Yes, I think so.  It was his tweet on Monday when he took credit for the move by Saudi Arabia and some other Arab nations to cut diplomatic ...

I’ve just read the suitably downbeat piece by Thomas Edsall about the travails of the Democratic Party in today’s New York Times.  Edsall, ...

Suppose you are the CFO of a U.S. company that needs to borrow $1 billion over the next 5 years for a planned expansion and you are receivin...

Well, maybe it has blown itself up, but Trump's supposedly triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia looks to have exacerbated underlying tension...

DangItIowa and I both endured the Meet the Press interview with the EPA Director: Scott Pruitt was on Meet the Press today and claimed tha...

Peter Dorman calls attention to a NYT Upshot column by Neil Irwin about the cost of climate change. For Irwin, the question can be framed ...

Greg Mankiw’s first macroeconomic textbook correctly noted that the mix of Volcker’s tight monetary policies and the 1981 tax cut led to a f...

You know there are problems with economics when things that are perfectly reasonable in the context of economic theory are clearly ...

Jonathan Chait listens to President Trump so we don’t have to: China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we ...

Tierney Steed notes that the OMB Director is not happy with how the CBO scored TrumpCare: It’s become the knee-jerk reaction for Republica...

I have been assiduously following my institution’s recommendations regarding preferred student pronouns.  Students announce their pronouns o...

Right wing media sources have been all ablaze in the past few days with stories about PC-inspired thuggery at Evergreen State College.  Unfo...

Larry Mishel and Josh Bivens enlist zombie government policy ponies in their battle against " the zombie robot argument ": Techn...

Given Donald Trump's new commitment to support military adventurism by Saudi Arabia in Yemen and more generally against Iran, it might b...

Following up on my post from two weeks ago, Immiseration Revisited , I built a spreadsheet replica of the marvelous Chapman diagram. In addi...