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"It would be hard to design a more ineffective stimulus than what we have."
Considering the problems states are facing right now it's obvious geting a lot more money to the states right now would have a substantial impact (expecially is saving jobs).
Commented Jul 14, 2009 on Effects of the Stimulus Package: in Which the Usually Sharp-Eyed Felix Salmon Is Wrong! at Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong
Effects of the Stimulus Package: in Which the Usually Sharp-Eyed Felix Salmon Is Wrong!
Felix Salmon: >Why I’m unconvinced by calls for a second stimulus package: Let me try to hazard an answer to that. Start with the guiding assumption, as stated by Larry Summers when the stimulus bill was going through Congress, that the risks of spending too much paled in comparison with the risk...
Warning: Wonkish computer stuff: The article doesn't make it clear if it's just pure source code since they mention "data" as well. And we are also missing lots of other details, like whether it includes all of the dependencies or not. For a comparison the KDE 3.x tarballs are around 350-400MB and that's with bzip2 compression (KDE being a popular desktop environment on Linux and UNIX systems). So uncompressed it's probably closer to 750MB to 1GB (and that's being conservative). And that doesn't count dependencies. So I'm sorry, but 32MB does not really seem like a lot of code these days.
Commented Jul 6, 2009 on Burning Chrome... at Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong
Burning Chrome...
Greg Farrell: >Former Goldman employee accused of cyber-theft: Law enforcement officials in the US arrested a former Goldman Sachs employee over the July 4 holiday weekend, accusing him of stealing sensitive automated trading codes and uploading them to a server based in Germany. Sergey Aleynikov...
Off-topic: What's up with the new fontsize and color used for quoted text? I'm using Intrnet Explorer 7 and they are barely readable! Great post by the way!
Commented Jul 2, 2009 on That Fiscal Stimulus Packages Work Is "Not Controversial," Says Bush CEA Chair Greg Mankiw at Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong
That Fiscal Stimulus Packages Work Is "Not Controversial," Says Bush CEA Chair Greg Mankiw
He said it back in 2003, when it was a Bush stimulus rather than an Obama stimulus program. But sauce for the goose... Mark Thoma deals the deck: >Economist's View: "Deficits are Worrisome, but Not as Worrisome as an Economy that is Not Growing and is Rapidly Shedding Jobs": What do you think of ...
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