How Money Won Trump the White House
Contrary to media reports, Trump made significant contributions to his Presidential campaign.
Read more...Contrary to media reports, Trump made significant contributions to his Presidential campaign.
Read more...Not that it comes as a surprise, but talk of the US economy being in a boom is hype.
Read more...An important, accessible takedown of the loanable funds theory, on which a ton of bad policy rests.
Read more...Black shows how DSGE defenses fall apart, even as their backers lash out at critics.
Read more...The latest sighting on the student loan front is not pretty, and would be even uglier if the right metrics were used.
Read more...More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.
Read more...Puzzling over Japan’s super low unemployment with continued deflation.
Read more...A new paper by Jeff Hooke and Ken Yook of John Hopkins argues that “smoothed,” as in phony, private equity valuations are misleading.
Read more...Lambert here: “Natural” is indeed one of those words you should watch out for (like “we”). As in, for instance, “natural disaster.” And, of course, the Natural Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU). It’s often amusing to replace “natural” with “artificial”; generally there’s no loss of meaning, and often additional clarity is induced. By Edmund Phelps, the […]
Read more...Climate pacts like the Paris Accord do little because they focus on in-country greenhouse gas emissions, not ones based on consumption.
Read more...The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
Read more...Yet again, CalPERS is trying to use optics and dodgy reporting to cover up for real problems.
Read more...Questioning whether enforcement of clinical guidelines and evidence-based medicine produces better patient outcomes.
Read more...A skeptical look at a defense of stock market valuations.
Read more...The World Bank manages to make the IMF look good…..
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