Vincent Portillo and I are working on a new book, The Matrix: The Intersection of War, Economic Theory, and the Economy.  So far it is still...

Greg Mankiw plays for Team Romney by sending us to Keith Hennessey : Here is your tax levels cheat sheet. • Over the past 50 years federal...

Team Romney is boosting that as governor of Massachusetts (January 2003 to January 2007), he lowered the state’s unemployment rate to 4.7%. ...

One of the more painful spillovers from the Eurozone crisis is that, from time to time, I have to try to make sense of the writings of Hans...

Greg Mankiw calls this competition. So why do I suspect there is more coordination to put forth the Republican view that we need less tax...

Can David read Mitt Romney’s mind? When you look at Mitt Romney through this prism, you see surprising passion. By picking Paul Ryan as hi...

Good that Robert Frank wants to put climate change back on the agenda and points to the necessity of pricing carbon.  No matter which way ...

Take a listen to this Earl Scruggs tune as we read the Romney-Ryan Energy Plan . They are promising energy independence on a platform that ...

Dealbook notes the acquisition of Coventry Health Care by Aetna as a trend in this sector: Aetna’s acquisition of Coventry is the latest d...

In this Sunday's Washington Post, George Will excoriates the 1972 book, Limits to Growth (LtG) for making failed forecasts that we would...

Uwe Reinhardt lays out what seems to be a central theme in the conservative critique of ObamaCare as he cites this NYTimes discussion: Th...

Paul Krugman mocks the idea that Paul Ryan is a fiscal hawk by evaluating what his policy proposals mean for the next decade: So if we loo...

The Weekly Standard quotes Paul Ryan’s claim that it will: Medicare’s non-partisan chief actuary, Richard Foster, has been clear on this p...

Admittedly this has become hard to say now that there are at least three, if not four, such versions.  There were at least two Ryan budget p...

Greg Mankiw lets us know that John Taylor has responded to a brief critique from Paul Krugman . John tells us that “Paul Krugman is Wrong...