In the summer of 1959, Loren Goldner and I hung out together at the City of Berkeley's Camp Cazadero. Loren called me "Stick" ...

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread ....

The story is told by three of the key actors, Frances Perkins, Leon Keyserling and Rexford Tugwell, of how the Roosevelt administration, in ...

Luddites weren't wrong about losing their jobs, they were just wrong about the economy losing jobs in aggregate. --  Dietrich Vollrath ...

We have been witnessing a somewhat muted round two of the debate over the intergenerational effects of fiscal deficits.   Paul Krugman got ...

Dean Baker today, to whom I seem never able to link, sarcastically opened his post today at Beat the Press about the column in today's W...

"The forty-hour week adopted 30 years ago needs re-examination to determine whether or not a shorter work week, without loss of wages, ...

I’m not joking.  Read this interview transcribed on Grist .  In this first installment, Klein makes two arguments: (1) Because of low oil pr...

Never let a crisis go to waste.  The depression in Greece has made the old rules unenforceable, and free-market economics has arisen to fill...

Nearly four years ago the former Qaddafi regime of Libya was in the process of disintegrating as many internal  rebels, backed by foreigners...

The the post-meeting press conference was pretty dispiriting, but behind closed doors there was a clash of weltanschauungs.  I’m privy to ev...

Sorry, I think Paul Krugman’s grad school friendship with Mario Draghi has blinded him to the obvious .  Syriza, via Varoufakis, has refused...

Some time ago I also posted on reports in the Washington Post that newly elevated King Salman of Saudi Arabia is suffering from dementia.  T...

As of yesterday the Brent crude oil price rose above $50 per barrel, and today the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) followed it above to nearly...