In President Obama's victory speech last night, he touched on a theme that he has stressed on two previous, conspicuous occasions: ...

I don’t know if opinion is more polarized in the US than it used to be.  I do feel, however, that the rhetoric has become more polarized. ...

Benjy Sarlin listens to Mitt Romney so we don’t have to: Today’s increase in the unemployment rate is a sad reminder that the economy is a...

Sahil Kapur reports on something that does not surprise me on two levels: The author of a Congressional Research Service study, who found ...

Oh, I just cannot resist this, :-).  So the Great October Surprise turns out to be a monster Frankenstorm/Snowicane combining a hurricane wi...

The German composer died the other day at the age of 86, productive until near the end.  Listen again to Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of t...

I just got around to seeing this wonderful Iranian film (in video).  This comment will be semi-spoiler, so read at your own risk. It is f...

Mitt Romney is debating Larry Summers whether his managed bankruptcy proposal would have saved Detroit? Romney has said he would have save...

Thanks to John Weeks , I see this quote from Merkel speaking before the Bundestag last week: We have made good progress on strengthening ...

Deborah Solomon provides some important political news as well as a bit of good policy analysis. Mitt Romney has told us we need to someho...

David Warsh at economic principals, http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2012.10.21/1429.html has provided useful information about Llo...

Last spring I was interviewed on our local NPR outlet about energy economics.  Among other things I pointed out the well-established costs o...

This came up when I was writing homework problems on adverse selection for a money and banking class and without intending to, wrote one tha...

Noah Smith has an excellent discussion of what he calls “Reinhart-Rogoff vs. Bordo-Haubrich (with grandstanding by John Taylor)”. Please r...

You would think that everything that needs to be said about this topic has been put on the table in the past few weeks.  (I will skip the l...