According to nkecon, on April 30 the price of rice in the DPRK was 4070 won per kg, but as of June 25 it had risen 26 percent to 5147 won pe...

The Times thinks it’s leading the forces of reason and light against Donald Trump, but it doesn’t have a clue.  Every day their front page i...

At 3PM EDT on Friday, I’ll be watching the coverage via Fox of our great women’s soccer team playing the host team in Paris. It is only the ...

I do not know, which is a kind of silly way to start a post, but pretty obviously this is an opening to talk about some other matters, espec...

Today I endured listening to Arthur Laffer lie serially to Ali Velshi today. Skip the first 36 minutes of this Youtube as the interview beg...

Yesterday Facebook released a While Paper (https://libra.org.en-US/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/06/LibraWhitePaper_en_US.pdf ) on their ...

Yesterday I learned that the person who first used the term "duality" in connection with linear programming, indeed with anything ...

Yeah, I know, the Iran situation is more in the headlines, but nobody knows anything and everybody is shooting off their mouths.  I shall co...

I want to follow Dean Baker in dumping on the Robert J. Samuelson Monday, 9/11/19 WaPo column on "The Democrats' fairy-tale campaig...

Yes, I am watching "The Longest Day" on TMC.  Have not seen it for decades, but this 75th anniversary of D-Day seems to be the tim...

Thanks to Greg Mankiw , I’ve seen a preview of the piece by Sam Bowles and Wendy Carlin that will be published in a forthcoming Journal of ...

President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico over immigration has pushed Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell to say that if the tar...

What follows is some unsolicited advice for the Sanders campaign. Politico has an important piece on the downside of the extraordinary ag...

Menzie Chinn has been reading the latest Economic Report of the President and finds a very erroneous and misleading chart, which is figure ...

Douglas Irwin is a very good economist. Let’s highlight his Historical Perspectives on U.S. Trade Policy : The Civil War marked the beginni...