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<title><![CDATA[Edward Lazear - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18948.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Edward Lazear]]></description><category domain="18948">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Tax Plan Would Spur Growth]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump&rsquo;s tax plan leaves many details undefined, but there is plenty to evaluate. The administration claims its proposed changes would encourage growth and make the tax system more efficient. History suggests they will.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Can Hit 3% Growth--Maybe]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Edward P. Lazear writes that Trump can maybe reach 3% growth if he overhauls the tax code, encourages investment and puts Americans back to work. Then pray for luck.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed Missed Its Chance. Now What?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The business cycle is peaking, with no interest-rate increase.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Recovery Limps Along]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A number of current and former governors will be running for president in 2016, and each will tout his state&rsquo;s accomplishments and claim credit for the positives, deserved or not. Politics aside, cross-state comparisons provide a real-world experiment that helps show which economic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Solving the Puzzle of Stagnant Wages]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The elation over wage increases in private business reported in last month&rsquo;s job report has been replaced by disappointment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Jan. 16 that average hourly earnings fell five cents in December, eating up most of the six-cent increase in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hidden Rot in the Jobs Numbers]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most commentators viewed the February jobs report released on March 7 as good news, indicating that the labor market is on a favorable growth path. A more careful reading shows that employment actually fell&mdash;as it has in four out of the past six months and in more than one-third of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How &quot;Debt Ceilings&quot; Increase Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/24/how_debt_ceilings_increase_debt_120447.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent wrangling in Washington over the debt ceiling, with both sides promising to return to battle early next year, never got around to considering this proposition: Maybe debt ceilings are a bad idea, because they may lead to increased spending.A debt ceiling may seem like a good...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Jobless Disaster]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The market tanked Wednesday on bad preliminary job news. And so, when Friday's jobs report is released, the unemployment rate and the number of new jobs will come in for close scrutiny. Then again, they always attract the most attention. Even the Federal Reserve focuses on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Should We Value Immigrants?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/28/how_should_we_value_immigrants_118578.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How should we value immigrants? Most of the discussion in the immigration debate leaves implicit this key question. Yet behind the recommendations for immigration reform is some notion of why immigration is useful and what goal we are trying to achieve by offering outsiders admission...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware the Monthly Jobs-Report Chatter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/05/beware_the_monthly_jobs-report_chatter_117828.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[April 5 brings us another "jobs day," the first Friday in each month, when the latest employment numbers come out. With much business-media fanfare, the numbers will be parsed for what they tell us about the economy and where it is headed. The jobs numbers do contain some valuable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worst Economic Recovery in History]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How many times have we heard that this was the worst recession since the Great Depression? That may be true&mdash;although the double-dip recession of the early 1980s was about comparable. Less publicized is that our current recovery pales in comparison with most other recoveries,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Job Market Feels So Dismal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why don't American workers feel that the labor market is on the mend? After all, the May 6 jobs report could suggest that the labor market is improving. Nonfarm employment rose by 244,000 and employment growth over the last three months is averaging over 200,000 per month. With...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stimulus and the Jobless Recovery]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the news that GDP grew at 3.5% in the third quarter, it seems apparent that economic recovery is underway. How much of this was a result of government programs? To evaluate this, it is important to understand what constitutes a recovery. There are three developments needed to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Need a Second Stimulus?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Edward Lazear</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In "Brewster's Millions," a comedy starring Richard Pryor, a man is told he can keep $300 million if he manages to spend $30 million in one month. The movie documents -- with a great deal of humor -- his difficulties getting the money spent. The Obama administration is currently facing a...]]></description>
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