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John Cochrane on Interest Rates and Exchange Rates

Sep 29 2024

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When Mockery Boomerangs

Sep 27 2024

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Monetary Policy Was Even Worse than We Thought

Sep 26 2024

Scott Sumner

What monetary stimulus?

Sep 24 2024

Scott Sumner

When Policy Goals Conflict

Sep 22 2024

Scott Sumner

Pessimism Bias in Polling

Sep 20 2024

Scott Sumner

Why the Experts are Wrong about Inflation

Sep 18 2024

Scott Sumner

Are we rich?

Sep 16 2024

Scott Sumner

The Cost of Regulation

Sep 15 2024

Scott Sumner

Carbon taxes vs. regulation

Sep 12 2024

Scott Sumner

Do consumers prefer price gouging?

Sep 10 2024

Scott Sumner

America's 9th Largest Export

Sep 9 2024

Scott Sumner

Don't be a Contrarian

Sep 6 2024

Scott Sumner

Are unrealized capital gains income?

Sep 4 2024

Scott Sumner

A Question for Anti-Utilitarians

Sep 2 2024

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

Cultural Philistines and Marxism

Sep 29 2017

Scott Sumner

Modern Art and Occam's Razor

Sep 27 2017

Scott Sumner

The macroeconomic elite is definitely wrong about something

Sep 26 2017

Scott Sumner

America's middle class: 50 years of amazing progress

Sep 24 2017

Scott Sumner

Reply to Bryan on utilitarianism

Sep 23 2017

Scott Sumner

Don't change the forecast; change the policy

Sep 20 2017

Scott Sumner

Beckworth interviews Summers

Sep 19 2017

Scott Sumner

Does prosperity push us to the left?

Sep 17 2017

Scott Sumner

How should we encourage exports? (And should we?)

Sep 15 2017

Scott Sumner

How do we evaluate Robert Shiller's forecast?

Sep 13 2017

Scott Sumner

Macro events (in big economies) don't have micro causes

Sep 9 2017

Scott Sumner

Are most Americans radical libertarians?

Sep 6 2017

Scott Sumner

Larry Summers on the rise of monopoly power

Sep 4 2017

Scott Sumner

The labor market is not a reliable guide to policy

Sep 2 2017

Scott Sumner

Missing moods at the Boston Globe

Sep 29 2016

Scott Sumner

Who is Peter Navarro?

Sep 27 2016

Scott Sumner

Bernanke on the Bank of Japan

Sep 26 2016

Scott Sumner

Both Barrels Blazing? What would that even look like?

Sep 25 2016

Scott Sumner

Can the economy handle a 20% fiscal contraction (at near zero interest rates?)

Sep 23 2016

Scott Sumner

Democracy: Trust the system, not the leaders

Sep 22 2016

Scott Sumner

The oil price collapse: Tax cut or reallocation?

Sep 21 2016

Scott Sumner

Globalization is not the problem, it's the solution

Sep 20 2016

Scott Sumner

Balance Sheet Anxiety (What almost everyone gets wrong)

Sep 18 2016

Scott Sumner

The Fed is planning for failure

Sep 15 2016

Scott Sumner

The Secret Stimulus: Another fiscal failure?

Sep 13 2016

Scott Sumner

In monetary policy, 8k peaks are easier to climb than 7k peaks

Sep 13 2016

Scott Sumner

Ryan Avent asks some very good questions

Sep 11 2016

Scott Sumner

Brexit is not about Britain, #2

Sep 9 2016

Scott Sumner

My paper at the monetary rules conference

Sep 7 2016

Scott Sumner

How would we know if wages were sticky?

Sep 6 2016

Scott Sumner

The interest rate fallacy

Sep 5 2016

Scott Sumner

Reply to Kocherlakota

Sep 3 2016

Scott Sumner

Brexit uncertainty and Brexit itself

Sep 2 2016

Scott Sumner

What would a principled defense of political correctness look like?

Sep 1 2016

Scott Sumner

Please stop talking about banking

Sep 30 2015

Scott Sumner

Concrete steps for Mr. Cochrane

Sep 29 2015

Scott Sumner

About those wacky libertarians

Sep 28 2015

Scott Sumner

Our bizarre system of taxing capital

Sep 26 2015

Scott Sumner

Japan adopts an NGDP target

Sep 25 2015

Scott Sumner

The Wicksellian Natural Rate of Interest

Sep 24 2015

Scott Sumner

Money is fungible

Sep 23 2015

Scott Sumner

Peering through the wrong end of the telescope?

Sep 22 2015

Scott Sumner

The future is soon

Sep 21 2015

Scott Sumner

Central banks target inflation

Sep 20 2015

Scott Sumner

Switzerland

Sep 19 2015

Scott Sumner

Keynesianism and market monetarism

Sep 18 2015

Scott Sumner

What makes you think Li knows the truth?

Sep 17 2015

Scott Sumner

Asking the wrong question

Sep 15 2015

Scott Sumner

Who benefits from a wage subsidy?

Sep 14 2015

Scott Sumner

Did the copper SOE help Chile develop?

Sep 13 2015

Scott Sumner

How the subprime crisis morphed into the Great Recession

Sep 12 2015

Scott Sumner

Does the impact of Keynesian stimulus depend on what we call it?

Sep 10 2015

Scott Sumner

Sticky wage model test: The results are in

Sep 9 2015

Scott Sumner

Does the Fed need guardrails? Should they want guardrails?

Sep 6 2015

Scott Sumner

Do we really want to control health care costs?

Sep 4 2015

Scott Sumner

Is the economy becoming less interest sensitive? And does it matter?

Sep 3 2015

Scott Sumner

Markets are self-aware

Sep 2 2015

Scott Sumner

Pseudo-recessions and actual recessions

Sep 1 2015

Scott Sumner

Flying blind

Sep 30 2014

Scott Sumner

Don't jump to conclusions (markets are smarter than you or I)

Sep 28 2014

Scott Sumner

What kind of Great Stagnation?

Sep 27 2014

Scott Sumner

Is the middle class being "squeezed?"

Sep 26 2014

Scott Sumner

Canadian success

Sep 23 2014

Scott Sumner

The Key to victory: Run against Piketty-nomics

Sep 22 2014

Scott Sumner

There is nothing tautological about market monetarism

Sep 21 2014

Scott Sumner

What's wrong with Hong Kong? (Too much government)

Sep 20 2014

Scott Sumner

Inequality in education

Sep 19 2014

Scott Sumner

Once again, tight money is the Achilles heel of the right

Sep 16 2014

Scott Sumner

Ending slavery made America richer

Sep 13 2014

Scott Sumner

The Closing of the Liberal Mind (pt. 2)

Sep 12 2014

Scott Sumner

Lorenzo on the opponents of neoliberalism

Sep 10 2014

Scott Sumner

The Wall Street Journal must think Milton Friedman was a Keynesian

Sep 9 2014

Scott Sumner

Is deflation bad?

Sep 8 2014

Scott Sumner

Never reason from a wage change

Sep 7 2014

Scott Sumner

Four things I believe

Sep 5 2014

Scott Sumner

Predicting bubbles

Sep 1 2014