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A Conversation with Alex Brill
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY NAHUEL FEFER Introduction: Mr. Brill served as the Chief Economist of the House Committee on Ways and Means from 2002 to 2007. In this role he helped shape the Bush tax cuts, and worked on a variety of other issues related to economic policy. Since 2007 he has worked as a research…
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Icarus: Plight of the Bitcoin Investor
BY ARI MOSES One Saturday afternoon in 2009, a group of tech-savvy friends and colleagues were talking about how they could revolutionize the technology world. After much debate, they finally decided on creating a crypto currency with layered encryption, untraceable e-addresses, and open sources, all the while being unregulated by any monetary regulatory institution. It…
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Deleveraging: The Real Crisis
Michael Kinsley asks Republicans to make a choice: You can have less debt or you can have more jobs: Now, you can criticize this policy from many perspectives. You can say, with liberal economists like Paul Krugman, that the stimulus wasn’t big enough. The economy is still wobbly at best. We should have spent double…
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The Belly of the Beast: Chapter 3
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the third chapter in the increasingly outlandish chronicles of [REDACTED]’s most recent work. I’d like to think it’s fiction, but with this guy you can never really know. The first chapter may be found here, and the second here.] The man reentered the tent with a friend. The friend was…
