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The Wittgenstein test

Nov 28 2023

Scott Sumner

Harrison Bergeron in the Skies

Nov 26 2023

Scott Sumner

Would Trump Make Inflation Worse?

Nov 24 2023

Scott Sumner

Things That Didn't Cause the Great Depression

Nov 22 2023

Scott Sumner

Dollarization for Argentina?

Nov 20 2023

Scott Sumner

The Open Society and its Enemies

Nov 18 2023

Scott Sumner

Do the Banks Pay FDIC Fees?

Nov 16 2023

Scott Sumner

Libertarianism and Free Will

Nov 14 2023

Scott Sumner

Applying Arnold Kling's Three Languages of Politics

Nov 12 2023

Scott Sumner

Relative Prices in China

Nov 10 2023

Scott Sumner

The Grasshoppers are Coming for your Savings

Nov 8 2023

Scott Sumner

China's Best Province

Nov 6 2023

Scott Sumner

Reporters Don't Write Headlines

Nov 4 2023

Scott Sumner

Old Calabria: The Benefits of Emigration

Nov 2 2023

Scott Sumner

Don't Confuse Supply with Quantity Supplied

Oct 31 2023

Scott Sumner

The death of Li Keqiang

Oct 31 2023

Scott Sumner

Is Currency Forced into Circulation?

Oct 29 2023

Scott Sumner

Commenter Jeff on FAIT

Oct 27 2023

Scott Sumner

Crime and Punishment

Oct 26 2023

Scott Sumner

Demographics are Not Japan's Problem

Oct 23 2023

Scott Sumner

Markets and Zoning

Oct 22 2023

Scott Sumner

Don’t Predict Problems---Prevent Them

Oct 19 2023

Scott Sumner

Competition in the 21st Century

Oct 17 2023

Scott Sumner

Richard Clarida on What Went Wrong

Oct 16 2023

Scott Sumner

Yglesias on Industrial Policy

Oct 12 2023

Scott Sumner

The Elasticity of Supply of Homeless People

Oct 10 2023

Scott Sumner

Regulation Favors the Elites

Oct 8 2023

Scott Sumner

Never Reason from a Quantity Change

Oct 6 2023

Scott Sumner

Taiwan and Montesquieu

Oct 5 2023

Scott Sumner

Some questions for Bloomberg

Oct 3 2023

Scott Sumner

The Zero Sum Death Spiral

Oct 1 2023

Scott Sumner

What's Wrong with Macro?

Sep 29 2023

Scott Sumner

Macroeconomics at 100

Sep 28 2023

Scott Sumner

Out-of-Sample Failures

Sep 26 2023

Scott Sumner

Why so sad?

Sep 24 2023

Scott Sumner

Economics is Really Hard

Sep 22 2023

Scott Sumner

Socializing Risk

Sep 20 2023

Scott Sumner

Can supply and demand explain inflation?

Sep 18 2023

Scott Sumner

Nationalism and Corruption

Sep 16 2023

Scott Sumner

The challenge facing YIMBYs

Sep 14 2023

Scott Sumner

Emergent Tokyo

Sep 12 2023

Scott Sumner

The real problem is nominal (wages)

Sep 10 2023

Scott Sumner

Should we root for poverty?

Sep 8 2023

Scott Sumner

A comment on Jordà, Singh, and Taylor

Sep 6 2023

Scott Sumner

Now they see the problem

Sep 4 2023

Scott Sumner

The confusing China debate

Sep 3 2023

Scott Sumner

Do we incarcerate too many or too few?

Aug 31 2023

Scott Sumner

Non-obvious correlations

Aug 29 2023

Scott Sumner

Avoid trendy economics

Aug 27 2023

Scott Sumner

Everything is correlated

Aug 25 2023

Scott Sumner

Demographic anxiety

Aug 23 2023

Scott Sumner

The government doesn't feel your pain

Aug 21 2023

Scott Sumner

The Laffer curve for incarceration

Aug 20 2023

Scott Sumner

AI control and monetary policy

Aug 17 2023

Scott Sumner

Did Argentina's unemployment rate fall last night?

Aug 15 2023

Scott Sumner

Fertile ground for libertarianism?

Aug 14 2023

Scott Sumner

How do barter economies avoid inflation?

Aug 13 2023

Scott Sumner

99 lead balloons

Aug 11 2023

Scott Sumner

A tale of twin cities

Aug 9 2023

Scott Sumner

Ricardo Reis on the Phillips curve

Aug 7 2023

Scott Sumner

The actual Phillips curve

Aug 4 2023

Scott Sumner

The new left/right axis

Aug 3 2023

Scott Sumner

Rich like Asians, homeless like Latinos

Aug 1 2023

Scott Sumner

What goes around comes around

Jul 30 2023

Scott Sumner

Cochrane on nominal GDP targeting

Jul 28 2023

Scott Sumner

Leftists and trust fund kids

Jul 25 2023

Scott Sumner

Strategic ambiguity?

Jul 24 2023

Scott Sumner

Singa-Dubai

Jul 22 2023

Scott Sumner

The unintended consequences of nationalism

Jul 20 2023

Scott Sumner

Monetary policy and wages

Jul 18 2023

Scott Sumner

Would drug legalization increase overdose fatalities?

Jul 16 2023

Scott Sumner

The Fed doesn't fight inflation

Jul 14 2023

Scott Sumner

Do sanctions work?

Jul 12 2023

Scott Sumner

Density and congestion

Jul 10 2023

Scott Sumner

Is the job market "healthy"?

Jul 9 2023

Scott Sumner

The reactionary impulse

Jul 7 2023

Scott Sumner

Has higher education been fixed?

Jul 5 2023

Scott Sumner

When confused, re-evaluate your model

Jul 4 2023

Scott Sumner

A tale of two suburbs

Jul 2 2023

Scott Sumner

National agoraphobia

Jun 30 2023

Scott Sumner

Weight gain and price gain

Jun 28 2023

Scott Sumner

There is no solid ground in politics

Jun 27 2023

Scott Sumner

Scientists, Pundits, and the Origin of COVID-19

Jun 25 2023

Scott Sumner

Journalistic clichés

Jun 23 2023

Scott Sumner

Was Arthur Burns a bad Fed chair?

Jun 22 2023

Scott Sumner

Housing and Immigration

Jun 19 2023

Scott Sumner

America's Most Bipartisan Issue

Jun 19 2023

Scott Sumner

Dumb Ideas

Jun 16 2023

Scott Sumner

Leave us alone

Jun 14 2023

Scott Sumner

Financial Problems are Endogenous

Jun 13 2023

Scott Sumner

A Rising Tide Lifts Yachts and Rowboats

Jun 11 2023

Scott Sumner

The Wolf is Getting Closer

Jun 9 2023

Scott Sumner

A Target Band for Inflation?

Jun 7 2023

Scott Sumner

Robert Hetzel's History of the Fed

Jun 5 2023

Scott Sumner

Beware of Foolproof Recession Indicators

Jun 3 2023

Scott Sumner

California has Money to Burn

Jun 1 2023

Scott Sumner

The Fed Must Offset Fiscal Policy

May 30 2023

Scott Sumner

Is World War III inevitable?

May 29 2023

Scott Sumner

Friday night football

May 26 2023

Scott Sumner

Furman and Bernanke on NGDP as an indicator

May 25 2023

Scott Sumner

On the uncertainty of our judgement

May 23 2023

Scott Sumner

Cochrane on rational expectations

May 21 2023

Scott Sumner

One area where the US leads the world

May 19 2023

Scott Sumner

A single Fed mandate?

May 17 2023

Scott Sumner

An idealistic economist

May 17 2023

Scott Sumner

Getting Back on Track (A Steph Curry Fed)

May 14 2023

Scott Sumner

Correlation, causation, and big changes

May 12 2023

Scott Sumner

Scott Alexander is still (probably) wrong

May 10 2023

Scott Sumner

Noah Smith's Pessimistic Vision

May 8 2023

Scott Sumner

What current macro puzzle?

May 7 2023

Scott Sumner

Why is demand so strong?

May 5 2023

Scott Sumner

About that 2022 "Recession"

May 3 2023

Scott Sumner

Why Scott Alexander is Wrong

May 1 2023

Scott Sumner

The cost of economic nationalism

Apr 30 2023

Scott Sumner

The virtue of patience

Apr 29 2023

Scott Sumner

Coasean economics in Irvine

Apr 27 2023

Scott Sumner

Rising prices and falling output

Apr 24 2023

Scott Sumner

Leftists and liars

Apr 23 2023

Scott Sumner

Millionaires prefer . . .

Apr 20 2023

Scott Sumner

The Fed as social psychologist

Apr 18 2023

Scott Sumner

The cost of giving in to blackmail

Apr 16 2023

Scott Sumner

Taiwan, the ROC, and Super Bowl XXXII

Apr 13 2023

Scott Sumner

Greenspan on NGDP targeting

Apr 12 2023

Scott Sumner

Profit margins and inflation

Apr 10 2023

Scott Sumner

Alternative Approaches to Monetary Policy

Apr 6 2023

Scott Sumner

FDIC and small banks

Apr 4 2023

Scott Sumner

Am I a "liquidationist"?

Apr 2 2023

Scott Sumner

Josh Hendrickson on the (other) alignment problem

Mar 30 2023

Scott Sumner

The return of industrial policies

Mar 28 2023

Scott Sumner

Do banks create money?

Mar 25 2023

Scott Sumner

A tale of two banks

Mar 23 2023

Scott Sumner

The bigger bailout

Mar 22 2023

Scott Sumner

Did the Fed cause the banking crisis?

Mar 20 2023

Scott Sumner

Lyn Alden on Bank Safety

Mar 18 2023

Scott Sumner

The wrong way to think about moral hazard

Mar 15 2023

Scott Sumner

Time inconsistency in bank regulation

Mar 13 2023

Scott Sumner

Promises, promises

Mar 13 2023

Scott Sumner

"Bank management must be investigated"

Mar 11 2023

Scott Sumner

Silver linings from inflation?

Mar 9 2023

Scott Sumner

Strange rebels

Mar 7 2023

Scott Sumner

QE and low inflation are not alternatives

Mar 5 2023

Scott Sumner

Fine for parking?

Mar 2 2023

Scott Sumner

Uncomfortable truths

Feb 28 2023

Scott Sumner

The southwestern US has plenty of water

Feb 26 2023

Scott Sumner

Poverty is crowded

Feb 24 2023

Scott Sumner

Some thoughts on progress, freedom, and happiness

Feb 22 2023

Scott Sumner

The internal contradictions of progressivism

Feb 20 2023

Scott Sumner

Arms are fungible

Feb 19 2023

Scott Sumner

Do elections have consequences?

Feb 16 2023

Scott Sumner

Correlation and causation

Feb 15 2023

Scott Sumner

Dutch housing shortage (TLDR)

Feb 13 2023

Scott Sumner

Natural resources are overrated

Feb 11 2023

Scott Sumner

Nationalism is a negative sum game

Feb 9 2023

Scott Sumner

Inconvenient views

Feb 7 2023

Scott Sumner

A Chat on supply and demand

Feb 5 2023

Scott Sumner

About that employment-population ratio

Feb 3 2023

Scott Sumner

(Almost) nobody gets macro

Feb 2 2023

Scott Sumner

Fortunately, this isn't the Volcker disinflation

Jan 31 2023

Scott Sumner

What if new housing does not reduce housing prices?

Jan 30 2023

Scott Sumner

Update your priors

Jan 28 2023

Scott Sumner

Time for Some Soul Searching

Jan 26 2023

Scott Sumner

If things are going well

Jan 25 2023

Scott Sumner

Feudalism in America

Jan 23 2023

Scott Sumner

Zoning and "malinvestment"

Jan 22 2023

Scott Sumner

Should we become entangled with our adversaries?

Jan 21 2023

Scott Sumner

On reconsideration, Arthur Burns was still a bad Fed chair

Jan 18 2023

Scott Sumner

How to succeed without really trying

Jan 16 2023

Scott Sumner

My 2021 mistake

Jan 14 2023

Scott Sumner

Good news on inflation

Jan 12 2023

Scott Sumner

The Decline of Growth

Jan 11 2023

Scott Sumner

Nationalism is Bad for Your Health

Jan 9 2023

Scott Sumner

Reputation Bubbles, Crime, and the EMH

Jan 8 2023

Scott Sumner

Is Rapid Job Growth a Good Thing?

Jan 6 2023

Scott Sumner

Garett Jones on Culture and Migration

Jan 4 2023

Scott Sumner

Minor changes with major effects

Jan 2 2023

Scott Sumner

Bennett McCallum, RIP

Jan 2 2023

Scott Sumner

A rose by any other name

Dec 31 2022

Scott Sumner

The boom of 2022 and the failure of contrarianism

Dec 30 2022

Scott Sumner

America knows best

Dec 28 2022

Scott Sumner

Different varieties of inflation

Dec 27 2022

Scott Sumner

Guilty of intent to commit charity?

Dec 25 2022

Scott Sumner

Covid returns to China

Dec 23 2022

Scott Sumner

About that illegal pot

Dec 22 2022

Scott Sumner

Inflation can be brought down quickly

Dec 20 2022

Scott Sumner

In Japan, wages are also the problem

Dec 18 2022

Scott Sumner

Which conspiracy theories should you believe?

Dec 16 2022

Scott Sumner

Call it "wages"

Dec 14 2022

Scott Sumner

Can you raise a family on one income?

Dec 14 2022

Scott Sumner

Main Street and Wall Street

Dec 13 2022

Scott Sumner

Is macroeconomics in its infancy?

Dec 11 2022

Scott Sumner

Stand your ground

Dec 9 2022

Scott Sumner

Unintended consequences of sanctions

Dec 7 2022

Scott Sumner

Content moderation is difficult

Dec 6 2022

Scott Sumner

Quasi-efficient markets

Dec 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Lael Brainard on monetary policy

Dec 1 2022

Scott Sumner

Was Robin Hood a utilitarian?

Nov 29 2022

Scott Sumner

The muddled thinking of protectionists

Nov 28 2022

Scott Sumner

George Selgin on the postwar economy

Nov 26 2022

Scott Sumner

The mystery of politics

Nov 24 2022

Scott Sumner

Canada's new Conservative leader

Nov 22 2022

Scott Sumner

What do you mean by policy lags?

Nov 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Justice for Sherry Chen

Nov 19 2022

Scott Sumner

The Cato Institute on monetary reform

Nov 17 2022

Scott Sumner

Monetary reforms, demand shocks, and modern macroeconomics

Nov 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Ethan Ilzetzki on monetary policy

Nov 14 2022

Scott Sumner

Crypto regulation bleg

Nov 12 2022

Scott Sumner

The "anomalies" keep piling up

Nov 10 2022

Scott Sumner

Bureaucrats impeded by bureaucracy

Nov 9 2022

Scott Sumner

Five perspectives on Fed losses

Nov 7 2022

Scott Sumner

Why so glum (part 2)

Nov 6 2022

Scott Sumner

The doves were wrong

Nov 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Five new Manhattans

Nov 2 2022

Scott Sumner

The libertarian solution

Oct 31 2022

Scott Sumner

Lessons from the Russian gas debacle

Oct 30 2022

Scott Sumner

Persistent inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon

Oct 27 2022

Scott Sumner

The truth about Trump and Truss

Oct 25 2022

Scott Sumner

Galileo would understand

Oct 23 2022

Scott Sumner

The policy lag puzzle

Oct 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Money to burn?

Oct 19 2022

Scott Sumner

Gradualism turned out to be a mistake

Oct 17 2022

Scott Sumner

Who could have foreseen this?

Oct 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Brad DeLong's 20th century

Oct 13 2022

Scott Sumner

Governments do not stabilize markets

Oct 12 2022

Scott Sumner

Are you certain that the Fed has tightened?

Oct 10 2022

Scott Sumner

Tell the truth (lessons from Iran and Iraq)

Oct 8 2022

Scott Sumner

Better call a rules utilitarian

Oct 6 2022

Scott Sumner

Thoughts on the neoliberal wave

Oct 4 2022

Scott Sumner

People who adhere to cultural norms

Oct 2 2022

Scott Sumner

Back in the DDR

Sep 30 2022

Scott Sumner

Time to pay the piper?

Sep 28 2022

Scott Sumner

YIMBY's surprising win in California

Sep 27 2022

Scott Sumner

The (political) equilibrium interest rate

Sep 25 2022

Scott Sumner

Should we read dead economists?

Sep 23 2022

Scott Sumner

The city without zoning

Sep 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Donald Kohn on The Money Illusion

Sep 19 2022

Scott Sumner

The open society and its enemies

Sep 17 2022

Scott Sumner

Minor crimes in Alabama

Sep 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Stabilizing the economy

Sep 12 2022

Scott Sumner

Are Chinese nationalists woke?

Sep 10 2022

Scott Sumner

Solidarity

Sep 8 2022

Scott Sumner

Wokism in the developing world

Sep 6 2022

Scott Sumner

In praise of slackers?

Sep 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Recessions and corrections

Sep 2 2022

Scott Sumner

Adam Smith was right

Aug 31 2022

Scott Sumner

Neel Kashkari's schandenfreude

Aug 29 2022

Scott Sumner

Prospects for a soft landing?

Aug 28 2022

Scott Sumner

Consumption taxes

Aug 26 2022

Scott Sumner

Our hidden taxes on thrift

Aug 24 2022

Scott Sumner

What would it mean to abolish the Bank of Canada?

Aug 23 2022

Scott Sumner

How much choice do you want?

Aug 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Monetary conflation

Aug 19 2022

Scott Sumner

A tiger by the tail

Aug 17 2022

Scott Sumner

Switzerland's secret sauce

Aug 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Libertarian monetary policy bleg

Aug 14 2022

Scott Sumner

The paradox of "restrictive financial conditions"

Aug 12 2022

Scott Sumner

Hollywood and reality

Aug 11 2022

Scott Sumner

What do you see?

Aug 9 2022

Scott Sumner

IMMENSELY confusing

Aug 8 2022

Scott Sumner

Barro's dubious recession call

Aug 5 2022

Scott Sumner

Public opinion is a slippery concept

Aug 3 2022

Scott Sumner

History lessons

Aug 2 2022

Scott Sumner

Raise taxes on investment?

Jul 30 2022

Scott Sumner

Nudged into the oncoming lane

Jul 29 2022

Scott Sumner

A good press conference

Jul 28 2022

Scott Sumner

What is monetary policy?

Jul 26 2022

Scott Sumner

Is high unemployment inevitable?

Jul 25 2022

Scott Sumner

When policies are not credible

Jul 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Thanks for nothing!

Jul 19 2022

Scott Sumner

How do you know if AD is too high?

Jul 18 2022

Scott Sumner

The surveillance state

Jul 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Stagflation and boomflation

Jul 13 2022

Scott Sumner

Why do macroeconomists keep changing their model?

Jul 11 2022

Scott Sumner

Popularism and freedom

Jul 8 2022

Scott Sumner

Why macro forecasting is difficult

Jul 7 2022

Scott Sumner

It's about time

Jul 6 2022

Scott Sumner

Ideas don't stay discredited forever

Jul 4 2022

Scott Sumner

The "two negative quarters" myth

Jul 3 2022

Scott Sumner

The risk of recession

Jul 1 2022

Scott Sumner

NIMBY, YIMBY or MIMBY?

Jun 29 2022

Scott Sumner

What do you actually believe?

Jun 28 2022

Scott Sumner

Blue votes, red policy

Jun 27 2022

Scott Sumner

Krugman on the effects of a hot economy

Jun 26 2022

Scott Sumner

To succeed, one must recognize success

Jun 24 2022

Scott Sumner

Killing 4 birds with one stone

Jun 22 2022

Scott Sumner

Global warming: Are both sides wrong?

Jun 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Is there a case for higher inflation?

Jun 20 2022

Scott Sumner

Why so glum?

Jun 17 2022

Scott Sumner

What happened to good news?

Jun 16 2022

Scott Sumner

The woke are feeding on themselves

Jun 14 2022

Scott Sumner

The Fed knew

Jun 13 2022

Scott Sumner

6% of Americans are woke extremists

Jun 13 2022

Scott Sumner

Nationalism and the global economy

Jun 11 2022

Scott Sumner

Supply is more elastic than you think

Jun 10 2022

Scott Sumner

Why so many Covid deaths?

Jun 9 2022

Scott Sumner

Is Europe also overheating?

Jun 7 2022

Scott Sumner

Firemen and arsonists

Jun 5 2022

Scott Sumner

The other F-word

Jun 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Is fiscal policy fairer?

Jun 1 2022

Scott Sumner

What "obvious" reason?

May 28 2022

Scott Sumner

Who are the homeless?

May 26 2022

Scott Sumner

Is pilot error a possibility?

May 25 2022

Scott Sumner

California housing prices and homelessness

May 23 2022

Scott Sumner

Is money getting tighter?

May 22 2022

Scott Sumner

Theory and empirical evidence

May 20 2022

Scott Sumner

Is California a good place to live?

May 19 2022

Scott Sumner

Think big, but don't buy Greenland

May 16 2022

Scott Sumner

The problem with fiscal policy

May 14 2022

Scott Sumner

Inflation is worse than it looks

May 12 2022

Scott Sumner

First they came for the communists . . .

May 11 2022

Scott Sumner

America's most libertarian governor?

May 9 2022

Scott Sumner

Ending transitory inflation is easy

May 7 2022

Scott Sumner

Steer the bus AND straighten the road

May 6 2022

Scott Sumner

Mercatus Center Friedman symposium

May 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Avoid snap judgments

May 1 2022

Scott Sumner

The man who was correct

Apr 28 2022

Scott Sumner

The power to subsidize is the power to destroy

Apr 26 2022

Scott Sumner

The Fed 3.0

Apr 26 2022

Scott Sumner

Jason Furman was wrong

Apr 24 2022

Scott Sumner

Jason Furman is right

Apr 23 2022

Scott Sumner

Then and now

Apr 22 2022

Scott Sumner

NIRA redux

Apr 20 2022

Scott Sumner

The dog that didn't bark

Apr 18 2022

Scott Sumner

It's the stupidity, stupid

Apr 16 2022

Scott Sumner

Removing ego from monetary policy

Apr 14 2022

Scott Sumner

Should we have free trade in a dangerous world?

Apr 12 2022

Scott Sumner

Don't conflate nationalism with patriotism

Apr 10 2022

Scott Sumner

Nominal GDP as a policy guide

Apr 9 2022

Scott Sumner

Whom can you trust?

Apr 8 2022

Scott Sumner

Is there a carbon tax in our future?

Apr 5 2022

Scott Sumner

All that glitters . . .

Apr 3 2022

Scott Sumner

Back to gold?

Mar 31 2022

Scott Sumner

What caused the high inflation?

Mar 29 2022

Scott Sumner

Trust, but verify

Mar 27 2022

Scott Sumner

Like sending a check to Putin

Mar 25 2022

Scott Sumner

Yes, we can "whip inflation now"

Mar 23 2022

Scott Sumner

Why the Fed should hit its target

Mar 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Industrial policy and wish lists

Mar 20 2022

Scott Sumner

Should bank examiners do monetary policy?

Mar 18 2022

Scott Sumner

The Fed abandons average inflation targeting

Mar 16 2022

Scott Sumner

Artificially low rates? Yes, finally.

Mar 15 2022

Scott Sumner

No sanctions without globalization

Mar 14 2022

Scott Sumner

How confident should you be?

Mar 11 2022

Scott Sumner

Don't blame the hippies

Mar 9 2022

Scott Sumner

What Dutch disease?

Mar 7 2022

Scott Sumner

Foreign policy is hard

Mar 5 2022

Scott Sumner

Do you remember 1973?

Mar 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Heading down north, part 2

Mar 2 2022

Scott Sumner

Confusion about "overheating"

Feb 28 2022

Scott Sumner

There is no such thing as Russian public opinion

Feb 25 2022

Scott Sumner

A SWIFT and sure way to punish Russia

Feb 24 2022

Scott Sumner

The rise and fall and rise of nationalism

Feb 24 2022

Scott Sumner

Do we need labels to think?

Feb 23 2022

Scott Sumner

Is FAIT a mystery cult?

Feb 21 2022

Scott Sumner

Is money (nominally) neutral?

Feb 18 2022

Scott Sumner

The pessimists were correct about Covid

Feb 17 2022

Scott Sumner

Heading down north

Feb 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Where the Fed went wrong

Feb 13 2022

Scott Sumner

The inflation outlook is getting worse

Feb 12 2022

Scott Sumner

Straight Outta Compton

Feb 10 2022

Scott Sumner

Should the Fed be led by experts?

Feb 8 2022

Scott Sumner

NGDP targeting and libertarianism

Feb 6 2022

Scott Sumner

The Fed and climate change

Feb 4 2022

Scott Sumner

Selgin is right, but it's an endless battle

Feb 1 2022

Scott Sumner

The "old inflation playbook" still applies

Jan 29 2022

Scott Sumner

Is the US government causing the chip shortage?

Jan 27 2022

Scott Sumner

Is the Fed committed to average inflation targeting?

Jan 26 2022

Scott Sumner

Bryan Caplan on prices and shortages

Jan 25 2022

Scott Sumner

No, "the market" isn't worried about "the Fed"

Jan 24 2022

Scott Sumner

Kevin Erdmann was right

Jan 23 2022

Scott Sumner

A rose by any other name

Jan 22 2022

Scott Sumner

Was MMT influential?

Jan 20 2022

Scott Sumner

Protectionism doesn't protect jobs (in aggregate)

Jan 19 2022

Scott Sumner

Flight 447, Britney Spears, and Audi cars

Jan 17 2022

Scott Sumner

Two types of environmentalism

Jan 15 2022

Scott Sumner

Borderline cases

Jan 13 2022

Scott Sumner

The dream of a united Europe

Jan 11 2022

Scott Sumner

Why I'm a contrarian on fiscal policy

Jan 9 2022

Scott Sumner

Stop talking about "getting back to 2%"

Jan 7 2022

Scott Sumner

The actual case for wage/price controls

Jan 5 2022

Scott Sumner

The poison of nationalism

Jan 3 2022

Scott Sumner

Where are we making progress?

Jan 1 2022

Scott Sumner

Exactly who is targeting inflation at 2%?

Dec 28 2021

Scott Sumner

Three kinds of people

Dec 27 2021

Scott Sumner

What makes an issue political?

Dec 26 2021

Scott Sumner

Decentralized Tokyo

Dec 23 2021

Scott Sumner

Does immigration reduce wages?

Dec 21 2021

Scott Sumner

The dog that didn't bark

Dec 20 2021

Scott Sumner

Anne Case and Angus Deaton on health care and wage stagnation

Dec 19 2021

Scott Sumner

Contra Caplan on Covid caution

Dec 17 2021

Scott Sumner

Who is hurt most by inflation?

Dec 15 2021

Scott Sumner

Market efficiency in sports

Dec 13 2021

Scott Sumner

Yglesias on monetary policy

Dec 11 2021

Scott Sumner

It didn't begin with Covid

Dec 10 2021

Scott Sumner

Yes, monetary policy did cause the Great Depression

Dec 8 2021

Scott Sumner

Taking Tegucigalpa seriously

Dec 7 2021

Scott Sumner

Kowtowing to the CCP

Dec 5 2021

Scott Sumner

The politics of "right to die"

Dec 4 2021

Scott Sumner

A boringly conventional contrarian

Dec 1 2021

Scott Sumner

Nominal GDP >>> Aggregate Demand

Nov 29 2021

Scott Sumner

Are carbon taxes unpopular?

Nov 28 2021

Scott Sumner

Japan's "curious" lack of inflation

Nov 26 2021

Scott Sumner

What is a "low interest rate policy"?

Nov 24 2021

Scott Sumner

2021 >>>>>>>> 2009

Nov 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Iraqi WMD redux

Nov 19 2021

Scott Sumner

There is no magic wand

Nov 17 2021

Scott Sumner

What caused the inflation?

Nov 15 2021

Scott Sumner

When it's time to panic

Nov 14 2021

Scott Sumner

Freedom and tradition

Nov 12 2021

Scott Sumner

Why is inflation bad?

Nov 10 2021

Scott Sumner

Democracy and government spending

Nov 8 2021

Scott Sumner

There is no "wait and see" for Fed policy

Nov 6 2021

Scott Sumner

Baby knows best

Nov 4 2021

Scott Sumner

Inflation: Is it supply or demand?

Nov 2 2021

Scott Sumner

Monetary policy and central planning

Nov 1 2021

Scott Sumner

What should have happened in 2008-09

Oct 30 2021

Scott Sumner

The nominal recovery is now complete

Oct 28 2021

Scott Sumner

What kind of immigrants does the GOP want?

Oct 26 2021

Scott Sumner

How nationalism blinds us

Oct 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Yes, political polarization has gotten much worse

Oct 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Businesses cooperate, politicians compete

Oct 20 2021

Scott Sumner

Does Lloyd Austin understand the purpose of NATO?

Oct 18 2021

Scott Sumner

Will Texas choose to be pro-business or pro-market?

Oct 16 2021

Scott Sumner

An unsung success story

Oct 15 2021

Scott Sumner

Capitalism has a disparate impact

Oct 13 2021

Scott Sumner

Why "tax the rich" isn't working

Oct 11 2021

Scott Sumner

Further thoughts on Washington State

Oct 10 2021

Scott Sumner

When forecasts don't pan out

Oct 9 2021

Scott Sumner

Why weren't we polarized in the past?

Oct 7 2021

Scott Sumner

Some thoughts on modernism

Oct 5 2021

Scott Sumner

Exceptional Washington

Oct 3 2021

Scott Sumner

A dubious record

Oct 1 2021

Scott Sumner

Money neutrality, super-neutrality, and non-neutrality

Sep 29 2021

Scott Sumner

Endogenous and exogenous steering

Sep 27 2021

Scott Sumner

What does "local control" actually mean?

Sep 25 2021

Scott Sumner

Is California still a trendsetter?

Sep 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Doug Irwin on the Korean miracle

Sep 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Inflation and relative prices

Sep 20 2021

Scott Sumner

It's not what you don't know; it's what you know that ain't so

Sep 18 2021

Scott Sumner

Average is over

Sep 17 2021

Scott Sumner

Myths we teach our children

Sep 15 2021

Scott Sumner

The dreary 21st century

Sep 13 2021

Scott Sumner

Patriotism and nationalism

Sep 11 2021

Scott Sumner

Is market monetarism actually "monetarist"

Sep 10 2021

Scott Sumner

If you want liberty, aim for success (and vice versa)

Sep 8 2021

Scott Sumner

Conservatism in the 21st century

Sep 6 2021

Scott Sumner

Well, that didn't take long!

Sep 3 2021

Scott Sumner

It's never too late

Sep 2 2021

Scott Sumner

Beware of conspiracy theories

Sep 1 2021

Scott Sumner

Benjamin Schoefer on the Musical Chairs Model

Aug 30 2021

Scott Sumner

Against employment targets

Aug 29 2021

Scott Sumner

The Third Amendment

Aug 28 2021

Scott Sumner

Unemployment insurance reduces employment

Aug 25 2021

Scott Sumner

MMT and Japan

Aug 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Ryan Avent on policy counterfactuals

Aug 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Commercial censorship?

Aug 20 2021

Scott Sumner

Does identity change?

Aug 18 2021

Scott Sumner

Whither sovereignty?

Aug 17 2021

Scott Sumner

Eh, what's happening?

Aug 14 2021

Scott Sumner

Don't mess with Texans (The Afghanistan war was a smashing success)

Aug 12 2021

Scott Sumner

The authoritarian nationalist playbook

Aug 8 2021

Scott Sumner

What emergency?

Aug 6 2021

Scott Sumner

Scott Alexander on the FDA

Aug 5 2021

Scott Sumner

Who wants efficient passenger rail?

Aug 3 2021

Scott Sumner

Void if vague

Jul 31 2021

Scott Sumner

Pollsters are people too

Jul 30 2021

Scott Sumner

Should policymakers maximize aggregate utility?

Jul 28 2021

Scott Sumner

Trust, but verify

Jul 26 2021

Scott Sumner

Yglesias on military spending

Jul 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Is restaurant productivity booming? (Probably not)

Jul 22 2021

Scott Sumner

I believe the TRUE science!

Jul 20 2021

Scott Sumner

Should we rely on the FDA for advice?

Jul 19 2021

Scott Sumner

Big fruit and low-hanging fruit

Jul 16 2021

Scott Sumner

Is inflation always a monetary phenomenon?

Jul 14 2021

Scott Sumner

Two types of debt monetization (and one misconception)

Jul 13 2021

Scott Sumner

What can we infer from the Swedish Covid policy?

Jul 12 2021

Scott Sumner

Meaning and connotation

Jul 10 2021

Scott Sumner

Two types of utilitarianism

Jul 9 2021

Scott Sumner

Why don't firms pay more?

Jul 7 2021

Scott Sumner

First impressions

Jul 4 2021

Scott Sumner

The stories we tell

Jul 2 2021

Scott Sumner

The "good old days" that never were

Jul 1 2021

Scott Sumner

Teaching the Fed as the hero

Jun 29 2021

Scott Sumner

Strange moral calculations

Jun 26 2021

Scott Sumner

TV prices and British queens

Jun 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Temporary insanity (learning from mistakes)

Jun 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Inflation is a nominal phenomenon

Jun 19 2021

Scott Sumner

Friedman's smashing success

Jun 17 2021

Scott Sumner

The pointless debate over inflation

Jun 15 2021

Scott Sumner

In praise of "death panels"

Jun 12 2021

Scott Sumner

Is a ban on corporate ransom payments feasible?

Jun 10 2021

Scott Sumner

When should NGDP be unstable?

Jun 9 2021

Scott Sumner

Friedman as a critic of Keynesian economics

Jun 8 2021

Scott Sumner

The labor supply shock

Jun 5 2021

Scott Sumner

Regulation can be painful

Jun 2 2021

Scott Sumner

How do deficits matter?

May 31 2021

Scott Sumner

A new model of the macroeconomy

May 29 2021

Scott Sumner

That 1970s inflation

May 27 2021

Scott Sumner

I'm still waiting

May 25 2021

Scott Sumner

It's alright, Ma, change your lane

May 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Is digital currency a threat to banking?

May 20 2021

Scott Sumner

Did a lab leak cause a global pandemic?

May 18 2021

Scott Sumner

What about bribery?

May 16 2021

Scott Sumner

Ransom bleg

May 14 2021

Scott Sumner

The problem with interest rate targeting

May 12 2021

Scott Sumner

The real story

May 9 2021

Scott Sumner

A crazy idea: Tell the truth

May 8 2021

Scott Sumner

Fiscal policy and interest rates

May 5 2021

Scott Sumner

The Fed is not a passive observer

May 3 2021

Scott Sumner

Capital gains nonsense, part 2

Apr 30 2021

Scott Sumner

Double taxation of coconuts

Apr 29 2021

Scott Sumner

Lower property values? That's the point.

Apr 28 2021

Scott Sumner

Capital gains nonsense

Apr 26 2021

Scott Sumner

Zoning, race, and ideology

Apr 24 2021

Scott Sumner

What the wage data is telling us

Apr 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Teenage employment has bounced back

Apr 20 2021

Scott Sumner

You get what you pay for

Apr 19 2021

Scott Sumner

The summer of 2021

Apr 17 2021

Scott Sumner

What causes recessions?

Apr 16 2021

Scott Sumner

Covid: The next issue

Apr 14 2021

Scott Sumner

The problem with environmental impact statements

Apr 12 2021

Scott Sumner

Who are the experts?

Apr 11 2021

Scott Sumner

Why are economists losing prestige?

Apr 10 2021

Scott Sumner

Which ideas are winning?

Apr 8 2021

Scott Sumner

The future belongs to the Squamish

Apr 6 2021

Scott Sumner

Robert Mundell, RIP

Apr 5 2021

Scott Sumner

No, the unemployment rate is not "meaningless"

Apr 2 2021

Scott Sumner

How many people should we produce?

Mar 31 2021

Scott Sumner

The cultural impact of rent control

Mar 29 2021

Scott Sumner

Cancel culture? Internet culture? Human culture?

Mar 27 2021

Scott Sumner

When to blame?

Mar 25 2021

Scott Sumner

Proactive and reactive COVID policies

Mar 23 2021

Scott Sumner

The professor vs. the markets

Mar 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Will the Fed follow its rhetoric or its rule?

Mar 21 2021

Scott Sumner

Did people eat two dinners in the 1970s?

Mar 18 2021

Scott Sumner

How much should we borrow?

Mar 17 2021

Scott Sumner

Internal contradictions in progressivism

Mar 16 2021

Scott Sumner

Suggestions for the Reserve Bank of New Zealand?

Mar 14 2021

Scott Sumner

Who gains under non-price rationing?

Mar 12 2021

Scott Sumner

The old left and cancel culture

Mar 10 2021

Scott Sumner

Why is the UK doing so much better?

Mar 7 2021

Scott Sumner

Information, behavior, and frictions (short course on economics)

Mar 5 2021

Scott Sumner

Can economists be trusted?

Mar 4 2021

Scott Sumner

The COVID confidence man

Mar 2 2021

Scott Sumner

About those "bond vigilantes"

Mar 1 2021

Scott Sumner

The two China policies

Feb 27 2021

Scott Sumner

One hundred years of solitude

Feb 24 2021

Scott Sumner

The Mae West of energy sources

Feb 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Correlation and causation

Feb 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Dean Baker on wealth

Feb 21 2021

Scott Sumner

Promise to be irresponsible?

Feb 18 2021

Scott Sumner

When is fiscal stimulus appropriate?

Feb 16 2021

Scott Sumner

The seen and the unseen

Feb 14 2021

Scott Sumner

Free trade and free labor markets

Feb 12 2021

Scott Sumner

Hume, hockey sticks, and The Great Forgetting

Feb 11 2021

Scott Sumner

What is this "monetary policy" that you refer to?

Feb 9 2021

Scott Sumner

Romney's child allowance proposal

Feb 7 2021

Scott Sumner

Olivier Blanchard on monetary offset

Feb 6 2021

Scott Sumner

If it ain't broke . . .

Feb 5 2021

Scott Sumner

The Covid election

Feb 4 2021

Scott Sumner

Censorship is a two-edged sword

Feb 3 2021

Scott Sumner

My new article on MMT

Feb 1 2021

Scott Sumner

Panda: Pandering to the public's ignorance

Jan 31 2021

Scott Sumner

The equity and efficiency of SALT cap repeal

Jan 29 2021

Scott Sumner

Nationalism, prejudice, and FDA regulation

Jan 28 2021

Scott Sumner

Selective outrage

Jan 27 2021

Scott Sumner

Markets are good at allocating resources

Jan 26 2021

Scott Sumner

Welfare states and the new (center) left

Jan 24 2021

Scott Sumner

Interest rates and housing affordability

Jan 22 2021

Scott Sumner

Monetary Policy: AIT seems on target

Jan 20 2021

Scott Sumner

Supply and aggregate supply are unrelated concepts

Jan 19 2021

Scott Sumner

Regulation and Vaccines: It's much worse than you think

Jan 17 2021

Scott Sumner

The "mad scientist" problem

Jan 15 2021

Scott Sumner

China won the trade war

Jan 12 2021

Scott Sumner

Daniel Kaufmann on Swiss monetary policy

Jan 11 2021

Scott Sumner

There's no one behind the curtain

Jan 9 2021

Scott Sumner

Biden approves First Dose First!

Jan 8 2021

Scott Sumner

Why are stocks up today?

Jan 7 2021

Scott Sumner

There are no non-Bayesians in a COVID foxhole

Jan 5 2021

Scott Sumner

Sadie Alexander: The First African-American Economist

Jan 4 2021

Scott Sumner

The costs of not maximizing aggregate utility

Jan 2 2021

Scott Sumner

Gold hoarding during the Great Depression

Jan 1 2021

Scott Sumner

Nice vaccine; pity there's no distribution mechanism

Dec 29 2020

Scott Sumner

Connect the dots

Dec 25 2020

Scott Sumner

The world is full of inflation

Dec 23 2020

Scott Sumner

Praise and Blame: Meritocracy and Utilitarianism

Dec 22 2020

Scott Sumner

It's not just housing

Dec 20 2020

Scott Sumner

Understanding MMT

Dec 19 2020

Scott Sumner

Whip ambiguity now!

Dec 18 2020

Scott Sumner

The Swiss cost of living is too low

Dec 16 2020

Scott Sumner

No free lunch for government debt

Dec 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Death panels, euthanasia, and the conservative embrace of herd immunity

Dec 12 2020

Scott Sumner

That doesn't mean what you think it means

Dec 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Simplifying the teaching of money

Dec 10 2020

Scott Sumner

Krugman on the effect of increased money growth

Dec 9 2020

Scott Sumner

When regulators engage in "white lies"

Dec 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Relief, not stimulus

Dec 3 2020

Scott Sumner

Does Oklahoma have America's most pot-friendly regime?

Dec 2 2020

Scott Sumner

Three MMT fallacies

Nov 29 2020

Scott Sumner

A meta-theory of money/macro

Nov 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Confusing claims regarding Mnuchin's recent Cares Act decision

Nov 27 2020

Scott Sumner

Further thoughts on MMT and net saving

Nov 25 2020

Scott Sumner

The importance of expectations

Nov 24 2020

Scott Sumner

MMT bleg

Nov 23 2020

Scott Sumner

The relationship between identity and politics is complicated

Nov 21 2020

Scott Sumner

Postmodernism is not an inherently left wing ideology

Nov 20 2020

Scott Sumner

College grads and highly specialized societies

Nov 18 2020

Scott Sumner

Conspiracy theories can cost lives

Nov 17 2020

Scott Sumner

Non-linearities in Covid outcomes

Nov 14 2020

Scott Sumner

Is Rand Paul actually wrong?

Nov 13 2020

Scott Sumner

There's nothing "WEIRD" about conspiracy theories

Nov 12 2020

Scott Sumner

The difficult politics of Covid

Nov 11 2020

Scott Sumner

The thing party vs. the idea party

Nov 10 2020

Scott Sumner

About those Muslim immigrants to Germany

Nov 9 2020

Scott Sumner

Morning in America?

Nov 6 2020

Scott Sumner

Some thoughts on polling

Nov 4 2020

Scott Sumner

A good night for libertarians

Nov 4 2020

Scott Sumner

How should we teach monetary policy?

Nov 2 2020

Scott Sumner

The price of medical ethics (and fiscal stimulus)

Oct 30 2020

Scott Sumner

Arnold Kling on Modigliani-Miller and money

Oct 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Parties become popular by taking unpopular stands

Oct 28 2020

Scott Sumner

(Un)Orthodox economics

Oct 26 2020

Scott Sumner

Look at money!

Oct 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Two important and widely held views have been discredited

Oct 23 2020

Scott Sumner

Is progressivism a scam?

Oct 22 2020

Scott Sumner

If you are not taxing consumption . . .

Oct 20 2020

Scott Sumner

Are rational people weird?

Oct 19 2020

Scott Sumner

All ideologies eventually (seem to) fail

Oct 18 2020

Scott Sumner

Vermont is a safe space

Oct 17 2020

Scott Sumner

When in doubt, don't imprison

Oct 16 2020

Scott Sumner

Do politicians listen to economists?

Oct 13 2020

Scott Sumner

Just how expansionary has the Fed actually been?

Oct 11 2020

Scott Sumner

How soon we forget

Oct 10 2020

Scott Sumner

Trade deficit whack-a-mole

Oct 8 2020

Scott Sumner

Tim Duy on fiscal stimulus

Oct 6 2020

Scott Sumner

Identifying monetary shocks

Oct 6 2020

Scott Sumner

Special treatment for the powerful?

Oct 3 2020

Scott Sumner

This isn't a Keynesian business cycle

Oct 2 2020

Scott Sumner

The masquerading problem

Sep 30 2020

Scott Sumner

Stephen Williamson on NGDP level targeting

Sep 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Congress >>> economics profession

Sep 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Taiwan's surprising boom

Sep 24 2020

Scott Sumner

The problem with court packing

Sep 22 2020

Scott Sumner

The lessons of Abenomics

Sep 21 2020

Scott Sumner

What do models tell us?

Sep 18 2020

Scott Sumner

The Fed can create money

Sep 16 2020

Scott Sumner

Friends in high places

Sep 15 2020

Scott Sumner

The headline should match the article

Sep 13 2020

Scott Sumner

Misinformation and foreign policy

Sep 11 2020

Scott Sumner

All Hail Lars Christensen!

Sep 9 2020

Scott Sumner

Fiscal stimulus also boosts inflation

Sep 7 2020

Scott Sumner

Japan's new leader

Sep 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

Sep 4 2020

Scott Sumner

Sweden and Taiwan revisited

Sep 2 2020

Scott Sumner

More men on the moon?

Sep 1 2020

Scott Sumner

COVID-19 in the Western Hemisphere

Aug 30 2020

Scott Sumner

How will we know if average inflation targeting is working?

Aug 28 2020

Scott Sumner

A win for monetarism?

Aug 27 2020

Scott Sumner

Philippe Lemoine on Covid-19 conspiracy theories

Aug 25 2020

Scott Sumner

What does the UK want from Brexit?

Aug 23 2020

Scott Sumner

Are the old opposed to progress?

Aug 21 2020

Scott Sumner

Herd immunity is not a number (part 2)

Aug 20 2020

Scott Sumner

What if the economy does not tank in August?

Aug 18 2020

Scott Sumner

No lion tamers at the Fed

Aug 17 2020

Scott Sumner

The new McCarthyism

Aug 16 2020

Scott Sumner

Further thoughts on consumption and GDP

Aug 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Consumption is not a part of GDP

Aug 14 2020

Scott Sumner

The wheel of ideology revisited

Aug 13 2020

Scott Sumner

Capitalists of the world unite!

Aug 12 2020

Scott Sumner

Conservatives and the mythical third way

Aug 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Sweden prediction

Aug 9 2020

Scott Sumner

I've changed my mind on the Fed's mandate

Aug 8 2020

Scott Sumner

The emerging war on thrift

Aug 6 2020

Scott Sumner

A Sword of Damocles for TikTok?

Aug 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Rethinking the Great Recession

Aug 4 2020

Scott Sumner

How strong is the paternalist argument for drug regulations?

Aug 3 2020

Scott Sumner

Is utilitarianism WEIRD?

Aug 2 2020

Scott Sumner

Wasted ammunition?

Jul 30 2020

Scott Sumner

Should we root for second best policies?

Jul 29 2020

Scott Sumner

The business cycle drives investment

Jul 27 2020

Scott Sumner

'Profit' is a meaningless term

Jul 24 2020

Scott Sumner

Is stimulus costly?

Jul 22 2020

Scott Sumner

Free to build

Jul 20 2020

Scott Sumner

This is how it's supposed to work

Jul 18 2020

Scott Sumner

Herd immunity is not a number (it's a function)

Jul 16 2020

Scott Sumner

What we know about COVID-19

Jul 14 2020

Scott Sumner

Could it have been much worse?

Jul 12 2020

Scott Sumner

Progressivism goes off the rails

Jul 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Monetary economics: The three heresies

Jul 8 2020

Scott Sumner

2020 hindsight

Jul 6 2020

Scott Sumner

How is the US doing?

Jul 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Two countries, going in opposite directions

Jul 4 2020

Scott Sumner

The totalitarian temptation

Jul 3 2020

Scott Sumner

Reforming unemployment insurance

Jun 30 2020

Scott Sumner

The Supreme Court is a follower, not a leader

Jun 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Living on a one dimensional planet

Jun 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Shooting ourselves in the foot

Jun 23 2020

Scott Sumner

Winter in Australia

Jun 21 2020

Scott Sumner

Keep government out of the media

Jun 18 2020

Scott Sumner

The Fed is unlikely to monetize the debt

Jun 17 2020

Scott Sumner

Should we trust elite opinion?

Jun 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Stop asking the Fed about inequality (and start asking about inflation)

Jun 13 2020

Scott Sumner

Fewer laws, less police brutality

Jun 12 2020

Scott Sumner

African-American lives matter

Jun 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Nationalism and tech

Jun 8 2020

Scott Sumner

What does it mean to say a debt is "unsustainable"?

Jun 6 2020

Scott Sumner

Lockdowns are partly endogenous

Jun 4 2020

Scott Sumner

Herd immunity was never a feasible option

Jun 2 2020

Scott Sumner

A libertarian is a conservative who has been oppressed

Jun 1 2020

Scott Sumner

Highway 61 revisited

May 31 2020

Scott Sumner

Kudos to the UK

May 30 2020

Scott Sumner

Will we have a depression?

May 29 2020

Scott Sumner

Matt Yglesias on Hong Kong

May 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Libertarianism, not libertarians

May 27 2020

Scott Sumner

When the personal becomes political

May 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Richard Timberlake on the gold standard

May 24 2020

Scott Sumner

How should we evaluate policy?

May 23 2020

Scott Sumner

A liberal world trading system: Who says no?

May 20 2020

Scott Sumner

Wrong headline

May 19 2020

Scott Sumner

Authoritarianism and lockdowns

May 18 2020

Scott Sumner

The pandemic and UBI

May 17 2020

Scott Sumner

Negative interest rates and negative IOER

May 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Is health care discretionary?

May 13 2020

Scott Sumner

"Everyone has their reasons"

May 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Big government is not the solution; it's the problem

May 10 2020

Scott Sumner

The wrong debate

May 8 2020

Scott Sumner

There is no magic bullet

May 8 2020

Scott Sumner

Consumption shocks and debt

May 7 2020

Scott Sumner

Remember "Remember the Maine"?

May 6 2020

Scott Sumner

America has very high standards

May 5 2020

Scott Sumner

The main (economic) problem is social distancing, not lockdowns

May 4 2020

Scott Sumner

Trump's effusive praise of China's coronavirus response

May 3 2020

Scott Sumner

The good, the bad, and the ugly

May 2 2020

Scott Sumner

The Fed is trying to solve the wrong problem

Apr 30 2020

Scott Sumner

"national security reasons"

Apr 29 2020

Scott Sumner

Shouldn't the public decide?

Apr 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Further thoughts on the pandemic

Apr 27 2020

Scott Sumner

Update on flights from China

Apr 23 2020

Scott Sumner

The Financial Times on the internal contradictions of nationalism

Apr 23 2020

Scott Sumner

Why the travel ban did not work

Apr 21 2020

Scott Sumner

Central banks can "magically" prevent disinflation

Apr 20 2020

Scott Sumner

Typhoon

Apr 17 2020

Scott Sumner

Distorted perceptions of risk

Apr 16 2020

Scott Sumner

Sweden is not the model (Taiwan is)

Apr 15 2020

Scott Sumner

The importance of federalism

Apr 14 2020

Scott Sumner

Why did the markets miss it?

Apr 13 2020

Scott Sumner

How do you say "deficits don't matter" in Italian?

Apr 10 2020

Scott Sumner

Don't regulate health and safety

Apr 8 2020

Scott Sumner

The least bad prediction of our post-coronavirus future

Apr 6 2020

Scott Sumner

Multiplier misconceptions

Apr 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Libertarianism dodged a bullet

Apr 4 2020

Scott Sumner

Our economy will likely reboot too slowly

Apr 3 2020

Scott Sumner

"This isn't the last such crisis we'll have"

Apr 2 2020

Scott Sumner

Hubris in the West

Mar 31 2020

Scott Sumner

The world is what it is

Mar 29 2020

Scott Sumner

Some misconceptions about wage stickiness

Mar 28 2020

Scott Sumner

A battle fought on a million fronts

Mar 26 2020

Scott Sumner

The white man's disease?

Mar 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Airlines frequently go bankrupt

Mar 24 2020

Scott Sumner

Serendipity: California, the NBA, and the benefits of overreaction

Mar 23 2020

Scott Sumner

The fruits of nationalism

Mar 22 2020

Scott Sumner

Hope springs eternal

Mar 21 2020

Scott Sumner

The case for coercion is weaker than it looks

Mar 20 2020

Scott Sumner

The intuition behind the productivity norm

Mar 19 2020

Scott Sumner

Scott Alexander on Herbert Hoover

Mar 18 2020

Scott Sumner

There's never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus

Mar 17 2020

Scott Sumner

The "d" word

Mar 16 2020

Scott Sumner

The Fed didn't use even 10% of its "ammunition" today

Mar 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Does anyone actually care about monetary and fiscal "ammunition"?

Mar 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Leaders are followers

Mar 14 2020

Scott Sumner

Why are markets so pessimistic?

Mar 12 2020

Scott Sumner

The answer: One week

Mar 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Dishonesty is a core nationalist value, perhaps the core nationalist value

Mar 10 2020

Scott Sumner

Only the Fed can do major "fiscal policy"

Mar 9 2020

Scott Sumner

Oh, so NOW you want our goods

Mar 7 2020

Scott Sumner

The Great Saving Shock of 2020?

Mar 6 2020

Scott Sumner

State capacity in the US and Singapore

Mar 4 2020

Scott Sumner

The weird global coronavirus data

Mar 3 2020

Scott Sumner

Not all NGDP fluctuations are bad

Mar 2 2020

Scott Sumner

Don't count on the government to protect you

Mar 2 2020

Scott Sumner

Overheating forecast bleg

Feb 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Fiscal stimulus doesn't require big government or budget deficits

Feb 27 2020

Scott Sumner

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change

Feb 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Can monetary policy prevent an epidemic from hurting the economy?

Feb 24 2020

Scott Sumner

Are the US and the UK political systems converging?

Feb 22 2020

Scott Sumner

Paul Romer's second critique of economics

Feb 20 2020

Scott Sumner

Is the US an outlier on health care spending?

Feb 19 2020

Scott Sumner

Currency Manipulation, Saving Manipulation, and the Current Account Balance

Feb 18 2020

Scott Sumner

We've seen this movie before

Feb 17 2020

Scott Sumner

Don't anthropomorphize the economy

Feb 14 2020

Scott Sumner

Is Powell relying on help from fiscal policy?

Feb 12 2020

Scott Sumner

The Indian currency experiment

Feb 11 2020

Scott Sumner

Be careful what you ask for

Feb 8 2020

Scott Sumner

Only incompetent central bankers control interest rates

Feb 7 2020

Scott Sumner

Labor unions and the Electoral College

Feb 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Marcus Nunes and Ryan Avent were right

Feb 3 2020

Scott Sumner

No libertarian Brexit

Jan 30 2020

Scott Sumner

Authoritarian nationalism is bad for your health

Jan 30 2020

Scott Sumner

Trying to understand the Huawei threat

Jan 29 2020

Scott Sumner

People are more consequentialist than they assume

Jan 28 2020

Scott Sumner

Doubts about education "reform"

Jan 26 2020

Scott Sumner

Capitalism is making the Chinese both better and happier

Jan 25 2020

Scott Sumner

Yes, the system is rigged. But how?

Jan 22 2020

Scott Sumner

Which contentious issues are NOT partisan?

Jan 21 2020

Scott Sumner

Identity cards also have costs

Jan 18 2020

Scott Sumner

NeoFisherism and QE pessimism

Jan 15 2020

Scott Sumner

Black swans and eels

Jan 13 2020

Scott Sumner

You can't have it both ways

Jan 10 2020

Scott Sumner

Monetary policy: Better to expect too much than too little

Jan 7 2020

Scott Sumner

Do big cities help economic growth?

Jan 5 2020

Scott Sumner

Bryan's 20-20 vision.

Jan 2 2020

Scott Sumner

Price flexibility is stabilizing

Jan 1 2020

Scott Sumner

David Siegel on pain medication

Dec 29 2019

Scott Sumner

Good news; Chinese defaults are rising rapidly

Dec 26 2019

Scott Sumner

My 5 favorite books

Dec 25 2019

Scott Sumner

The new spending bill is a disaster

Dec 24 2019

Scott Sumner

Ryan Murphy's "Markets Against Modernity"

Dec 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Sunset, Earthrise

Dec 21 2019

Scott Sumner

Why so little home building?

Dec 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Nationalism and corruption

Dec 17 2019

Scott Sumner

Why trade wars don't work

Dec 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Good news for Trump

Dec 12 2019

Scott Sumner

Compared to what?

Dec 12 2019

Scott Sumner

Is the "War on Tech" just around the corner?

Dec 10 2019

Scott Sumner

Paul Volcker's legacy

Dec 9 2019

Scott Sumner

The business cycle is dying

Dec 7 2019

Scott Sumner

Facts about life expectancy (true and false)

Dec 4 2019

Scott Sumner

Stress test the government?

Dec 2 2019

Scott Sumner

Don't expect too much from sanctions

Dec 1 2019

Scott Sumner

Another reason why income is misleading

Nov 30 2019

Scott Sumner

There is no Deep State

Nov 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Bill Gates and Ohio auto parts factory workers

Nov 25 2019

Scott Sumner

The return of "might makes right"

Nov 24 2019

Scott Sumner

The best critiques are from within

Nov 23 2019

Scott Sumner

Let's have more talk of "magic money trees"

Nov 20 2019

Scott Sumner

About those Republican judges

Nov 19 2019

Scott Sumner

Income tax rates are a misleading indicator

Nov 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Why has the natural rate of unemployment fallen to such a low level?

Nov 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Putting the fun back into being a fungus

Nov 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Regulation creates concentration

Nov 11 2019

Scott Sumner

The bubble in phony bubble calls

Nov 10 2019

Scott Sumner

Why does Australia have mini-recessions?

Nov 7 2019

Scott Sumner

Pay attention to what people are not talking about

Nov 5 2019

Scott Sumner

The China (manipulation) shock and the (mostly) Trump fiscal shock

Nov 4 2019

Scott Sumner

Countries are not anecdotes

Nov 3 2019

Scott Sumner

Trump failed to save Big Coal; can Warren succeed?

Nov 2 2019

Scott Sumner

Do spending caps work?

Oct 31 2019

Scott Sumner

Stall speed and mini-recessions

Oct 29 2019

Scott Sumner

Duflo and Banerjee advocate bigger government

Oct 27 2019

Scott Sumner

Monetary offset is more mainstream than you think

Oct 25 2019

Scott Sumner

Can tariffs have a deflationary impact?

Oct 23 2019

Scott Sumner

Making Canada Great for the first time

Oct 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Will "soak the rich" make Democratic states feel blue?

Oct 21 2019

Scott Sumner

Theory and practice

Oct 19 2019

Scott Sumner

Is the UK about to become Canada?

Oct 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Credibility, predictability, consistency

Oct 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Rational expectations isn't the problem; it's the solution.

Oct 12 2019

Scott Sumner

The complex roots of anti-Asian bigotry

Oct 10 2019

Scott Sumner

Killing two birds with one stone

Oct 8 2019

Scott Sumner

Should presidents make policy?

Oct 7 2019

Scott Sumner

Do the "ends justify the means"?

Oct 4 2019

Scott Sumner

What the Saudi oil shock tells us about monetary policy

Oct 3 2019

Scott Sumner

Everyone's a monetarist (except when it comes to money)

Oct 1 2019

Scott Sumner

Politics is the problem---trade is the answer

Sep 30 2019

Scott Sumner

Are libertarians being purged?

Sep 28 2019

Scott Sumner

What does the US want from China?

Sep 27 2019

Scott Sumner

The curse of size

Sep 26 2019

Scott Sumner

Be careful what you wish for

Sep 24 2019

Scott Sumner

So you don't believe in using PPP data?

Sep 23 2019

Scott Sumner

The Great Chinese Firewall

Sep 21 2019

Scott Sumner

Bubble mutual funds

Sep 20 2019

Scott Sumner

Germany's real business cycle

Sep 19 2019

Scott Sumner

The market finds a way

Sep 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Can innovation be sped up?

Sep 14 2019

Scott Sumner

The unsung success of Japan's recent fiscal policy

Sep 12 2019

Scott Sumner

The proper goal of education is utility, not learning

Sep 10 2019

Scott Sumner

Is Fed policy "premised importantly" on market monetarism being true?

Sep 8 2019

Scott Sumner

Does price stickiness explain "lowflation"?

Sep 6 2019

Scott Sumner

The coming technocracy

Sep 3 2019

Scott Sumner

A UBI will not eliminate poverty

Aug 31 2019

Scott Sumner

Using monetary policy as a political weapon

Aug 29 2019

Scott Sumner

A trade war is not a carbon tax

Aug 27 2019

Scott Sumner

Language trumps money

Aug 26 2019

Scott Sumner

There's no reason to go heterodox

Aug 24 2019

Scott Sumner

Not all pessimistic theories can be true

Aug 23 2019

Scott Sumner

How soon we forget

Aug 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Industrial Policy: Shouldn't we actively encourage X, rather than just passively allow Y?

Aug 20 2019

Scott Sumner

21st century problems

Aug 19 2019

Scott Sumner

How has Keynes's liquidity trap theory held up over time?

Aug 17 2019

Scott Sumner

What is the lesson from the East Asian miracle?

Aug 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Easy credit and tight money

Aug 14 2019

Scott Sumner

The hardest problem in public policy

Aug 12 2019

Scott Sumner

Should we discourage medical malpractice lawsuits?

Aug 10 2019

Scott Sumner

Blind faith in government

Aug 8 2019

Scott Sumner

Think of low interest rates as an outcome, not a tool

Aug 6 2019

Scott Sumner

The laws of economics cannot be wished away

Aug 5 2019

Scott Sumner

Central banks should sell money, not give it away

Aug 2 2019

Scott Sumner

Beyond victims and villains

Aug 1 2019

Scott Sumner

Eight claims about interest rates

Jul 31 2019

Scott Sumner

Peter Thiel's pivot

Jul 30 2019

Scott Sumner

News from 2021

Jul 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Consumption and GDP

Jul 27 2019

Scott Sumner

Why the focus on non-residential investment?

Jul 25 2019

Scott Sumner

Recent studies of QE

Jul 22 2019

Scott Sumner

The JEC report on the economy

Jul 19 2019

Scott Sumner

Political issues of the 2020s

Jul 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Health care subsidies are almost impossible to reform

Jul 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Why both liberals and conservatives will lose on health care (in the short run)

Jul 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Good intentions are not enough

Jul 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Public opinion regarding cash for kidneys

Jul 12 2019

Scott Sumner

Do longer expansions store up trouble for the future?

Jul 10 2019

Scott Sumner

An epic example of wealth destruction

Jul 9 2019

Scott Sumner

The market is the dog; the Fed is the tail

Jul 8 2019

Scott Sumner

Appointing justices "such as Gorsuch and Kavanaugh"

Jul 7 2019

Scott Sumner

Don't ask the citizenship question

Jul 5 2019

Scott Sumner

Two more widely held views

Jul 5 2019

Scott Sumner

When doves fly

Jul 3 2019

Scott Sumner

Two areas where I am out of step

Jul 1 2019

Scott Sumner

The greatness of Milton Friedman

Jun 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Against political art

Jun 26 2019

Scott Sumner

War by any other means

Jun 24 2019

Scott Sumner

Macro theory for all times and all places

Jun 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Does the Fed set monetary policy in Hong Kong?

Jun 21 2019

Scott Sumner

The Trump administration's advice to Malaysia

Jun 20 2019

Scott Sumner

Poke out one of my eyes

Jun 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Freedom to travel

Jun 17 2019

Scott Sumner

What is the optimal NGDP growth rate?

Jun 16 2019

Scott Sumner

Should the government step in?

Jun 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Health care prices and quantities

Jun 12 2019

Scott Sumner

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen on Fed policy and interest rates

Jun 11 2019

Scott Sumner

John Cochrane on currency manipulation in Germany and Italy

Jun 9 2019

Scott Sumner

Is the Fed inflating asset prices?

Jun 7 2019

Scott Sumner

Advice to libertarians and progressives

Jun 5 2019

Scott Sumner

Five monetary policies

Jun 3 2019

Scott Sumner

Lessons of 2008

Jun 2 2019

Scott Sumner

The Fed's too slow

May 31 2019

Scott Sumner

The China shock ended long ago

May 30 2019

Scott Sumner

More double standards

May 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Fiscal austerity in Japan

May 26 2019

Scott Sumner

The confusing terminology of monetary policy

May 23 2019

Scott Sumner

"Things have changed"

May 22 2019

Scott Sumner

George Warren, market monetarist

May 21 2019

Scott Sumner

Virtue and vice signalling

May 20 2019

Scott Sumner

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing

May 17 2019

Scott Sumner

The real wage myth

May 15 2019

Scott Sumner

Who is most vulnerable in a trade war?

May 14 2019

Scott Sumner

Inflation is about monetary policy

May 13 2019

Scott Sumner

Save us from the (economic) puritans

May 10 2019

Scott Sumner

How not to save for college

May 8 2019

Scott Sumner

Trillion $ Trump Tweets

May 6 2019

Scott Sumner

Sebastian Edwards on MMT and Latin American populism

May 3 2019

Scott Sumner

Individual truths, democratic truths, expert truths and market truths

May 1 2019

Scott Sumner

Backlash against whom?

Apr 30 2019

Scott Sumner

Gérard Araud on the decline of neoliberalism

Apr 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Changing places with Europe

Apr 26 2019

Scott Sumner

Does the Fed treat 2% inflation as a ceiling?

Apr 24 2019

Scott Sumner

"The" output gap doesn't exist

Apr 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Don't use a snow shovel to sip a cup of soup

Apr 20 2019

Scott Sumner

Shoot to kill: Power, precision, sufficiency and the appropriate target

Apr 18 2019

Scott Sumner

The sad decline of American democracy

Apr 17 2019

Scott Sumner

China's growth---what do we actually know?

Apr 16 2019

Scott Sumner

The strange endgame of protectionism

Apr 15 2019

Scott Sumner

How much has Brexit uncertainty slowed growth?

Apr 12 2019

Scott Sumner

The real MMT

Apr 10 2019

Scott Sumner

Happiness pessimist, economic agnostic

Apr 9 2019

Scott Sumner

Reforming labor markets

Apr 8 2019

Scott Sumner

Lucky to stabilize NGDP, not inflation

Apr 6 2019

Scott Sumner

Does MMT need a mathematical model? Or greater self-awareness?

Apr 4 2019

Scott Sumner

Market mimicking monetary policy

Apr 2 2019

Scott Sumner

The NGDP targeting boom

Mar 31 2019

Scott Sumner

Spending must be paid for---but when?

Mar 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Inspector Clouseau is looking for clues

Mar 26 2019

Scott Sumner

Good news on trade

Mar 24 2019

Scott Sumner

Change the culture

Mar 23 2019

Scott Sumner

Cutting rates would not be reversing course

Mar 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Steve Moore for the Fed?

Mar 22 2019

Scott Sumner

Why is the public debt situation in Italy worse than in Japan?

Mar 21 2019

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

Scott Sumner

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

Scott Sumner

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

Scott Sumner

America's increasingly incoherent trade policy

Mar 5 2019

Scott Sumner

Global factors don't determine US inflation

Mar 3 2019

Scott Sumner

More MMT follies (Sympathy for Krugman)

Mar 1 2019

Scott Sumner

The wage decoupling mess

Feb 27 2019

Scott Sumner

Keynesianism, NeoFisherism, and MMT

Feb 26 2019

Scott Sumner

Alex Tabarrok on the kidney market

Feb 24 2019

Scott Sumner

About those "traditional models"

Feb 23 2019

Scott Sumner

It's blackmail all the way down

Feb 21 2019

Scott Sumner

Another big success for libertarianism

Feb 20 2019

Scott Sumner

High-powered money (100 years of stability)

Feb 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Lessons from the Golden State

Feb 17 2019

Scott Sumner

Against blackmail

Feb 15 2019

Scott Sumner

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

Feb 14 2019

Scott Sumner

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

Scott Sumner

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

Feb 4 2019

Scott Sumner

The gig economy, minimum wages, and unemployment

Feb 2 2019

Scott Sumner

Outfoxed and conned, part 2

Jan 31 2019

Scott Sumner

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

Scott Sumner

MMT is wrong

Jan 25 2019

Scott Sumner

Do free markets create urban sprawl?

Jan 24 2019

Scott Sumner

Lincicome on the China shock

Jan 21 2019

Scott Sumner

2% inflation changes everything

Jan 19 2019

Scott Sumner

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

Scott Sumner

Alternative Money University

Jan 2 2019

Scott Sumner

Government regulation: Even worse than we thought

Dec 31 2018

Scott Sumner

Let's not emphasize behavioral economics

Dec 28 2018

Scott Sumner

Another neoliberal miracle

Dec 25 2018

Scott Sumner

Where are we overreacting today?

Dec 23 2018

Scott Sumner

The US is becoming more like Europe

Dec 21 2018

Scott Sumner

If I knew the answer to that question . . .

Dec 19 2018

Scott Sumner

The many problems with public opinion

Dec 18 2018

Scott Sumner

People, there's a whole world out there

Dec 16 2018

Scott Sumner

Just blow it all up?

Dec 14 2018

Scott Sumner

Regulation watch

Dec 12 2018

Scott Sumner

Bitcoin is not a bubble

Dec 11 2018

Scott Sumner

What should be regarded as property?

Dec 10 2018

Scott Sumner

Parmesan cheese and Sunbucks Coffee

Dec 9 2018

Scott Sumner

Monetary policy effectiveness: Regimes and instruments

Dec 7 2018

Scott Sumner

Recession risk and the circularity problem

Dec 6 2018

Scott Sumner

How should we think about the theft of intellectual property?

Dec 5 2018

Scott Sumner

Should the Fed purchase Treasuries only?

Dec 5 2018

Scott Sumner

The politics of budget deficits

Dec 3 2018

Scott Sumner

The dog that isn't barking

Dec 2 2018

Scott Sumner

Fun with life expectancies

Nov 30 2018

Scott Sumner

How should we think about Russian meddling in the 2016 election?

Nov 29 2018

Scott Sumner

Some thoughts on Powell's speech

Nov 28 2018

Scott Sumner

Automation causes trade

Nov 26 2018

Scott Sumner

How important is economic growth? And can we do much about it?

Nov 23 2018

Scott Sumner

Thanksgiving in Little Hill Village

Nov 22 2018

Scott Sumner

Tonto's perspective

Nov 20 2018

Scott Sumner

Us and them

Nov 18 2018

Scott Sumner

Extremism in the defense of subsidized liberty is a (conservative) vice

Nov 16 2018

Scott Sumner

The Wizard of OZK

Nov 14 2018

Scott Sumner

Teaching to the test

Nov 12 2018

Scott Sumner

Some thoughts on global warming

Nov 10 2018

Scott Sumner

(Unconditional) prediction is overrated

Nov 8 2018

Scott Sumner

No more public mass transit infrastructure

Nov 6 2018

Scott Sumner

I don't find "monetary disequilibrium" to be a useful concept

Nov 4 2018

Scott Sumner

Are workers paid their marginal product? Should they be?

Nov 2 2018

Scott Sumner

The case for European health care

Oct 31 2018

Scott Sumner

Should the Fed pay attention to the stock market?

Oct 29 2018

Scott Sumner

No equity/efficiency trade-off here

Oct 25 2018

Scott Sumner

Fed independence? Compared to what?

Oct 25 2018

Scott Sumner

What wage mystery?

Oct 24 2018

Scott Sumner

A not so happy ending

Oct 23 2018

Scott Sumner

Two questions about commercial real estate lending

Oct 21 2018

Scott Sumner

What's good for big tobacco . . .

Oct 18 2018

Scott Sumner

Pro-business but not pro-market

Oct 16 2018

Scott Sumner

Why recessions are hard to predict

Oct 14 2018

Scott Sumner

Decentralization and international affairs

Oct 11 2018

Scott Sumner

Trade realism

Oct 9 2018

Scott Sumner

Nordhaus and Romer

Oct 8 2018

Scott Sumner

Expansions are getting longer, booms are not (plus Iran deal bonus)

Oct 6 2018

Scott Sumner

The "cringe"

Oct 5 2018

Scott Sumner

Is maximizing "total wages" the right goal?

Oct 4 2018

Scott Sumner

Why a federal minimum wage?

Oct 3 2018

Scott Sumner

YIMBY!

Oct 2 2018

Scott Sumner

Fuzzy sets and the biggest scandal in economics

Sep 30 2018

Scott Sumner

A Laffer Curve for government spending

Sep 29 2018

Scott Sumner

What can we learn from the Bank of England?

Sep 27 2018

Scott Sumner

Reihan Salam on immigration

Sep 25 2018

Scott Sumner

Micro vs. macro

Sep 22 2018

Scott Sumner

NIMBYism isn't just about housing

Sep 22 2018

Scott Sumner

Rashomon in 2008

Sep 19 2018

Scott Sumner

Are tariffs a big threat to China?

Sep 18 2018

Scott Sumner

Integrating immigrants

Sep 16 2018

Scott Sumner

Bring back monetarism!

Sep 14 2018

Scott Sumner

The new philanthropy

Sep 13 2018

Scott Sumner

Did Lehman cause the Great Recession?

Sep 11 2018

Scott Sumner

Who should be allowed to deposit money at the Fed?

Sep 9 2018

Scott Sumner

Don't confuse accounting with causal relationships

Sep 7 2018

Scott Sumner

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Sep 4 2018

Scott Sumner

Mugged by regulation

Sep 3 2018

Scott Sumner

Social democracy isn't socialism

Sep 2 2018

Scott Sumner

Tate Lacey sees hints of NGDP targeting in Powell's remarks

Aug 31 2018

Scott Sumner

Who should pay for fixing externalities?

Aug 30 2018

Scott Sumner

Neoliberalism is not dead

Aug 27 2018

Scott Sumner

Why so little inflation?

Aug 26 2018

Scott Sumner

The problem with sticky price models

Aug 26 2018

Scott Sumner

How to judge a judge

Aug 23 2018

Scott Sumner

Italy: The real problem is real

Aug 21 2018

Scott Sumner

Lots of axes to grind

Aug 20 2018

Scott Sumner

Charter cities in China

Aug 18 2018

Scott Sumner

Interpreting public opinion

Aug 14 2018

Scott Sumner

Be skeptical of surveys of public opinion, example #441

Aug 13 2018

Scott Sumner

The wisdom of Nick Rowe

Aug 12 2018

Scott Sumner

The US will "lose" a currency war

Aug 11 2018

Scott Sumner

Let's transfer more technology to China

Aug 10 2018

Scott Sumner

Against the Electoral College (people, not cows)

Aug 8 2018

Scott Sumner

Pro-market but not pro-business

Aug 7 2018

Scott Sumner

Keynesian fiscal policy is dead

Aug 4 2018

Scott Sumner

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Aug 3 2018

Scott Sumner

3 misconceptions about the yield spread

Jul 30 2018

Scott Sumner

Inside Democrats, outside Republicans

Jul 29 2018

Scott Sumner

How much value does the Chinese government place on freedom?

Jul 27 2018

Scott Sumner

Ignorance is bliss (for the EU)

Jul 26 2018

Scott Sumner

Peter Navarro is losing

Jul 25 2018

Scott Sumner

State capitalism, part 2

Jul 24 2018

Scott Sumner

The moral hazard presidency?

Jul 22 2018

Scott Sumner

Political Correctness in San Francisco

Jul 20 2018

Scott Sumner

Is Fed policy too easy or too tight?

Jul 17 2018

Scott Sumner

The chickens come home to roost

Jul 15 2018

Scott Sumner

Does immigration help the Dems?

Jul 12 2018

Scott Sumner

If it walks like a duck . . .

Jul 11 2018

Scott Sumner

Are there any originalists?

Jul 8 2018

Scott Sumner

Process comes first

Jul 4 2018

Scott Sumner

Two articles on Fed policy

Jul 2 2018

Scott Sumner

Is neoliberalism dead?

Jun 30 2018

Scott Sumner

The US and Turkey

Jun 29 2018

Scott Sumner

Us and them

Jun 27 2018

Scott Sumner

A stable cryptocurrency?

Jun 25 2018

Scott Sumner

What causes recessions and "empressions"?

Jun 23 2018

Scott Sumner

Is economic nationalism even possible?

Jun 21 2018

Scott Sumner

Do poverty programs reduce poverty?

Jun 19 2018

Scott Sumner

Out-foxed and conned?

Jun 17 2018

Scott Sumner

What is the influence of wealth on demand?

Jun 15 2018

Scott Sumner

Our New Design

Jun 13 2018

Scott Sumner

Why the Singapore summit might be a net plus

Jun 12 2018

Scott Sumner

Good and bad nationalism

Jun 10 2018

Scott Sumner

Good and bad pardons

Jun 9 2018

Scott Sumner

FDR and George Warren

Jun 7 2018

Scott Sumner

Kevin Erdmann on the housing "bubble"

Jun 5 2018

Scott Sumner

Neoliberalism is the worst system, except for all the others

Jun 3 2018

Scott Sumner

Don't be afraid to catch a falling knife

Jun 1 2018

Scott Sumner

What "austerity"?

May 29 2018

Scott Sumner

Should central banks become banks?

May 28 2018

Scott Sumner

Moral responsibility

May 27 2018

Scott Sumner

Cash for bonds

May 24 2018

Scott Sumner

America bullies the world

May 22 2018

Scott Sumner

UBI vs. guaranteed jobs vs. wage subsidies

May 19 2018

Scott Sumner

Markets are inhuman (and that's a good thing)

May 17 2018

Scott Sumner

Safe haven or tight money?

May 15 2018

Scott Sumner

Questions about Japan

May 14 2018

Scott Sumner

How much idealism is ideal?

May 12 2018

Scott Sumner

Monetary policy (mostly) determines nominal wage growth

May 11 2018

Scott Sumner

Three contrarian opinions

May 10 2018

Scott Sumner

Leland Yeager, RIP

May 9 2018

Scott Sumner

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing

May 8 2018

Scott Sumner

Very bad news on housing

May 7 2018

Scott Sumner

Trade is not the problem

May 5 2018

Scott Sumner

Does the recognition lag give the Fed an alibi for 2008?

May 2 2018

Scott Sumner

The monetary economics of the 2040s, today

Apr 30 2018

Scott Sumner

Target the unbiased forecast

Apr 28 2018

Scott Sumner

Macroprudential?

Apr 26 2018

Scott Sumner

So you want my opinion?

Apr 24 2018

Scott Sumner

Building more highways will reduce traffic congestion

Apr 22 2018

Scott Sumner

The US is unlikely to default

Apr 20 2018

Scott Sumner

Beware of macro survey questions

Apr 18 2018

Scott Sumner

Don't tax death

Apr 15 2018

Scott Sumner

It's that time of year again

Apr 13 2018

Scott Sumner

What empirical evidence should we trust?

Apr 11 2018

Scott Sumner

When "deregulation" becomes crony capitalism

Apr 7 2018

Scott Sumner

What happened in 2004?

Apr 4 2018

Scott Sumner

FDR's immaculate inflation

Apr 1 2018

Scott Sumner

Why stop at price level targeting?

Mar 30 2018

Scott Sumner

From liberalism to illiberalism

Mar 30 2018

Scott Sumner

How much leverage does America have in trade?

Mar 27 2018

Scott Sumner

Getting out in front of the parade

Mar 25 2018

Scott Sumner

What if Trump wins the China IP dispute?

Mar 22 2018

Scott Sumner

Forza Italia!

Mar 21 2018

Scott Sumner

The West was right about China

Mar 19 2018

Scott Sumner

Coase and Krugman

Mar 17 2018

Scott Sumner

Who are we?

Mar 16 2018

Scott Sumner

Functional capitalism

Mar 14 2018

Scott Sumner

Norway's peculiar decision

Mar 13 2018

Scott Sumner

Japan and market monetarism

Mar 12 2018

Scott Sumner

The letter and the spirit of the law

Mar 11 2018

Scott Sumner

You don't know what you've got till it's gone

Mar 9 2018

Scott Sumner

Two kinds of supply shocks

Mar 7 2018

Scott Sumner

1973: Utopia or dystopia?

Mar 5 2018

Scott Sumner

Imagine not knowing who the President is

Mar 4 2018

Scott Sumner

The new fault lines

Mar 3 2018

Scott Sumner

Trade war? What could go wrong?

Mar 2 2018

Scott Sumner

Don't give them anywhere to hide

Feb 28 2018

Scott Sumner

Answering the wrong question

Feb 27 2018

Scott Sumner

Americans are richer and happier* than Europeans

Feb 26 2018

Scott Sumner

Bad news from China

Feb 25 2018

Scott Sumner

Don't use the Phillips Curve, destroy it

Feb 24 2018

Scott Sumner

Will the Swiss adopt 100% reserve banking?

Feb 23 2018

Scott Sumner

You get what you pay for

Feb 22 2018

Scott Sumner

Do deficits matter?

Feb 21 2018

Scott Sumner

There's no success like failure

Feb 20 2018

Scott Sumner

Will Trump reverse Obama's H-4 program?

Feb 19 2018

Scott Sumner

Never reason from an interest rate spread

Feb 18 2018

Scott Sumner

Please, don't experiment with monetary policy

Feb 16 2018

Scott Sumner

Why are non-whites so libertarian?

Feb 15 2018

Scott Sumner

Is Paul Krugman now too conservative for our textbooks?

Feb 13 2018

Scott Sumner

Don't use monetary policy to boost wages

Feb 11 2018