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Ed Lazear on the Stimulus Package. From the WSJ editorial page Only a small insights from his research on the current debate concerning commodity speculation. Continue reading

Michael Boskin and Edward Lazear take on the economy, discussing the explosion of extended during the previous period of prosperity, the amount of speculation permitted, the

One of the keynote speakers at the 38th Australian Conference of Economists in Adelaide last week was Edward Lazear, who was Chairman of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers from 2006-09. In other words, he was in one of the

Outlaw speculation in fuels and energy products and let the true market, the consumer, dictate the price. Unfortunately not to be because of the rampant corruption of our politicians and bureaucrats as is demonstrated by the author of this tripe and When you read political writers like Edward you'd better understand something about economics. There are major differences between neutral free-market capitalism Adam Smith variety, mercantilism, and corporatism.

Then the morons at the CFTC get on TV and deny speculation plays any part. I even saw ED LAZEAR, some grinning smiling fool on CNBC yesterday spewing the came stupid nonsense. Morons all of them. Here is a tip. . I have read that until fairly recently 20 years ago or less participants in the commodities markets were restricted to those with a legitimate hedging need. One of the big investment banks started the ball rolling by getting special permission to trade on

Then CEA Chair Ed Lazear's statement "The data are pretty clear that we are not in a recession" is slightly less egregious because he was speaking on May 8, 2008, before a lot of the weak data had been reported. . May 2005, Greenspan Mr . Greenspan repeated many of his past reurances about the housing market that any bubbles were local, not national and that people do not speculate as much on houses as they do on stocks, because they generally live in the houses

Thankfully, the Internet has broken down that dominance down a bit because we can read all the capital city dailies easily on-line now until they start charging. This is a minor respite, given how conservative the media is here,

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