Why write a new speech when an old one will do? Here is the relevant section from a speech I wrote for Obama on this site when he was runn...

UPDATE: The madness has percolated over to Michigan, where conservatives are demanding emails of labor studies faculty..... about the situat...

“..the government believes that the meltdown [of fuel rods at No 2 reactor] is only temporary.”[1] “…the radioactive releases of iodine-131 ...

Brad DeLong is not happy with something Greg Mankiw wrote: The seeds of this crisis were planted long ago, by previous generations. Our pa...

Having argued a few days ago that a partition between East and West in Libya might be an outcome based on their long history of disunity and...

“We have not four but 13 reactors out of control now. Thirteen reactors have lost capacity to cool. Once a reactor loses capacity to cool, t...

This extract comes from The Confiscation of Economic Prosperity. It serves as a reminder that this crazy demand for austerity should not co...

A nice rant about economists not understanding biology or living up to its intellectual standards has been bouncing around the blogosphere....

Now I see how Arnold Kling has gotten so confused: The difference being that you might one day see a unicorn. A liquidity trap requires 1. ...

The new war in Libya is so new and fluid that it is hard to determine what is really going on or will go on, but I think a highly likely out...

I had a nice interview at the Left Forum with a representative of very interesting platform. I was mostly covering material from The Inv...

Menzie Chinn agrees with Paul Krugman that real interest rates during the 1980’s were very high, but then he also notes an email from Arno...

Arnold Kling confused nominal versus real interest rates here: Many people predicted that the Reagan deficits would produce soaring interes...

It is increasingly clear that the Arab nations with lots of oil to export also have better means to crush their uprisings than the leaders i...

Larry Bivens reports on how a few freshmen Republican Congressmen are being criticized by their constituents for voting to eliminate the Wo...