I am not somebody who makes endo/beginning of year predictions, and I am not about to stsrt now.  But I have just read a guest post by Jeffr...

When I first started arguing against the degrowthers, I thought they were a small, uninfluential fringe, important only because they had a...

Outgoing Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte is my Congressman.  I even know him, having had civil almost friendly relatio...

Imagine that, instead of the dinosaur of a postal service we have today—the product, among other things, of congressional insistence that no...

Donald Trump lies about everything including military pay : Trump Brags To Troops About A Fictional Giant Pay Raise He Got Them - The pre...

A couple of months ago yours truly complained a bit about some fiscal dishonesty coming from Team Trump: He was basically lying to us hop...

The other night I was sitting at home, locked in a conversation about climate change and race.  How is this a racial issue, I asked?  I real...

Yesterday President Trump announced that he was removing all US troops from Syria over the next 30 days.  Today, "Mad Dog" Jim Mat...

As someone who has looked at the world through a political economic lense for decades, I am restless with the “cultural turn”.  Once upon a ...

Greg Mankiw read Trumponics by Art Laffer and Stephen Moore so we don’t have to: When economists write, they can decide among three possi...

Wow. Sometime ago I here called for Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed bib Salman bin Abdulaziz al Sa'ud, (MbS) to be ...

I have the deepest respect for Robert Shiller, who has been one of the most serious students of the dynamics of speculative bubbles there is...

As most regular readers here know, I have long and old connections to the state of Wisconsin, having gone to high school, undergraduate and ...

At the CEPR blog, Beat the Press,  Dean Baker and Jason Hickel  are debating degrowth. Dean makes the excellent point that "claims abo...

I think this is behind the apparently bipartisan and intense outpouring of mourning over the death of 94 year old George H.W. Bush, indeed w...