Nate Silver, over at 538, a New York Times blog, has a post today about the “none of the above” option in Nevada. It seems that NOTA is p...

The Charlottesville Daily Progress reports that in the morning of August 30, Judge Paul M. Peatross, Jr. of Albemarle County (around Charlot...

The Wall Street Journal has two articles about German. One describes how German wages are stagnating, despite the expansion. Here is the fi...

As has been widely reported, Co-Chair of the Deficit Reduction Commission, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) told some people from the Elde...

Uwe Reinhardt repeats a familiar refrain from critics of welfare economics, that compensation tests do not erase the value judgments implic...

In an earlier post , I expressed my initial hopes and later disillusionment with Matt Bai. But it’s worse than that, folks. In today’s Tim...

Charles Walgreen was a major influence on Chicago economics, both leading witch hunts against unreliable academics and funding others, inclu...

The current flap over Alan Simpson’s idiotic emails is above all about what kind of guy he is and whether he should be co-leading a high-pr...

In addition to the higher salaries for university executives, academic management is continually becoming more bloated. In effect, picking ...

Today, August 24, 2010, is the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Sterling Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. For the firs...

I tried to tie things together here The url is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8blnkRNq2A

Our graph shows the interest rate on 10-year Treasuries from April 1, 2009 to now. Notice a bit of interest rate volatility with rates at t...

Higher education is not undergoing something like the financial reengineering craze that was so popular and so destructive in corporate Amer...

At a time when the country is getting ready to gut Social Security, Pensions, .... Here is the way our government husbands its resources. W...

A week ago, a Portuguese journalist asked me a few questions about current debates in macroeconomic policy: fiscal stimulus and monetary exp...