The New York Times has an interesting piece today on the shortcomings of organic agriculture in its current, commercialized form.  They de...

Paul Krugman catches Robert Lucas (not to be confused with Robert Barro - thanks for the comment David) misrepresenting Barro’s claim to ...

Yesterday Italy sold bonds for a little over 3% compared to over 6% in late November. Does this mean the eurocrisis is over? Not necessari...

That would be Dean Baker, briefly a co-blogger on the old maxspeak, who warns that the recent upbeat reports on housing are not reliable, wi...

So, the US military has lowered the battle flag and the last official military have now left Iraq, although there will still be some engaged...

Of course the first would be invading Iraq. But a close second not often remembered or even realized occurred two months into his term of o...

He doesn't have principles students telling him, on a final exam, that, for instance, the "shoe-leather costs" of inflation st...

North Korea (DPRK) officially follows an ideology developed by its founder, Kim Il Sung, known as KimIlSungism (really), which his just dece...

While all had known that Kim Jong Il had long been seriously ill, his death on Saturday of a heart attack in a train has taken many by surpr...

I was scratching my head as to why any Presidential candidate would say Ben Bernanke should be fired until I read this : "I would, firs...

One of the steadiest hums of our time is liberal indignation at the dishonesty of the Right.  On any given day, you can hear the shock and ...

When the cut was first announced, I wrote that it seemed to pose a threat to Social Security. Now, a few of the Democrats, especially Bernie...

One response would be to point out the irrationality of the agreement itself—the minimal role that fiscal profligacy played in bringing on ...

No it doesn’t.  It almost never is.  To pay back government debt, you have to run a budget surplus, and while there may be modest surpluses...

This morning’s New York Times has a piece about Polish PM Tusk’s avid support for Germany’s stance in EU bargaining.  The article plays u...