Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden focus on the fiscal folly part of the Pledge: The “Pledge to America” budget would mean $11.1 trillion...

It’s Sept. 22, and I’m looking at the news about the departure of Larry Summers from the White House. I agree with most commentators on the...

It just occurred to me, two peas in a pod, and with the witchcraft and all too.

As AP reports the National Bureau of Economic Research has deemed that the Great Recession ended in June 2009. While it is true that real ...

This morning’s New York Times has an article about historic preservation in Italy : because of a shortage of funding, municipalities are re...

In yesterday's WaPo, accessible as one of Mark Thoma's general links, http://www.economistsview.typepad.com , Nouriel Roubini sounde...

Robert Waldmann at Angry Bear has reported that the Census Bureau reports for 2009 that the poverty rate in the US rose to 14.3% of the popu...

Cassidy, John. 2009. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux). 105: "In 1996, wh...

Timothy Homan reports on a recent analysis from Chris Cornell and Mustafa Akcay of Moody’s Analytics that confirms what those of us who hav...

Readers of this blog probably do not need to be reminded of this, but given all the recent surge of anti-Islamic hyseria in the US, it is us...

The good news is that the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported yesterday that the US trade deficit decreased month-on-month from $49.8B to ...

Since I have been placed by Econ Journal Watch in the leading ranks of economists who have signed “liberty-reducing” petitions, I figure I ...

Ezra Klein rightfully criticizes what he calls John Boehner's stale 'two-step job creation plan' as something that could lead t...

The New York Times reports that the emerging democracy of Afghanistan is taking a strong stand against bank bailouts, that was an interestin...