Mark Thoma today links to a story in Der Spiegel about a visit to Japan by new German Foreign Minister, Heike Maas.  He met with PM Shinzo A...

Via TalkingPointsMemo AP notes: Private forecasters cautioned that the April-June pace is unsustainable because, they say, it stems from t...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) has a plan to get Saudi Arabia off oil, with an immediate push to create 1.2 million private se...

So Sean Hannity would have us believe this evening after the press conference earlier today by Trump and EU Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker...

And maybe dairy farmers as well.  As suggested in a recent post here, indeed it will be by using the Commodity Credit Corporation, and Trump...

Shinobu Hashmoto just died at age 100. His original screenplay for the greatest movie ever made in Japan was initially written while he w...

No, folks, it was not the much ballyhooed issue of Russian election interference in 2016, which got so much attention because of Trump's...

In the history of antitrust law, one of the most important rulings by the US Supreme Court came in 1945, when the Aluminum Company of Americ...

Chinese tariffs on US soybean exports have now kicked in, with China half the US soybean market, and exports much more important for soybean...

Josh Marshall provides a nice discussion of the difference between how NATO is funded versus how much each of its members spends on nationa...

Perhaps no topic generates such bewilderment between economists and the general public as the monetary valuation of human life, or the value...

Dr. Joseph Francois and Laura M. Baughman are being criticized for writing: This policy brief examines the potential net impacts on U.S. j...

Scott Pruitt increasingly looks the worst of the worst out of the appalling cabinet of President Trump, quite aside from his race to become ...

David Gelles interviewed Richard and Holly Branson for The New York Times Saturday David Gelles (NYT): What do you think those in positio...

Excerpts from "The Effect of an Eight Hours' Day on Wages and the Unemployed" by  Charles Beardsley, Jr. ( The Quarterly Journ...