Weisbach advice

I got a chance to see the page proofs of Michael Weisbach's upcoming book, " The Economists' Craft. "  This leapt out at m...

The price of indulgences, 2021

  Source. My correspondent provides the answer:  5bps: IVV (column #3) (iShares Core S&P 500 ETF) 15bps: ESGU (column #1)  (iShares ...

Cruz on crony capitalism

Senator Ted Cruz wrote a blistering Wall Street Journal Op-Ed decrying CEOs who pander to Democrats by making profoundly uninformed public ...

Infrastructure and jobs

William Gropper, Construction of the Dam, 1938 To many on the left, it's always 1933. Building "roads and bridges" will "...

Inflation and expectations at NRO

Essay at  National Review Online.   Inflation: The Ingredients Are in the Pot, and the Fire Is On. (But will it boil?)  John H. Cochrane and...

Vaccines and liability

I learned something from the New York Times lead editorial on Sunday. Why are we not shipping mega quantities of vaccines to countries like...

Summers at FT

Martin Wolf's FT interview with Larry Summers is a great read. It would be a great read for its articulate numeracy if Larry were a Rep...

More inequality

Paul Graham adds interesting thoughts on inequality, looking at the Forbes 100. Maybe we don't have enough inequality, and maybe the r...

Inequality mirage?

David Splinter and Gerald Auten gave last week's Hoover Economic Policy Working Group seminar, summarizing their past and some work in p...

Nuclear power and growth

Jason Crawford's "Roots of Progress" blog on what happened to nuclear power is an important read for many reasons, among them...

Inflation expectations

This post follow's last week's post on inflation levels prompted by the big March increases in CPI and PPI, and the CEA  tweetstorm ...

Inflation levels

 March inflation is up. The CEA delivered a historic tweetstorm . It starts with  temporary factors: base effects, supply chain disruptions,...

Conversations: covid and (separately) nonprofits

 I did a few fun video conversations last week.  This is a conversation with Ryan Bourne, Megan McArdle, and Alex Tabarrok on economics an...

Ip on Bidenomics

Greg Ip has a great column in the WSJ on Bidenomics.   It's not long, it's so well written that it's hard to condense the good p...

A letter to Yellen

Secretary of the Treasury, and ex Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently hosted an important meeting of the Financial Stability Oversig...