According to a column in FT Weekend by David Gardner, sometime this month the annual parade in Barcelona, capital of Catalonia (standard spe...

Not the usual fare here, but there have been a lot of people claiming that "liberalism is fascism" (and socialism and nazism and c...

Greg Mankiw seems happy that Matt is now educating the rest of us silly economists on the wonders of reducing the tax rate on capital inco...

In his study of anthropology journal citations, " Anthropology Journals: What They Cite and What Cites Them, " published in Curren...

Andy Kessler shows his ignorance of Keynesian economics and puts forth perhaps a new low in supply-side stupidity: This myth—that you can ...

So, now we have it.  The secret tape of Romney speaking to a bunch of wealthy donors in which he says that those supporting Obama include a ...

Larry Kudlow explains why he thinks QE3 will hurt the economy by noting QE2 devalued the dollar. You see – inflation soared! OK – thos...

Chicago teachers are on strike, and the issue is school reform.  What does “reform” mean in education?  It means the end of tenure for teac...

The headline news is that the Federal Reserve has finally adopted QE3. But let’s focus in on what one prominent Republican member of the H...

Hats off to Darian Meacham who says what needs to be said: it is absurd to speak of countries as if they were single individuals (much les...

Credit goes to Media Matters as they watch Faux News so we don’t have to: Fox used a dishonest comparison of two different measures of ...

Yes, what happened 11 years ago today was awful and tragic, and there is much that can be said about and it is worthy of remembrance.  Howev...

Wonkette rightfully rips Dick Cheney for this : Former Vice President Dick Cheney took a shot at President Barack Obama late Monday night ...

Why do writers get to name laws after themselves, when explorers can’t put their own name to mountains, and field biologists can’t do it fo...

Brad DeLong is still unhappy with a paper from Harvey Rosen with one of his many legitimate complaints being: starting with what seems to...