A little more than a year ago, I posted a note using football as a metaphor for the futility of effective regulation. http://michaelperelman...

I have been periodically raging against the ignorance of those who would slash fiscal deficits without regard to fundamental accounting iden...

I was glumly reading this morning’s New York Times article about Spain, where bankruptcy law holds borrowers fully liable for their outsta...

In today's Washington Post business section, Lori Montgomery has a big article on "A renewed focus on spending," starting with...

Angela Doland reports on a bill passed by the French parliament: France's parliament granted final approval Wednesday to a bill raising...

A friend asked if I would collect the urls for my videos. Here they are, beginning with the most recent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ps...

I just posted a new video regarding the ironies of the commodity, taking up from the respective analysis of Marx and Smith and the behavior ...

Golden, Daniel. 2010. “The Homeless at College.” Bloomberg Business Week (30 April). Here is how the article begins: “Benson Rollins wants a...

Bloomberg has an excellent article describing how Google saves billions in taxes. Besides showing how Google constructs its international ne...

The 4% solution proposed by Tim Geithner—countries should try to keep their current account surpluses or deficits within 4% of their GDP—of...

This morning’s New York Times , without any apparent irony, gives us two front page stories in which science and empiricism are rejected in ...

I would have posted on the death of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot on October 14 sooner, but my mother died on Oct. 8, and I have been comp...

Bloomberg Businessweek has done a good job of tracking the scandal of privatized colleges. I will post another piece in which the magazine ...

I just uploaded another YouTube talk on the overview of economic crises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h9xpmM14BU

In the Sunday Times, Mankiw whines about how Obama's desire to let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire reduces his incentives to take...