After the fortunate demise of President Trump’s nomination of Republican hustler Stephen Moore for a position on the Federal Reserve, Paul Krugman remarked “Aside from Harvard’s Greg Mankiw, not one prominent Republican economist stepped up to oppose Moore.”1 And indeed “Greg”, as I guess his friends like to call him, gave the news of Steve’s…
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N. Gregory Mankiw is lower than a snake in a wagon’s track
N. Gregory Mankiw is brilliant and prominent, a professor of economics at Harvard University, author of a best-selling introductory economics textbook, and, under President George W. Bush, chair of the president’s board of economic advisors.1 So why he is talking total bullshit on the estate tax in the New York Times? Well, as Greg tells…
N. Gregory Mankiw, aka Jivemaster Greg
Over at New York, Jonathan Chait points me over to the New York Times, where Harvard big-shot Gregory Mankiw is holding forth on the wonders of Robert Downy, Jr., noting that Bob’s latest performance as “Iron Man” was so abfab that the $50 mil Downy got up front for the film doesn’t upset people—“ when…