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I’ve just returned from several very enjoyable days in Dresden: a lot of museums, some music, and plenty of superb Saxon wine, which you can...

The New York Times Headline Says It all. This beats Greenspan some of Greenspan's worst predictions. LINK

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I saw an open letter from economists advocating more fiscal stimulus. Obviously the Republicans and their Blue-Dog Demo allies make this a l...

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The Sacramento Bee reported that some people in California are wearing T-shirts bearing the cryptic words, "Cobol Is My Hero." Peo...

There’s a nice post today (or yesterday, depending on what time zone your brain is in) by Rajiv Sethi on the effort to bring back non-equil...

Notre Dame exiled its heterodox economists to a separate department. Now it is about to execute a death sentence for the department. Appar...

There is no way to paint a pretty color on the bad news: the Democrats have abandoned any hope of passing a climate bill this year. If the ...

What’s wrong with this picture ? Historically, self-financed candidates have tended to lose. The National Institute on Money in State Politi...

Please take a look at this fine analysis by Michael Pettis. It cuts through the nonsense about the almighty debt-to-GDP ratio that dominat...

That iconoclast Phil Mirowski has published a paper in The Hedgehog Review, "The Great Mortification: Economists' Responses to the...

The starting point is the budget identity: the sum of all budget positions in a country, public and private combined, is equal to the curren...