In today's Washington Post, Robert J. Samuelson is at it again with a column called "The real Washington," in which he admonis...

Fox Business is claiming that the New York Times got the story as to how Apple avoids paying taxes in the US wrong: But using Apple’s cor...

Paul Ryan’s interview with Jonathan Weisman included a passage that shows how utterly clueless he is noting that the Republican fiscal poli...

Meet the Press featured a debate between Rachel Maddow and Alex Castellanos. When Ms. Maddow noted a recent finding by the Institute for W...

Frank Bruni addresses an issue in his New York Times column this morning that colleges and universities across the country are confrontin...

One way to think about the political economy of macropolicy is to divide people into two camps, those who are motivated primarily by threat...

The public debate over European austerity, so long overdue, is now breaking out.  The baby steps of Hollande in France, the double dip in E...

Mitt Romney apparently agrees with President Obama on extending the 3.4% interest rate on student loans , which puts both of them at odds ...

Via Paul Krugman comes a report from Henry Blodget that a few European leaders have finally figured out: Keynes was right and the Austeri...

My emeritus colleague, John Perkins, asks a deep question about proposed justifications for a precautionary principle: would they, in early...

I’ve just finished watching Jamie Galbraith’s INET talk on inequality (thanks, Yves) and was struck by his geographic discussion toward th...

Pear, Robert. 2012. "Social Security’s Financial Health Worsens." New York Times (24 April): p. A 13. http://www.nytimes.com/20...

First, read these two articles, one from the Harvard School of Journalism , the other from the New York Times , back to back.  A match made...

Economists, always intent on making their work into a science, like to transform their ideas into a "scientific" law. Accordingly,...

Brian Beutler notes another piece of Romney mendacity: in an official statement reacting to the reports, Romney declined to describe the de...