TPMLivewire reports: Every House Republican voted Thursday to reject the proposition that the Bush tax cuts added to the deficit. Joined by...

Back in April 2008, the Sandwichman reviewed an IMF Working Paper on "The Effects of Early Retirement on Youth Unemployment." The...

This morning on CNN , Mitt Romney said: “I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there,” Romney said. “If it needs repai...

It’s amazing, isn’t it, that professional economists could argue about the relationship of identity and equilibrium and fail to come to a q...

I will be visiting Tokyo in the middle of next month. Any contacts or advice would be very much appreciated. Contacting me directly would be...

Brad DeLong constructs a real interest rate series for the past 50 years using the nominal rate on 10-year government bonds minus inflation...

So, Fitch has downgraded Spain, Italy, Belgium, Cyprus, and Slovenia. The market response? Yields on Spanish and Italian bonds fall, and t...

Assuming a picture is worth a thousand words, our graph is offered as an illustration of some wise words from Mark Thoma : We need a tempora...

Despite the title here I absolutely support civilian control of the military in democratically ruled countries. However, in both the US and...

I just returned from seeing “The Mill and the Cross”, the remarkable remake of The Way to Calvary by Pieter Bruegal the Elder.  Some quick ...

The transcript of what Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels said can be found here . When the Blade claims Obama’s policies were pro-poverty, wha...

Today’s mandatory reading is a news report from the New York Times about a film shown in NYPD training sessions entitled “The Third Jihad”....

Maybe not, but there is good reason to think that maybe it is over, even though US gasoline prices were still rising over this past weekend....

At a time when finance is coming under intense scrutiny, it is heartening to learn about hedge funds' concern about human rights. Greece...

Chris Blattman helpfully links to the syllabus for his course on research design and causal inference .  At the end is a list of questions ...