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Max Novendstern

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Elizabeth Warren and Moral Hazard

HuffPo is reporting that Tim Geithner has expressed opposition to Elizabeth Warren's nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- a department that...

Weighing In: China and the Race to Green Tech

Jeff Kalmus argues that the idea of a "race" between China and the United States over green tech (suggested by Will Rafey here) is misguided....

What's not to love?

Theda Skocpol is not one to mince words. Here she is, in classic form, on fiscal austerity measures: The President, Congressional leaders, and Democrats of...

New Online Only Article!

As we wait for financial regulation reform to make its way through its final legislative hurdles, it's a good time to step back and...

BP Speech: Our Storyteller in Chief?

In one hour, Obama addresses the nation about the BP Oil Spill. My question about the speech is simple: "How big will he go?"...

Weighing In: The Big Short

I just finished Michael Lewis' wonderful book The Big Short. In it, Lewis recasts the financial crisis as a tale of heroism, where three...

Taking Stock of the Spill

Apparently, Obama's BP Oil Spill performance has been a total disaster. Just check the news. He's weak, aloof, unemotive, Maureen Down explains. "Mr. President,...

John Dewey and Modern Economics

The New Republic has reprinted a wonderful Depression-era essay by John Dewey about the collapse of what he calls the "romanticism of business": But it was...

Three Weeks of HPRgument

We began The HPRgument with the goal of creating a new space on campus for lively discussion of the things that matter -- political,...

Weighing In: The Tea Party Movement

Sam Barr lambasts the Crimson for "condescending" the Tea Partiers: I really don’t understand the impulse among many Harvard students (if the Crimson is any guide) to...