Paul Krugman : "It’s a ceteris paribus thing, just like supply and demand." Hans Albert, " Model Platonism: Neoclassical ...

Proof that economic journalists don't need to know any economics: Peter Coy is Bloomberg Businessweek's economics editor: "T...

Because... Marat/Sade. Those fat monkeys covered in banknotes Have champagne and brandy on tap They're up to their eyeballs in fran...

Bernie Becker reports on an interesting proposal in the Senate: Schumer’s bill takes aim at a maneuver known as earnings stripping, a proc...

What Sandwichman learned on his summer vacation Back in July, I had a 10,000 word draft addressing the question: why do defunct ideas pers...

"In too many cases one is unsure of exactly what restraints are being imposed and by what authority the exercise is legitimated. Fit...

Or maybe you prefer "Novorossiya," ("New Russia") the name given to southeastern Ukraine when Russia conquered it from T...

While I have only seen it reported in small print deep in an article in the Financial Times, evidence of the newly expansionary monetary pol...

Today’s New York Times has a great article on the funding of Washington think tanks by foreign governments.  It seems that some of the “ob...

The first fruits of the CORE project are now available for sampling, and of course I had to taste it for myself.  This is an international ...

At Worthwhile Canadian Initiative , Nick Rowe writes: "Those of us who teach Intro Economics know we have to spend some time careful...

Indeed? Wealth is everything, men are absolutely nothing? What? Wealth itself is only something in relation to taxes? In truth, then, there...

At least in Hesse, Uber won’t be able to offer its peer-taxi service due to a ruling by a court in Frankfurt .  No, they weren’t objecting t...

Two days ago my deep friend of a half century, William ("Billie") J. Grogan "blew his brains out," as it was first repor...

"It is fairly obvious," John Maurice Clark, explained to Irving Fisher, Frank Knight and other participants in a 1920 American Eco...