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Bashing Beijing Will Not Help Our Trade Deficit [WSJ]

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Higher wages, not a stronger yuan, will help Chinese workers and reduce U.S. imports.

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GMU’s Tyler Cowen on “Too Big To Save”

Submitted by Bob Pozen on September 27, 2009 – 4:35 pm

Professor Tyler Cowen reviews *Too Big to Save*, by Robert Pozen:

“Robert Pozen’s Too Big to Save: How to Fix the U.S. Financial System is the single best source for figuring out what happened. It is the go-to book if you are a non-specialist and want to understand: how credit default swaps work, the significance of Basel II, mark-to-market, how the various Fed bailouts operated, the meaning of the toxic asset plans, and many other matters.”

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The NYT Op-Ed page editors asked six experts to recommend specific fixes that could be part of a comprehensive reform package for the nation’s largest social insurance program. Cut Benefits, But Do It Fairly by Robert Pozen. How do we maintain Social Security in the fairest way? Consider progressive indexing, which would preserve benefits for the bottom third of wage earners who rely on the program for almost all of their retirement income, but recalculate the benefits of higher-paid workers who have ..read more

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