Archive for September, 2008
Smart Economists doing Stupid Things
Monday, September 1st, 2008Princeton Professor and former Fed vice chairman Alan Blinder recently published a piece in the New York Times called Is History Siding with Obama’s Economic Plan? One of his main conclusions is that Democratic presidents are better for economic growth:
“Data for the whole period from 1948 to 2007, during which Republicans occupied the White House [...]