February 2016

Sanders multiplier magic

The critiques of Gerald Friedman's analysis of the Sanders economic plan continue. The latest and most detailed and careful so far is ...

I've devoted most of my monetary economics research agenda to the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level in the last two decades ( collection ...

An interview for the Greek Reporter , in English, perhaps cheering the like-minded and sure to infuriate some conventional wisdom. I agree w...

I was listening to NPR this morning over coffee, and nearly spilled it. Host Steve Inskeep was interviewing Mark Surman , Mozilla founder, o...

Neel Kashkari, the new president of the Minneapolis Fed, is making a splash with a speech about too big to fail , and the need for a deeper ...

And just as I was getting all weepy about how great and a-political, obejective, non-partisan and all that the CEA is, along comes an open ...

The Council of Economic Advisers has released a history of the CEA on its' 70th anniversary, as Chapter 7 of the Economic Report of t...

I usually try to steer away from Presidential politics, and especially from commentators' habit of analyzing character. But last week...

The Libertarian Case for Bernie Sanders , from Will Wilkinson at the Niskanen Center. Yes, Denmark scores much above the US on ease of doing...

Allan Meltzer and John Taylor organized a Statement on Policy Rules Legislation signed by quite a few famous economists. John's blog ex...