Part of what interested me in the article was the time requirement to find the best price. Economists tell us that prices are supposed to b...

The American Economic Review has a fascinating article that inadvertently points to a relatively insecure, but significant negative conseque...

The LA Times featured a debate between Jason Furman and Steven Landburg where Jason opened up with a nice discussion of how Lord Keynes mig...

I'm far from an expert on credit, so I'm posting this, hoping that some of you may contribute to my education. My understanding is t...

Until a recent Washington Post op-ed piece, I was unaware that the federal government, in particular the Treasury Department's Office of...

As we worry about a US recession, BusinessWeek says the Chinese are hoping for one: In China, some people might be looking forward to a U.S...

Jonah Goldberg is not wrong about everything in his mostly annoying book, _Liberal Fascism_. Thus, the term "fascism" has been to...

I have never seen how Second Life works, but I am fascinated by the game's connections with the real economy -- often replicating some o...

My recent post about the two faces of Bill Gates brought some comparison with Carnegie. There is an interesting difference between the two. ...

The front page of the Washington Post today reports that the current US Transportation Secretary, Susan Peters, has thrown up impossible bar...

Gates just gave a speech advocating a kindler, gentler capitalism, posing a good brother to the poor. At the same time, Microsoft is embark...

The Ken Griffin interview got me to think about some earlier contributions about his thinking. A Pennsylvania businessman wrote a book with ...

Anybody interested in a spoof on Tyler Cowen and his Ethnic Dining Guide of Washington, link to: The Latest Recommendation from the Washin...

CNN reports on the politics of fiscal stimulus: A one-time tax rebate is at the heart of an economic stimulus package being negotiated by H...

This is probably old news to most, but it is very precise and documented. At http://juancole.com today one can find a report on the Center ...