Summary

Edward Leamer has questions about the Treasury's bailout plan, but the question is: does Secretary Paulson have answers? If not, then Leamer proposes a more direct way to spend $700 billion dollars that attacks the root of the problem--housing price declines: call it "trickle up" economics.

Recommended Citation

Leamer, Edward E. (2008) "Please Think This Over," The Economists' Voice: Vol. 5 : Iss. 5, Article 7.
DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1409
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol5/iss5/art7