Must-Read: Dani Rodrik: Brexit and the Globalization Trilemma
Must-Read: Time to fly my Neoliberal Freak Flag again! I see this very differently than the extremely-sharp leader of the Seventh Social-Democratic International Dani Rodrik does. The Greek and the...
View ArticleMust-Read: Larry Summers: Fed’s Current Strategy Ill Adapted to the Realities
Must-Read: Larry Summers is right. If the Phillips Curve today still had the short-run slope in the gearing of expected inflation to recent past inflation that it appeared to have at the start of the...
View ArticleMust-Read: FOMC: Press Release–June 15, 2016
Must-Read: Somebody really should have dissented from this press release: if 0.5% is the forecast of the appropriate Fed Funds rate in 2018, zero is the appropriate Fed Funds rate now. But who? Charlie...
View ArticleMust-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe,...
Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe, and Japan to run bigger deficits: “The international financial community wants to lend money this cheaply… … [so] governments...
View ArticleMust-Read: Martin Wolf: David Cameron, the Ex-Prime Minister, Took a Huge...
Must-Read: The very sharp Martin Wolf sees structural recession in Britain’s near future. People minimizing risk are going to leave Britain. People who would otherwise locate in Britain and are...
View ArticleMust-Read: Paul Krugman: Brexit: The Morning After
Must-Read: I disagree with Paul Krugman: not “Brexit just brings to a head an abscess that would have burst fairly soon in any case…” but rather: Brexit evolves antibiotic-resistant bacteria and brings...
View ArticleIn Which I Call for Academic Scribblers and Funct Economists to Enter into...
Must-Read: From my perspective, this piece at Vox.eu makes many too many bows to conventional-wisdom idols with not just feet but bodies and heads of clay. Thus I cannot sign on to it. Eleven...
View ArticleMust-Read: Paul Krugman: Against Eurotimidity
Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Against Eurotimidity: “The authors really are the best and brightest…. So I’d really like to say nice things… …Unfortunately… is this really all they can offer? I understand...
View ArticleMust-Read: Danny Yagan: Enduring Employment Losses from the Great Recession?:...
Must-Read: Danny Yagan: Enduring Employment Losses from the Great Recession?: Longitudinal Worker-Level Evidence: “The severity of the Great Recession varied across U.S. local areas… …Comparing two...
View ArticleMust-Read: Timothy B. Lee: Brexit Isn’t the Most Serious Threat to the EU —...
Must-Read: Timothy B. Lee: Brexit Isn’t the Most Serious Threat to the EU — the Euro Is: “David Beckworth makes the case that the economic woes of eurozone countries like Spain and Greece… …can...
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