In today's Washington Post, the regularly execrable Robert J. Samuelson yet again proves that the only reason anybody thinks he is able ...

Rick Gorka as spokesperson for the Romney campaign claimed: Under this President, unemployment has risen to 8.2% and his administration...

There has been a pas de deux going on between Crooked Timber and Marginal Revolution over whether libertarianism has a coherent and moral...

The day before yesterday, former Obama advisor Austan Goolsbee published a column in the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Supreme Cour...

" Insolvent central banks are lending money to insolvent banks who buy government debt from insolvent governments who lend money to th...

Steven Erlanger reports on the fiscal proposals of the new French government: France’s new Socialist government announced on Wednesday bil...

I am in Paris for a big alternative-economics shindig, and I just had a short conversation that reminded me about the heading of this post....

Admittedly, not all superannuation contributions made by workers in Australia are involuntary but the vast majority would be.  There's b...

Richard Fidler with the Australian Broadcast Commission interviewed Michael Casey, an economist who works for the Wall Street journal, yes...

Greg Mankiw is reminding us of a post from over four years ago : A mandate is only as effective as the penalty backing it up. No one, as fa...

http://samirchopra.com/2012/06/26/david-brooks-went-to-a-springsteen-concert-and-all-i-got-was-this-stupid-op-ed/#comments

...with laughter. This is right up there with Matt Tabibi's take-down of Thomas Friedman: I give you Samir Chopra on David Brooks. htt...

Two days ago I had the privilege to visit the Alp Bach Cooperation (Bergschaften) above Grindelwald, Switzerland in the Berne canton in a va...

So Germany has agreed to use the EU bailout funds for direct lending to banks in Spain and potentially other distressed countries.  Not only...

It’s interesting to find out that “hydraulic Keynesianism” was once really hydraulic, in the form of a Phillips water machine .  I recommend...