Macroeconomic Updates

This year has brought a lot of good changes, relaunching this blog (using Wordpress), switching to an automated subscription service for updates (using Feedburner), and streamlining video posts (using a Webcam and YouTube). You can also follow me on Facebook and Twitter now too.
Now that my semester is over, I’d like to shift my focus [...]

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One of the issues I am contemplating (and have mentioned in one of the video posts) is the future of macroeconomics.  If you think about the history of macroeconomics we have had two major revolutionary changes:  the Keynesian Revolution of the 1930s and the Rational Expectations Revolution of the 1980-90s [...]

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The Obama Administration has promised “change we can believe in.”  Let us hope that this change also extends to how we administer foreign aid.  Senators Kerry & Lugar have a plan that is a step in the right direction for Pakistan.  But…maybe it doesn’t take “change” far enough.  Click on the video link to hear [...]

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Wadie Habiby (TEMBA ‘07) asked me to comment on the Administration’s attempted crackdown on the “checkbox” tax loop hole that allows US corporations to avoid paying taxes by shifting income to offshore subsidiaries.  Here are my thoughts (in the video below).  Please leave a comment and tell me what you think.

All the best,
M. Brandl
Permalink: http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/brandl/2009/05/06/is-closing-tax-loopholes-just-the-start/

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