So now we are all focused on the recent horrific murder in Minneapolis and now the subsequent events that are happening in many parts of the...

The relation between death and the pandemic economy is a fraught one that has become hotly debated, although with not much clear empirical e...

Just three items. 1) Today (or yesterday late?) AG William Barr appointed yet another Special Counsel to investigate "Obamagate!...

So Mitch McConnell and the senate Republicans want blanket employer liability protection as the price of another round of economic support....

This is an age of rampant conspiratorialism.  Bill Gates is behind the pandemic because he wants to shoot you full of vaccines.  No wait, it...

That would be Nouriel Roubini of NYU who got his moniker back during the Great Recession, which he called pretty well in 2006.  He did this ...

Yet again I am upset that we are getting ads for Trump here.  I have made an inquiry to a knowledgeable person, and I have not been given a ...

We live in a drastically unequal society.  Everywhere you look you will find injustice, constraint and exploitation.  Being a member of a ra...

Oliver Williamson died yesterday at age 87, I do not know of what. He was famous as the main developer of New Institutional Economics, follo...

I took up this invitation from Dan Shaviro: tomorrow morning I'll be participating in a very interesting international tax policy conf...

Here I am using what is the journalistic definition of a "recession," also used in many nations although not officially in the US,...

I know, I should probably not waste everybody's time commenting on this nonsense, but the push on it has been masssive, with it seeming ...

A very interesting paper (not peer-reviewed) by a team of Israeli scholars proposes that a more manageable exit from pandemic lockdown migh...

Donald Trump, cheering on his “warriors” who demand that states lift their lockdown and distancing orders (where they have them), would hav...

Dr. Anthony Fauci has testified before a Senate committee that he is worried that there may be a serious "Second Wave" oof the cur...