Michael Boskin

WSJ op-ed board member: The unemployed prefer sitting on their duffs to working

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Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, WSJ op-ed board member Stephen Moore offers a variety of dubious–and at least one outrageous–opinion on the economy and economic policy. (1) The economy would be in better shape today in the absence of the economic stimulus.  No, it wouldn’t.  Even fellow WSJ contributor Ed Lazear believes that the … Read more

Read Michael Boskin’s lips

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Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Stanford economist Michael Boskin warns that the specter of “growth-destroying confiscatory” tax rates looms if the Obama Administration has its way. Be afraid.  Be very afraid. Or maybe not. The Administration’s proposed changes to the tax code are neither as dramatic not as alarming as Boskin presents. During the … Read more