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David Siegel on pain medication

Dec 29 2019

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Good news; Chinese defaults are rising rapidly

Dec 26 2019

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My 5 favorite books

Dec 25 2019

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The new spending bill is a disaster

Dec 24 2019

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Ryan Murphy's "Markets Against Modernity"

Dec 22 2019

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Sunset, Earthrise

Dec 21 2019

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Why so little home building?

Dec 18 2019

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Nationalism and corruption

Dec 17 2019

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Why trade wars don't work

Dec 14 2019

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Good news for Trump

Dec 12 2019

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Compared to what?

Dec 12 2019

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

Dec 10 2019

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Paul Volcker's legacy

Dec 9 2019

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The business cycle is dying

Dec 7 2019

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Facts about life expectancy (true and false)

Dec 4 2019

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Stress test the government?

Dec 2 2019

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Don't expect too much from sanctions

Dec 1 2019

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Another reason why income is misleading

Nov 30 2019

Scott Sumner

There is no Deep State

Nov 28 2019

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Bill Gates and Ohio auto parts factory workers

Nov 25 2019

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The return of "might makes right"

Nov 24 2019

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The best critiques are from within

Nov 23 2019

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

Nov 20 2019

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About those Republican judges

Nov 19 2019

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Income tax rates are a misleading indicator

Nov 18 2019

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

Nov 16 2019

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Putting the fun back into being a fungus

Nov 14 2019

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Regulation creates concentration

Nov 11 2019

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The bubble in phony bubble calls

Nov 10 2019

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Why does Australia have mini-recessions?

Nov 7 2019

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Pay attention to what people are not talking about

Nov 5 2019

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

Nov 4 2019

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Countries are not anecdotes

Nov 3 2019

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Trump failed to save Big Coal; can Warren succeed?

Nov 2 2019

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Do spending caps work?

Oct 31 2019

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Stall speed and mini-recessions

Oct 29 2019

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Duflo and Banerjee advocate bigger government

Oct 27 2019

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Monetary offset is more mainstream than you think

Oct 25 2019

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Can tariffs have a deflationary impact?

Oct 23 2019

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Making Canada Great for the first time

Oct 22 2019

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

Oct 21 2019

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Theory and practice

Oct 19 2019

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Is the UK about to become Canada?

Oct 16 2019

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Credibility, predictability, consistency

Oct 14 2019

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

Oct 12 2019

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The complex roots of anti-Asian bigotry

Oct 10 2019

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Killing two birds with one stone

Oct 8 2019

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Should presidents make policy?

Oct 7 2019

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Do the "ends justify the means"?

Oct 4 2019

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What the Saudi oil shock tells us about monetary policy

Oct 3 2019

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

Oct 1 2019

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Politics is the problem---trade is the answer

Sep 30 2019

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Are libertarians being purged?

Sep 28 2019

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What does the US want from China?

Sep 27 2019

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The curse of size

Sep 26 2019

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Be careful what you wish for

Sep 24 2019

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So you don't believe in using PPP data?

Sep 23 2019

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The Great Chinese Firewall

Sep 21 2019

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Bubble mutual funds

Sep 20 2019

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Germany's real business cycle

Sep 19 2019

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The market finds a way

Sep 18 2019

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Can innovation be sped up?

Sep 14 2019

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The unsung success of Japan's recent fiscal policy

Sep 12 2019

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The proper goal of education is utility, not learning

Sep 10 2019

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

Sep 8 2019

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Does price stickiness explain "lowflation"?

Sep 6 2019

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The coming technocracy

Sep 3 2019

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A UBI will not eliminate poverty

Aug 31 2019

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Using monetary policy as a political weapon

Aug 29 2019

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A trade war is not a carbon tax

Aug 27 2019

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Language trumps money

Aug 26 2019

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There's no reason to go heterodox

Aug 24 2019

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Not all pessimistic theories can be true

Aug 23 2019

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How soon we forget

Aug 22 2019

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

Aug 20 2019

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21st century problems

Aug 19 2019

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

Aug 17 2019

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What is the lesson from the East Asian miracle?

Aug 16 2019

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Easy credit and tight money

Aug 14 2019

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The hardest problem in public policy

Aug 12 2019

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Should we discourage medical malpractice lawsuits?

Aug 10 2019

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Blind faith in government

Aug 8 2019

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

Aug 6 2019

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The laws of economics cannot be wished away

Aug 5 2019

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Central banks should sell money, not give it away

Aug 2 2019

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Beyond victims and villains

Aug 1 2019

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Eight claims about interest rates

Jul 31 2019

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Peter Thiel's pivot

Jul 30 2019

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News from 2021

Jul 28 2019

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Consumption and GDP

Jul 27 2019

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Why the focus on non-residential investment?

Jul 25 2019

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Recent studies of QE

Jul 22 2019

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The JEC report on the economy

Jul 19 2019

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Political issues of the 2020s

Jul 18 2019

Scott Sumner

Health care subsidies are almost impossible to reform

Jul 16 2019

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

Jul 16 2019

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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

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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

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Two more widely held views

Jul 5 2019

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When doves fly

Jul 3 2019

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Two areas where I am out of step

Jul 1 2019

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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

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Macro theory for all times and all places

Jun 22 2019

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Does the Fed set monetary policy in Hong Kong?

Jun 21 2019

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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

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Annette Vissing-Jorgensen on Fed policy and interest rates

Jun 11 2019

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John Cochrane on currency manipulation in Germany and Italy

Jun 9 2019

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Is the Fed inflating asset prices?

Jun 7 2019

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Advice to libertarians and progressives

Jun 5 2019

Scott Sumner

Five monetary policies

Jun 3 2019

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Lessons of 2008

Jun 2 2019

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The Fed's too slow

May 31 2019

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The China shock ended long ago

May 30 2019

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More double standards

May 28 2019

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Fiscal austerity in Japan

May 26 2019

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The confusing terminology of monetary policy

May 23 2019

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"Things have changed"

May 22 2019

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George Warren, market monetarist

May 21 2019

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Virtue and vice signalling

May 20 2019

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A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing

May 17 2019

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The real wage myth

May 15 2019

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Who is most vulnerable in a trade war?

May 14 2019

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Inflation is about monetary policy

May 13 2019

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Save us from the (economic) puritans

May 10 2019

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How not to save for college

May 8 2019

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Trillion $ Trump Tweets

May 6 2019

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Sebastian Edwards on MMT and Latin American populism

May 3 2019

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Individual truths, democratic truths, expert truths and market truths

May 1 2019

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Backlash against whom?

Apr 30 2019

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Gérard Araud on the decline of neoliberalism

Apr 28 2019

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Changing places with Europe

Apr 26 2019

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Does the Fed treat 2% inflation as a ceiling?

Apr 24 2019

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"The" output gap doesn't exist

Apr 22 2019

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

Apr 20 2019

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

Apr 18 2019

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The sad decline of American democracy

Apr 17 2019

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

Apr 16 2019

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The strange endgame of protectionism

Apr 15 2019

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How much has Brexit uncertainty slowed growth?

Apr 12 2019

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The real MMT

Apr 10 2019

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Happiness pessimist, economic agnostic

Apr 9 2019

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Reforming labor markets

Apr 8 2019

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Lucky to stabilize NGDP, not inflation

Apr 6 2019

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

Apr 4 2019

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Market mimicking monetary policy

Apr 2 2019

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The NGDP targeting boom

Mar 31 2019

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Spending must be paid for---but when?

Mar 28 2019

Scott Sumner

Inspector Clouseau is looking for clues

Mar 26 2019

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Good news on trade

Mar 24 2019

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Change the culture

Mar 23 2019

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Cutting rates would not be reversing course

Mar 22 2019

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Steve Moore for the Fed?

Mar 22 2019

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

Mar 21 2019

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How to sell a new idea in macroeconomics

Mar 19 2019

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Who's afraid of taxing the rich?

Mar 18 2019

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Why does the Fed oppose narrow banking?

Mar 16 2019

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Are economics textbooks too expensive?

Mar 14 2019

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Mankiw on teaching economics

Mar 12 2019

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Excessive debt doesn't cause inflation

Mar 9 2019

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In search of monetary equilibrium

Mar 9 2019

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

Mar 6 2019

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America's increasingly incoherent trade policy

Mar 5 2019

Scott Sumner

Global factors don't determine US inflation

Mar 3 2019

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More MMT follies (Sympathy for Krugman)

Mar 1 2019

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The wage decoupling mess

Feb 27 2019

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Keynesianism, NeoFisherism, and MMT

Feb 26 2019

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Alex Tabarrok on the kidney market

Feb 24 2019

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About those "traditional models"

Feb 23 2019

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It's blackmail all the way down

Feb 21 2019

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Another big success for libertarianism

Feb 20 2019

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High-powered money (100 years of stability)

Feb 18 2019

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Lessons from the Golden State

Feb 17 2019

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Against blackmail

Feb 15 2019

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

Feb 14 2019

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The European elite is playing a dangerous game

Feb 11 2019

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

Feb 10 2019

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How have US tariffs impacted China?

Feb 7 2019

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The internal contradictions of liberalism and illiberalism

Feb 5 2019

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

Feb 4 2019

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The gig economy, minimum wages, and unemployment

Feb 2 2019

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Outfoxed and conned, part 2

Jan 31 2019

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

Jan 30 2019

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A brief intellectual biography

Jan 28 2019

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MMT is wrong

Jan 25 2019

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Do free markets create urban sprawl?

Jan 24 2019

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Lincicome on the China shock

Jan 21 2019

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2% inflation changes everything

Jan 19 2019

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No exit?

Jan 17 2019

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Second thoughts on lead

Jan 16 2019

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What determines manufacturing jobs growth?

Jan 13 2019

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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

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

Jan 9 2019

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Please abolish the Fed's balance sheet

Jan 7 2019

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The future of money

Jan 6 2019

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It's getting harder to influence the Fed

Jan 3 2019

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Alternative Money University

Jan 2 2019