April 2021

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 ...

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

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...

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

Friday, April 23, 2021 Commentary Economists

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...

Thursday, April 22, 2021 Commentary Inequality

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

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

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Commentary Energy Environment

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

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 ...

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 inflation monetary policy

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

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

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...

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

"San Francisco bans affordable housing," is the spot-on conclusion of a lovely post by Vadim Graboys (link to twitter). The pos...