Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of the Washington Post. In the March 16 issue he actually has a signed column praising the Obama ap...

Jim Devine posted an article on Benoit Mandelbrot on my pen-l list condemning economists' appropriation of physics. I covered some of t...

Greg Mankiw calls President Obama a deficit dove who loves to spend. Mankiw also accuses the White House of economic optimism: they expect...

by the Sandwichman Brad DeLong meanders out to the edge of the abyss of knowing but at the last minute pulls back in horror, clutching his ...

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I just added a draft -- quickly composed today -- of section to put in my new book. It will go into a section showing the lengths to which ...

Alan Greenspan has a self-serving piece in the Wall Street Journal . Those evil Asians with their savings glut did us in & poor Alan was...

The Washington Times tries to ridicule Paul Krugman: Harvard economics Professor Greg Mankiw thinks that Mr. Obama's growth forecasts a...

by the Sandwichman What a delusion, to think that by spending twenty-six years digging, with a sliver of broken reason, a tunnel whose start...

Steve Benen has a little fun with the latest nonsense from Amity Shlaes : I'm a big science-fiction fan, so when I heard that conservat...

This short essay briefly describes the financial side of my interpretation that the crash reflected a disconnect between the underlying inve...

While Sam Malone and the Boston bar called Cheers were only make believe, Eddie Doyle tended bar at the Bull & Finch since 1974. One h...

Now that everybody is all over the Fed for all of our problems, I guess I shall be idiosyncratic and defend the institution. I think that t...

The History of Economics Society has announced that Larry Moss died on February 24, cause unknown, although he had suffered from various ill...

The Sacramento Bee reports that California's Employment Development Department spent $1.1 million to Verizon, which played a recorded me...