CNNMoney reports: President Obama on Monday called for a two-year freeze in the wages of federal employees. The freeze, which would need co...

It is like living in a dream—a very bad dream. Everything seems at once real and imaginary, serious and deliriously impossible. The langua...

Yesterday's Washington Post contained a column by ardently neoconner Charles Krauthammer on "The Irrelevance of START" (Strate...

"In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, a number of sites tha...

Sandwichman has his own web log. It's called Ecological Headstand because it stands William Rees's "Ecological Footprint"...

This does not refer to an observation about international political economy but Barry Eichengreen himself. He seems like a very nice guy an...

Amazon is listing the cost for a pre-order at $12.78.

That’s all I can say after reading this dreadful critique of Krugman’s writings on Japan that appeared on Common Dreams, along with almost ...

Brad DeLong asks an interesting and very pertinent question: what are the motives behind those who are screaming that the Fed is stoking th...

Reuters reports on why some Republicans oppose QE2: The Fed's $600 billion quantitative easing program "introduces significant unc...

One is the great animated film about the sort-of dentist who pulls off a jaw-dropping heist while musing on “The Secret of the Sierra Madre...

I’ve been ruminating for a few days on this post by Brad DeLong defending Larry Summers. Here is Brad’s version: Summers (and Brad himself...

Having read the latest supply-side silliness from Art Laffer , I think we should ask Stanford University how they ever gave a Ph.D. in econo...

The short answer is yes regarding the price of gold, although I think I avoided making my most incorrect predictions public on this or other...

Now that Obama has initiated Phase II of his presidency with yet another craven retreat—this time on the Bush tax cuts—perhaps we should tak...