Certain topics seem to be Sisyphean: you do your best to clarify and then, there it is, the boulder of common sense sitting at the bottom of...

CNBC has a report based on an "inside White House source" that Obama has all but decided to appoint Summers as Fed Chair and will ...

David Autor replied to my earlier critique . Here is my response: Dear David Autor, Thanks so much for your thoughtful and prompt reply....

The following excerpt is from an article," How Technology Wrecks the Middle Clas s" by David Autor and David Dorn, that appeared ...

Paul Krugman channels WSJ's Joe Wiesenthal on the argument that the impending debt ceiling is a more dangerous situation for the world e...

I promised a post on Phil Mirowski’s latest book, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown ...

The Washington Post is at it again, the Washington newspaper of record, with a front page story by Zachary A. Goldfarb, "Allies of Fed ...

Paul Krugman notes: But no modern user of IS-LM forgets that the diagram must be drawn for a given expected rate of inflation, and that la...

"How many Virginians does it take to change a light bulb? Five: One to change the bulb and four to talk about how great the old bulb w...

While President Obama is still conveniently off vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, the Washington Post has a front page story today on Ja...

"If anyone wants to argue that Milton Friedman is now unimportant to modern economics, that's like saying Bob Dylan is unimportant ...

These guess-who-said-it exercises are pretty much obsolete in the internet era; you can just look up the quotes online, in somewhat the same...

Let’s begin with one of these greedy workers.  Or maybe he was one of the people who fret about the workers’ pensions? Maremont, Mark. 2013...

So, President Obama has made some vague promises to review current policies about NSA surveillance and possible limits on it, appointing som...

This is an extract from a book that Vincent Portillo and I are writing, The Matrix: An Exploration of the Interactions between the Econ...