www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trumpshit Well, folks, it turns out that I did not coin the term, "Trumpshit."  It has bee...

Global warming? "It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions." According to Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump...

Trumpshit: A Definition A person is a piece of Trumpshit if they are a Trump supporter who aggressively spreads fake news in various media...

Fighting off a Trump-induced melancholy, Krugman has posted a brief analysis of the expected effect of a potential across-the-board tariff....

Martin Sklar's disaccumultion thesis is a restatement and reinterpretation of passages in Marx's Grundrisse that have come to be k...

Kellyanne Conway, " The Microeconomic Effects of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11: Americans Helping Americans ," 16 Notre Da...

I’m hoping Santa brings me a new winter coat but if he is comparison shopping between Old Navy and Banana Republic, note they are both owned...

Jared Bernstein is wrong. The "robots did it!" story DOES NOT require an acceleration in productivity growth, as conventionally m...

OK, so maybe this is another thing we should ignore, but Trump coming out with his call for the US to increase its stockpile of nuclear weap...

That is a claim made on Monday by Robert J. Samuelson in the Washington Post, who argues that while he "had plenty of help, including f...

The UBI must be gaining headway; it got a big writeup in today’s New York Times.  The article centers on an experiment underway in Finland,...

There’s a nice chart in today’s New York Times, part of which I’m taking the liberty to reproduce here; it shows were Donald Trump stands i...

Kevin Drum spots a rare bit of honesty from Rich Lowry : It’s easy to see things like the Carrier deal, the jawboning of the likes of Boei...

All play and no work makes Paul Krugman a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist. What is Krugman's implicit assumption  in the above ...

I have been reading something Lawrence Summers wrote over 12 years ago. A lot of interesting comments but let me pick out one key segment: ...