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Scott Sumner

How to sell a new idea in macroeconomics

Mar 19 2019

Scott Sumner

Who's afraid of taxing the rich?

Mar 18 2019

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Why does the Fed oppose narrow banking?

Mar 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Are economics textbooks too expensive?

Mar 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Mankiw on teaching economics

Mar 12 2019

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Excessive debt doesn't cause inflation

Mar 9 2019

Scott Sumner

In search of monetary equilibrium

Mar 9 2019

Scott Sumner

Three failures (MMT, statism, Keynesianism) and a (monetarist) success

Mar 6 2019

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America's increasingly incoherent trade policy

Mar 5 2019

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Global factors don't determine US inflation

Mar 3 2019

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More MMT follies (Sympathy for Krugman)

Mar 1 2019

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The wage decoupling mess

Feb 27 2019

Scott Sumner

Keynesianism, NeoFisherism, and MMT

Feb 26 2019

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Alex Tabarrok on the kidney market

Feb 24 2019

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About those "traditional models"

Feb 23 2019

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It's blackmail all the way down

Feb 21 2019

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Another big success for libertarianism

Feb 20 2019

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High-powered money (100 years of stability)

Feb 18 2019

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Lessons from the Golden State

Feb 17 2019

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Against blackmail

Feb 15 2019

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When the shoe was on the other foot (A suggestion for Chinese trade negotiators)

Feb 14 2019

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The European elite is playing a dangerous game

Feb 11 2019

Scott Sumner

What does it mean to speculate that growth is faster than we think?

Feb 10 2019

Scott Sumner

How have US tariffs impacted China?

Feb 7 2019

Scott Sumner

The internal contradictions of liberalism and illiberalism

Feb 5 2019

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The US and China---more alike than you think

Feb 4 2019

Scott Sumner

The gig economy, minimum wages, and unemployment

Feb 2 2019

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Outfoxed and conned, part 2

Jan 31 2019

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If you don't want people to believe you will do X, then don't do X

Jan 30 2019

Scott Sumner

A brief intellectual biography

Jan 28 2019

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MMT is wrong

Jan 25 2019

Scott Sumner

Do free markets create urban sprawl?

Jan 24 2019

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Lincicome on the China shock

Jan 21 2019

Scott Sumner

2% inflation changes everything

Jan 19 2019

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No exit?

Jan 17 2019

Scott Sumner

Second thoughts on lead

Jan 16 2019

Scott Sumner

What determines manufacturing jobs growth?

Jan 13 2019

Scott Sumner

Should governments invest more when rates are low?

Jan 11 2019

Scott Sumner

What sort of top income tax rate does the public favor?

Jan 10 2019

Scott Sumner

There is no such thing as public opinion, example #734

Jan 9 2019

Scott Sumner

Please abolish the Fed's balance sheet

Jan 7 2019

Scott Sumner

The future of money

Jan 6 2019

Scott Sumner

It's getting harder to influence the Fed

Jan 3 2019

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Alternative Money University

Jan 2 2019