The second-quarter GDP numbers came out. The newspapers and Republicans pounced on low growth and anemic job growth. The...
Myths and Facts About the Gold Standard
This is a July 28 2012 Wall Street Journal OpEd with a few of their cuts restored.While many people believe the United...
Krugman, Delong and Inflation
Quite a few commenters and correspondents have asked me what I think of the latest blast, “What Chicago Doesn’t Know” from...
A good Greek story
Matt Jacobs sent along a link to a great story from Greece on Reuters, “Lessons in a shrimp farm’s travails.” The...
Six policies from NPR
“Six policies economists love (and politicians hate)” From NPRs Planet MoneyThe Planet Money team got together a group of...
Powell Post
Jim Powell has a very nice article at Forbes,with his trademark combination of thoughtful comment and detailed facts. I...
Who is for growth?
This weekend, a prominent columnist delivered some brilliant advice to a presidential candidate: …make America the launching...
More weird behavior in high frequency markets
Today’s Coke and IBM markets are jumping every hour on the hour. Does anyone know what the heck is going on? One guess...
Common sense from France
Today’s WSJ has a lovely editorial from Pascal Salin, professor emeritus of economics at the Université Paris-Dauphine....
Forget the mandate
(This is a Bloomberg “business class” oped, July 1. I got frustrated how the health care discussion has gotten stuck in...
The Devaluation Chorus Sings again
The chorus to devalue (and then inflate) the euro as the key to solving Europe’s ills is singing again.Ken Griffin and my...
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