Martin Feldstein

...for its "outrageous" currency policy. He was followed late last week by Martin Feldstein, a former chief economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, who made a similar argument in the pages of the Financial Times. Both noted that the RMB-dollar peg is...

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...to counter the economic downturn. While in favor of a stimulus package, Feldstein expressed concern over the act as written, saying it needs revision to address consumer spending and unemployment more directly. Other economists, including John...

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3. He's a callous right-winger. Summers' academic mentor was conservative economist Marty Feldstein, and he worked for Feldstein at Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers in the early 1980s. Paul Krugman worked there too, so that...

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...expect, like Paul Krugman, a proud Keynesian at The New York Times. There are also some surprises, like President Ronald Reagan's chief economic adviser, Martin Feldstein. Many of the economists say they just don't know whether the...

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...economics, but very few pundits and politicians made the right call so often. So no, there is no equivalency between Krugman and people like Mankiw and Feldstein. You cheapen Feldstein by saying his experience consists of "30 years of...

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