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Modern art and political polarization

Jun 30 2024

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Is Macro Making Progress?

Jun 27 2024

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Focus on What We Say, Not What We Do

Jun 26 2024

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The Internal Contradictions of Nationalism

Jun 23 2024

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Ask a stupid question . . .

Jun 21 2024

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The wisdom of Janan Ganesh

Jun 19 2024

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Nominal GDP as an Indicator

Jun 17 2024

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When China Innovates

Jun 15 2024

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Is Art as Progressive as Science?

Jun 13 2024

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Bernanke on Forward Guidance

Jun 12 2024

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Where Biden Went Off Course

Jun 9 2024

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Double Trouble

Jun 7 2024

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Lessons from a Non-Recession

Jun 6 2024

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Bad Reasoning

Jun 4 2024

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Summarizing my Blogging

Jun 2 2024

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Thanks for Nothing

Jun 1 2024

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National agoraphobia

Jun 30 2023

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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

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Journalistic clichés

Jun 23 2023

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Was Arthur Burns a bad Fed chair?

Jun 22 2023

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Housing and Immigration

Jun 19 2023

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America's Most Bipartisan Issue

Jun 19 2023

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Dumb Ideas

Jun 16 2023

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Leave us alone

Jun 14 2023

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Financial Problems are Endogenous

Jun 13 2023

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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

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Beware of Foolproof Recession Indicators

Jun 3 2023

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California has Money to Burn

Jun 1 2023

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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

Scott Sumner

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

Scott Sumner

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

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

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The other F-word

Jun 4 2022

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Is fiscal policy fairer?

Jun 1 2022

Scott Sumner

Teaching the Fed as the hero

Jun 29 2021

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Strange moral calculations

Jun 26 2021

Scott Sumner

TV prices and British queens

Jun 24 2021

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Temporary insanity (learning from mistakes)

Jun 22 2021

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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

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The labor supply shock

Jun 5 2021

Scott Sumner

Regulation can be painful

Jun 2 2021

Scott Sumner

Reforming unemployment insurance

Jun 30 2020

Scott Sumner

The Supreme Court is a follower, not a leader

Jun 28 2020

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Living on a one dimensional planet

Jun 25 2020

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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

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The greatness of Milton Friedman

Jun 28 2019

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Against political art

Jun 26 2019

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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

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

My views on monetary economics

Jun 29 2017

Scott Sumner

How should we measure productivity?

Jun 26 2017

Scott Sumner

Nominal exchange rates, real exchange rates and protectionism

Jun 23 2017

Scott Sumner

What's causing the low inflation?

Jun 21 2017

Scott Sumner

Immigration and growth

Jun 19 2017

Scott Sumner

How much did poverty rise under Reagan?

Jun 17 2017

Scott Sumner

Larry Summers, market monetarist?

Jun 15 2017

Scott Sumner

What monopsony power in the labor market looks like

Jun 13 2017

Scott Sumner

The Fed needs a new "theory"

Jun 12 2017

Scott Sumner

Does tribalism breed extremism?

Jun 11 2017

Scott Sumner

The WSJ on the German trade surplus

Jun 9 2017

Scott Sumner

Should declining mobility impact monetary policy?

Jun 7 2017

Scott Sumner

Real and nominal shocks

Jun 5 2017

Scott Sumner

Two new picks for the Fed?

Jun 3 2017

Scott Sumner

American banking: Socialism or laissez-faire?

Jun 2 2017

Scott Sumner

It's the end of the world as we know it . . . and the FTSE100 feels fine

Jun 30 2016

Scott Sumner

Could a successful Brexit wreck the eurozone?

Jun 29 2016

Scott Sumner

The pound depreciated by 10%. What does that mean?

Jun 27 2016

Scott Sumner

Sumnerian luck and monetary reform

Jun 25 2016

Scott Sumner

Brexit is not about Britain

Jun 24 2016

Scott Sumner

Bob Murphy reviews The Midas Paradox

Jun 23 2016

Scott Sumner

Was Chernobyl the best thing that ever happened to Europe's environment?

Jun 21 2016

Scott Sumner

Right wing doesn't mean pro-free market

Jun 19 2016

Scott Sumner

Just how influential is the USA?

Jun 17 2016

Scott Sumner

Three ways to do a UBI: None are feasible

Jun 16 2016

Scott Sumner

Neoliberalism: There is no alternative

Jun 15 2016

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Reply to Jerry O'Driscoll

Jun 12 2016

Scott Sumner

The Left, Greece, and The Big Lie

Jun 11 2016

Scott Sumner

Some initial thoughts on banking reform

Jun 9 2016

Scott Sumner

Does QE reduce the public debt burden?

Jun 8 2016

Scott Sumner

Why are NYT editorials so staggeringly bad?

Jun 6 2016

Scott Sumner

Which direction for macro?

Jun 4 2016

Scott Sumner

Slippery slope? Let's hope so

Jun 3 2016

Scott Sumner

The infrastructure illusion

Jun 1 2016

Scott Sumner

Macroeconomics in small economies

Jun 30 2015

Scott Sumner

Europe's soft underbelly

Jun 29 2015

Scott Sumner

Why can't we have nice things?

Jun 28 2015

Scott Sumner

1937 and 2013

Jun 26 2015

Scott Sumner

I don't favor an interventionist monetary policy to fix recessions

Jun 24 2015

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The "other things"

Jun 23 2015

Scott Sumner

A bit freer today than yesterday

Jun 22 2015

Scott Sumner

Japan's 2014 tax increase worked; they should do it again

Jun 21 2015

Scott Sumner

Could a well designed euro have worked?

Jun 20 2015

Scott Sumner

The Democrats move left

Jun 19 2015

Scott Sumner

Russ Roberts vs. Simon Wren-Lewis

Jun 18 2015

Scott Sumner

Kevin Drum's Third Law is wrong

Jun 16 2015

Scott Sumner

Matt Yglesias on environmental impact regulations

Jun 15 2015

Scott Sumner

Voters in successful neoliberal economies have no interest in Pikettynomics

Jun 14 2015

Scott Sumner

Interpersonal utility comparisons are unavoidable

Jun 13 2015

Scott Sumner

How egalitarianism failed Japan

Jun 12 2015

Scott Sumner

Market monetarism in Iceland?

Jun 10 2015

Scott Sumner

Second best policy arguments

Jun 9 2015

Scott Sumner

Peter Pan in Japan

Jun 8 2015

Scott Sumner

The world's three smallest macro models

Jun 7 2015

Scott Sumner

The (white) kids are alright

Jun 6 2015

Scott Sumner

Reply to Austan Goolsbee

Jun 3 2015

Scott Sumner

Larry Summers on NGDP targeting

Jun 3 2015

Scott Sumner

The Fed is not doing its job

Jun 2 2015

Scott Sumner

Why are interest expenses tax deductible?

Jun 1 2015

Scott Sumner

When is nominal GDP targeting optimal?

Jun 28 2014

Scott Sumner

Piketty on "merit"

Jun 26 2014

Scott Sumner

Unpersuaded

Jun 23 2014

Scott Sumner

The Fed at 100: A century of procyclical policy

Jun 20 2014

Scott Sumner

What does 1933-80 tell us about banking regulation?

Jun 17 2014

Scott Sumner

Fiscally inefficient monetary policy

Jun 13 2014

Scott Sumner

Never reason from an interest rate change

Jun 11 2014

Scott Sumner

Liberalism unbound: Free lunch and dinner--all you can eat!

Jun 10 2014

Scott Sumner

Obama is to the right of Texas on pot legalization

Jun 7 2014

Scott Sumner

The First Fundamental Law of Capitalism

Jun 6 2014

Scott Sumner

Private affluence, public squalor, high taxes

Jun 4 2014

Scott Sumner

Piketty on Kuznets

Jun 2 2014