In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union, Kellyanne Conway said, "I’m a victim of sexual assault, I don’t expec...

Yes, I am weighing in on this overly hyped story on the problematic proposal by President Trump to appoint Brett Kavanaugh to the SCOTUS.  O...

Nobody is calling it that, but the low key story on the back pages of today's major papers report that this is what has happened, not to...

As the number of workmen that can be kept in employment by any particular person must bear a certain proportion to his capital, so the numb...

Many thanks to Peter Dorman for highlighting Citizens United As Bad Corporate Law . I guess we had to endure this comment, which is a real...

I saw this film several weeks ago and have been meaning to say a few things about it.  Herewith: 1. This is an exceptionally intellig...

I admit I haven’t paid too much attention to debates over Citizens United, since I regard the direction taken by regulation, control over wh...

What are we talking about when we talk about a bad metaphor for the second derivative of an abstraction? There was a bunch of stuff. Here ...

That would be several stories in both the New York Times and the Washington Post over the last two days: Trump's policy against Iran is ...

In " De-growth vs a Green New Deal ," Robert Pollin relies on the same blurring of distinctions that Robert Solow employed 46 year...

Ruth Sutherland wrote in The Daily Mail a couple of days ago: Here is how Keynes "ignored" those "workaholic tendencies...

These days are the tenth anniversary of the biggest Minsky Moment since the Great Depression.  While when it happened most commentators ment...

I just now got around to reading some May 11 speech by Donald Trump who says he wants to reign in the high price of drugs. A laudable goal ...

In the Sept. 14 Washington Post, Josh Rogin is all shocked and upset about a report that people in the US Treasury Department, apparently su...

I returned a few days ago from a conference in Italy where I spoke with some former economic  advisers of the Five Star Movement (M5S), whic...