By N1000 Tuesday, 31 May 2016 Commentary Economists Politics and economics Regulation Stimulus Summers on roadblocks to infrastructure The bureaucrats of Massachusetts have done the nation a wonderful service, by parking an abject lesson in America's infrastructure scler...
By N1000 Wednesday, 25 May 2016 Commentary Immigration Politics and economics Bush v. Reagan on Immigration Scott Summner posted this beautiful exchange between Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. on immigration. Direct link (youtube). Scott titl...
By N1000 06:04 Banking Commentary Economists Financial Reform Interviews Politics and economics Regulation Talks Videos Equity financed banking video Video of my talk at the Minneapolis Fed's "Ending Too Big to Fail" symposium. A link to the video (youtube) in case you don...
By N1000 Saturday, 21 May 2016 Academic Articles Commentary Economists Growth Inequality Politics and economics Regulation Ideas had sex Adam Smith. Source: WSJ Why are we so much better off than our ancestors? Why did this process only start where and when it did, in Western ...
By N1000 Friday, 20 May 2016 Commentary Labor Politics and economics Regulation Unemployment Overtime Like most economists, I was a bit baffled by the Administration's announcement of stricter overtime rules. The WSJ , and Jonathan Hartle...
By N1000 Tuesday, 17 May 2016 Academic Articles Banking Commentary Financial Reform Monetary Policy Regulation Equity-financed banking I gave a talk at the Minneapolis Fed's "Ending Too Big to Fail" symposium, May 16. Agenda and video of the event here . My ta...
By N1000 Monday, 16 May 2016 Commentary Cronyism Labor Regulation Week's sad news In the quest to understand just how much the administrative state is harming economic activity, there are lots of anecdotes but few overall...
By N1000 Thursday, 12 May 2016 Academic Articles Commentary Economists Labor Micro vs. macro Unemployment Lost Jobs in Recessions The WSJ has a nice article showing just how hard it has been for many people who lost jobs in the recession to get back to work. Their prof...
By N1000 Tuesday, 10 May 2016 Commentary Inequality Labor McArdle Nugget Megan McArdle has produced a timely nugget of wise prose I would cross income inequality itself off the list of priorities. Far greater con...
By N1000 03:00 Academic Articles Commentary Growth Regulation Regulations and Growth Bentley Coffey, Patrick McLaughlin, and Pietro Peretto have an interesting new paper on The Cumulative Cost of Regulations . They attack two...
By N1000 Monday, 9 May 2016 Academic Articles Banking Commentary Financial Reform Bond Swap The U.S. Treasury debates new-for-old bond swap , reports FT. The Treasury will issue more of the popular 10 year bonds, and then buy them b...
By N1000 07:07 art nepotism Art Sally Fama Cochrane on Painting Allegories of the Body By Milene Fernandez, Epoch Times | May 5, 2016 Sally Fama Cochrane paints at Grand C...
By N1000 Friday, 6 May 2016 Academic Articles Commentary Economists Growth Inflation Macro Monetary Policy Stimulus Global Imbalances I gave some comments on “Global Imbalances and Currency Wars at the ZLB,” by Ricardo J. Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, and Pierre-Olivier Gouri...
By N1000 08:43 Commentary Economists Growth Op-eds Politics and economics Delong and Logarithms Brad Delong posted a response to my oped on growth in the Wall Street Journal. He took issue with my graph, reproduced here, by making h...
By N1000 Wednesday, 4 May 2016 Academic Articles Banking Commentary Economists Financial Reform Interesting Papers Macro Monetary Policy Politics and economics Regulation Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform The Hoover Institution Press just published "Central Bank Governance and Oversight Reform," the collected volume of papers, commen...
By N1000 Tuesday, 3 May 2016 Commentary Cronyism Growth Interviews Micro vs. macro Op-eds Politics and economics Taxes Growth Interview I did a short interview with the WSJ's Mary Kissel about my growth oped. If you can't see the embed above, try this direct link or ...
By N1000 09:27 Commentary Cronyism Growth Micro vs. macro Op-eds Politics and economics Taxes WSJ Growth Oped I did an oped on growth in the Wall Street Journal, titled "Ending America’s Slow-Growth Tailspin." I'll post the full thing ...