Mason ("Mase") Gaffney died on July 26 in Redlands, CA of Covid-19 at age 96.  He was both a great guy as well as arguably what th...

Alex Parker reports on a proposal from Representative Darin LaHood: As part of the next round of pandemic relief, House Republicans are pu...

As of the end of this week I completed chairing the 30th annual international conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and L...

It looks like Donald Trump has finally figured out that his only chance is to actually act to help make the pandemic actually get better, an...

Brad Setser has more to say about how the lack of enforcement with respect to transfer pricing in the Big Pharma sector has not only cost u...

I just posted a discussion of an interesting proposal from Biden written by Alex Parker who mentioned some February 5, 2020 testimony from B...

Alex Parker covers an interesting and important tax policy issue: Former Vice President Joe Biden's recent proposal to secure medical ...

Seems like more people I know are dying.  In this case it is a good friend of mine and occasional coauthor, the Swedish economist, Tonu Puu,...

This is a frontispiece to a 1951 mystery novel by Josephine Tey (real name: Elizabeth Makintosh) named _The Daughter of Time_It is about the...

That would be the quintessentially establishment and boringly conventional Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-b...

There are two general ways to reduce the transmission of the virus.  One is “engineering”, changing the physical environment, the other is “...

When my stomach can take it, which is rarely, I take a look at Marginal Revolution .  Tuning in today, I see Cowen predicting that the intel...

Hoping to buy a nice bottle of French wine? Doug Palmer of Poltico has some bad news for you: The Trump administration announced Friday a ...

Arguably this is paranoia, but the mayor and police chief of my city do not think so and have officially reacted with formal response.  What...

That would be the one at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I have learned that on July 6 one of its current members died,...