Long and short of bubbles -- Grumpy podcast with Owen Lamont

The long and short of bubbles. A conversation with Owen Lamont on Gamestop and other matters. See my   last post for background and great p...

Gamestop. 1999 déjà vu all over again?

In case you haven't noticed, Gamestop and a few similar stocks are in a classic bubble. At least it was at 8 AM pacific when I read the ...

Jay Bhattacharya on good fellows; tests vaccines and more

Podcast: Link in case the above embeds don't work.  Stanford Doctor and Professor  Jay Bhattacharya joins the GoodFellows for an engagi...

Open smart, redux

Open smart, I and other economists argued back in March. Don't just shut lock down the whole economy willy-nilly. An auto-body paint sho...

Libertarian pandemic

 " Libertarians in a pandemic " is a good essay by Jacob Grier expanding on many themes I've written about here, whether marke...

Grumpy economist podcast: free market tests, vaccines and more

The Grumpy Economist podcast is back, and we're going to aim for a once per two week schedule. This week we talk about vaccines, tests, ...

Portfolios for long-term investors

Portfolios for long-term investors is an essay that extends a keynote talk I will give Thursday Jan 21 at the NBER "New Developments i...

Sanity in CA housing?

As reported by the Sacramento Bee , its city council voted unanimously to allow four-plexes across the city overturning one-house-per lot zo...

Minimum wages. People are not all the same.

The ancient argument over the minimum wage  (WSJ) is heating up, another of economics' many perennial answers in search of a question.  ...

Vaccines at NR

I repackaged and rethought some of my earlier thoughts on vaccine allocation and markets vs. government for National Review here . Text here...

Low Interest Rates and Government Debt

This is a talk I gave for IGIER at Bocconi (zoom, sadly) Jan 11 2021. Olivier Blanchard also gave a talk and a good discussion followed. Ye...

FDA vs. Astra-Zeneca; bureaucracy vs. evolution and exponential growth

 From Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution , quoting Marty Makary, M.D., a professor of surgery and health policy at the Johns Hopkins Unive...

Nothing matters but reproduction rate R

The new strain and the need for speed  by Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution makes an excellent point. The new strain is more transmissibl...