More often than not, you get what you pay for.
According to economist John Taylor of Stanford University, the Federal Reserve got us the financial instability we see today by buying its way out of the 2001 recession.
Taylor is most famously known for recommending a rules-based economic policy, appropriately called the Taylor Rule. The rule instructs [...]

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In the 1960s were heard the rally cry of  “give peace a chance”.  As was also true in that decade, the rally cry today is to give government spending more of a chance.  Apparently, we are all Keynesians once again.
To be a Keynesian suggests support for a theory that has never been fully tested.  John [...]

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Drs. Steven Van Der Ploeg and Peter Crabb are debating the stimulus bill, and dueling it out in the Idaho Statesmen.  The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives recently passed their own versions of a stimulus bill, and Congress is now working for a compromise to place before President Obama.  Our own two professors of [...]

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On November 2nd the NNU Accounting Club supported the first annual “Run For Your Life” to raise money for the nonprofit organization “Extra Hands for ALS”.  Nearly 130 runners and walkers completed the two mile course in Caldwell, Idaho, and many runners dressed in costumes appropriate for the Halloween season. 
Pledges and money raised will be used by “Extra [...]

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