Noah Glyn

Study: Extending Unemployment Benefits Increased Unemployment by More than 3 Percentage Points

By Noah Glyn January 13, 2014

There has been much debate recently over the merits of extending unemployment benefits — last week, the Senate reached cloture on a bill to do so for three months, and ...

Another Minimum-Wage Fallacy

By Noah Glyn December 20, 2013

Proponents of increasing the minimum wage hold two contradictory views on the subject. First, they say that increasing the minimum wage will increase the size of the economy. President Obama ...

Abbas Boycotts BDS

By Noah Glyn December 16, 2013

In his trip to South Africa last week, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas told reporters something interesting: He opposes efforts to boycott Israel. “No, we do not support the boycott ...

Why Obamacare’s Closing the Donut-Hole Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

By Noah Glyn November 26, 2013

The White House is pushing a recently published CMS report that purports to show a new benefit of Obamacare — it’s closing the dreaded Medicare “donut hole.” A senior administration official quoted in ...

Re: Does the Fed Think the Shutdown Didn’t Hurt the Economy?

By Noah Glyn October 31, 2013

Pat, it should be noted that the FOMC did still include their pithy assessment of fiscal policy, “Fiscal policy is restraining growth,” a line the committee has repeated in every ...

Politics & Policy

Arrested Criticism

By Noah Glyn June 4, 2013

On November 2, 2003, I sat down with my brother in our parents’ basement to watch the first episode of Arrested Development. I don’t know why we decided to watch ...

Was Paul Krugman ‘Right’ on Austerity?

By Noah Glyn May 29, 2013

If you want to see groupthink at its finest, go ahead and Google “Paul Krugman was right.” Here are some of the headlines: Business Insider: “The Economic Argument Is Over — Paul ...