the government surplus, which is more l…



