Interview with Douglas Holtz-Eakin: Career, Budgets, Deficits
Mark A. Wynne of the Dallas Fed has one-hour interview: "Douglas Holtz-Eakin on Economic Projections, Deficits and Climate Change" (December 12, 2019). Holtz-Eakin has had an eminent academic career at Columbia and currently at Syracuse, but he is perhaps most widely for his time as head of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003-2005. Audio is available, but no full transcript. Here are some comments from Holtz-Eakin:
- 19/12/2019
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Carbon Capture and Storage
In my experience, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is often viewed as a quirky technological possibility, not of central significance to the overall issue of reducing the rise of atmospheric carbon. This perception is incorrect. The Global CCS Institute provides an overview in Global Status of CCS 2019. As the report notes:
- 18/12/2019
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Interview with Daron Acemoglu: Wellsprings of Growth
Tyler Cowen conducts one of his rich and illuminating "Conversations with Tyler" in "Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society" (Medium.com, December 4, 2019, both audio and transcript available). Here are a few tidbits from Acemoglu, but there's much more at the link:
- 17/12/2019
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Remembering Paul Volcker: 1927-2019
Paul Volcker, who was chair of the Federal Reserve from August 1979 to August 1987 has died. He is generally credited, or in some cases blamed, for the set of monetary policies which both ended the inflationary period of the 1970s but also brought on the very deep double-dip recessions of 1980 and 1981-2. The New York Times obituary is here.
- 11/12/2019
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Why Mississippi Deserves More Federal Aid, and Massachusetts Less
Imagine two school districts in a metropolitan area in the same state: one with higher incomes and property values, and the other with lower incomes and property values. Say that the schools are funded by local property taxes. Thus, if the same property tax rate applies to both school districts, children in the district with higher incomes and property values will have a lot more spent on their education than children in the district with lower incomes and property taxes.
- 11/12/2019
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