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James Kwak

James Kwak is a former McKinsey consultant, a co-founder of Guidewire Software, and currently a student at the Yale Law School. He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario.

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James Kwak's Latest Articles | 133

Health Care Reform: No, Wait! This is What I Really Want!

Sep 16, 2009| 

I try not to comment on purely political issues, but sometimes they are just too infuriating. Over the last few days, Max Baucus has been leaking “his” health... Read »

Obama, the Light Touch?

Sep 14, 2009| 

Edmund L. Andrews and David E. Sanger have an article in The New York Times today that is sure to infuriate some people, including me. Here’s one excerpt: “Far... Read »

Another Year, Another Decline in Employer-Based Health Insurance

Sep 13, 2009| 

Ezra Klein shows the new Census figures on the uninsured. The long-term trend is absolutely clear: employer-based coverage is declining and public coverage is increasing,... Read »

The “Consumer Choice” Fraud

Sep 6, 2009| 1

I’m such a public radio groupie that David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt are minor idols of mine. I get excited on the very occasional occasions when David calls... Read »

Krugman on Economics

Sep 4, 2009| 

This weekend’s New York Times Magazine has the 7,000-word article about the state of macroeconomics that Paul Krugman has been hinting at for some time now. It’s... Read »

Expert Panels and Bipartisan Consensus

Sep 4, 2009| 

Last week, Planet Money aired an interview by Adam Davidson with Barney Frank, the blunt and colorful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Davidson... Read »

The March of Science and Health Care Reform

Sep 2, 2009| 

On a Planet Money podcast two weeks ago, economist Charlie Wheelan weighed in on the significance of genetic testing – the advancing ability of science to determine... Read »

Paulson Was Right (?)

Aug 31, 2009| 3

The New York Times has a story about how the government is making a profit on its TARP investments: “The profits, collected from eight of the biggest banks that... Read »

Larry Summers on Preventing and Fighting Financial Crises

Aug 26, 2009| 

This fall I am taking a course on the “international financial crisis” taught by Jon Macey and Greg Fleming (yes, the former COO of Merrill Lynch). The first... Read »

Health Care Reform: Change or More of the Same?

Aug 24, 2009| 1

Matt Yglesias’s comments on James Surowiecki on the health care reform debate triggered a few thoughts in my head. First, Surowiecki (after describing how... Read »

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