WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 10, 2010 Lessons From the Swedish Welfare State New research shows bigger government means slower growth. Our country is a prime example. By ANDREAS BERGH AND MAGNUS HENREKSON Americans are debating whether to substantially expand the size of their government. As Swedish economists who live in the developed world’s largest welfare […]
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JULY 12, 2010 U.S. Weighs Tax That Has VAT of Political Trouble By JOHN D. MCKINNON At least 139 countries, including most major economies except the U.S., levy a value-added tax on goods and services. Amid swelling deficits, there are increasingly loud calls in Washington for adopting a value added tax. John McKinnon discusses. But
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JUNE 26, 2010 The Keynesian Dead End Spending our way to prosperity is going out of style. Today’s G-20 meeting has been advertised as a showdown between the U.S. and Europe over more spending “stimulus,” and so it is. But the larger story is the end of the neo-Keynesian economic moment, and perhaps the start
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD A Predictable Crisis Europe’s single currency was bound to break down. BY Martin Feldstein June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 The current crisis of the European single currency was an accident waiting to happen. The adverse consequences of imposing a single currency on a disparate group of countries were initially hidden
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JUNE 5, 2010 Slouching Towards Athens The Obama agenda and the Europeanization of America. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS Our friends across the Atlantic are fond of saying that Europeans work to live while Americans live to work. According to the data, they are basically right. Statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show
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