ProGrowth Liberal just posted interesting information about Martin Feldstein on Social Security. Here is an extract from my new book, The C...

Via Mark Thoma comes an op-ed by Martin Feldstein . Mark focuses on this: As everyone now recognizes, the current 12.4% Social Security emp...

This article shows how securitization has enriched middlemen, while impoverishing lenders. The difference between mortgage rates and Treasur...

James Pethokoukis interviewed Rudy right after the “tax summit” in Manchester, N.H. The Democrats are going to say, "We raised taxes i...

The Saturday/Sunday Wall Street Journal for October 6-7 has a special 11 page advertising section for collecting and investing in luxury wat...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee just issued a White Paper on carbon controls. To its credit, the report makes a reasonable case fo...

When Kash was an Angrybear, he would update us as to the latest from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I would often tag along with something...

by the Sandwichman Welcome to the future: Hurtling unseen, hundreds of miles from the earth, a polished metal sphere the size of a beach bal...

Mark Thoma features the Iraq War surtax proposal endorsed by James McGovern . As a member of the deficit hawk wing of the Democratic Part...

This article condemns Radiohead for ripping off consumers by allowing them to pay what they think is appropriate to download the group's...

from INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION, 10/3/07, by Andy Guess: >That label ["heterodox"] is sometimes reserved for a coterie of economis...

I find this shocking: Shareholders and executives at Airbus parent EADS engaged in "massive" insider trading, a press report said...

David Warsh, longtime reporter with the Boston Globe, covering economics rather than the economy, discussed my new book, comparing it favora...

Carbon sequestration is an excessively expensive and probably technically impossible method of capturing significant amounts of carbon. Plan...

Let me see if I understand this. When someone in Iraq or some other such country hires a private army, we call it a militia. When someone ...