Scott Sumner

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Scott Sumner

It's about time

Jul 6 2022

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Ideas don't stay discredited forever

Jul 4 2022

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The "two negative quarters" myth

Jul 3 2022

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The risk of recession

Jul 1 2022

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NIMBY, YIMBY or MIMBY?

Jun 29 2022

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What do you actually believe?

Jun 28 2022

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Blue votes, red policy

Jun 27 2022

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Krugman on the effects of a hot economy

Jun 26 2022

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To succeed, one must recognize success

Jun 24 2022

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Killing 4 birds with one stone

Jun 22 2022

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Global warming: Are both sides wrong?

Jun 21 2022

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Is there a case for higher inflation?

Jun 20 2022

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Why so glum?

Jun 17 2022

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What happened to good news?

Jun 16 2022

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The woke are feeding on themselves

Jun 14 2022

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The Fed knew

Jun 13 2022

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6% of Americans are woke extremists

Jun 13 2022

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Nationalism and the global economy

Jun 11 2022

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Supply is more elastic than you think

Jun 10 2022

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Why so many Covid deaths?

Jun 9 2022

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Is Europe also overheating?

Jun 7 2022

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Firemen and arsonists

Jun 5 2022

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The other F-word

Jun 4 2022

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Is fiscal policy fairer?

Jun 1 2022

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What "obvious" reason?

May 28 2022

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Who are the homeless?

May 26 2022

Scott Sumner

Is pilot error a possibility?

May 25 2022

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California housing prices and homelessness

May 23 2022

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Is money getting tighter?

May 22 2022

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Theory and empirical evidence

May 20 2022

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Is California a good place to live?

May 19 2022

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Think big, but don't buy Greenland

May 16 2022

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The problem with fiscal policy

May 14 2022

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Inflation is worse than it looks

May 12 2022

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First they came for the communists . . .

May 11 2022

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America's most libertarian governor?

May 9 2022

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Ending transitory inflation is easy

May 7 2022

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Steer the bus AND straighten the road

May 6 2022

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Mercatus Center Friedman symposium

May 4 2022

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Avoid snap judgments

May 1 2022

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The man who was correct

Apr 28 2022

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The power to subsidize is the power to destroy

Apr 26 2022

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The Fed 3.0

Apr 26 2022

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Jason Furman was wrong

Apr 24 2022

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Jason Furman is right

Apr 23 2022

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Then and now

Apr 22 2022

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NIRA redux

Apr 20 2022

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The dog that didn't bark

Apr 18 2022

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It's the stupidity, stupid

Apr 16 2022

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Removing ego from monetary policy

Apr 14 2022

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Should we have free trade in a dangerous world?

Apr 12 2022

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Don't conflate nationalism with patriotism

Apr 10 2022

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Nominal GDP as a policy guide

Apr 9 2022

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Whom can you trust?

Apr 8 2022

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Is there a carbon tax in our future?

Apr 5 2022

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All that glitters . . .

Apr 3 2022

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Back to gold?

Mar 31 2022

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What caused the high inflation?

Mar 29 2022

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Trust, but verify

Mar 27 2022

Scott Sumner

Like sending a check to Putin

Mar 25 2022

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Yes, we can "whip inflation now"

Mar 23 2022

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Why the Fed should hit its target

Mar 21 2022

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Industrial policy and wish lists

Mar 20 2022

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Should bank examiners do monetary policy?

Mar 18 2022

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The Fed abandons average inflation targeting

Mar 16 2022

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Artificially low rates? Yes, finally.

Mar 15 2022

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No sanctions without globalization

Mar 14 2022

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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

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Foreign policy is hard

Mar 5 2022

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Do you remember 1973?

Mar 4 2022

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Heading down north, part 2

Mar 2 2022

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Confusion about "overheating"

Feb 28 2022

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There is no such thing as Russian public opinion

Feb 25 2022

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A SWIFT and sure way to punish Russia

Feb 24 2022

Scott Sumner

The rise and fall and rise of nationalism

Feb 24 2022

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Do we need labels to think?

Feb 23 2022

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Is FAIT a mystery cult?

Feb 21 2022

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Is money (nominally) neutral?

Feb 18 2022

Scott Sumner

The pessimists were correct about Covid

Feb 17 2022

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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

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Straight Outta Compton

Feb 10 2022

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Should the Fed be led by experts?

Feb 8 2022

Scott Sumner

NGDP targeting and libertarianism

Feb 6 2022

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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

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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

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Borderline cases

Jan 13 2022

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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

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Where are we making progress?

Jan 1 2022