I’m going to be on CNN’s Your $$$$$ this Saturday and Sunday, talking with Ali Velshi about what the next president can really do about your $$$$$. Or your $$$. Or your $$$$. But not your $ or your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, because I try to appeal to a middle-class audience. Ali is, as far as I [...]
Takeuchi Cullen writes that she didn’t go because “besides childcare and wardrobe issues, I had a doctor’s appointment I couldn’t move.” Poniewozik just told me he didn’t go because he doesn’t own a tux. And I didn’t go because I was tired, Mrs. CC was about to leave town for a few days, we were [...]
Nancy Folbre, an economics professor at UMass Amherst, e-mails with a couple good criticisms of my “Don’t Ditch the GDP” column: First, no economist that I know of, either on or off the Sarkozy Commission, has advocated ditching GDP. What’s under discussion is the possibility of developing good supplements to it. Second, the viability of [...]
