…as the Katrina disaster was not as bad as the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco: The official death-toll in San Francisco in 1906 was 478. But a century of research…

…in financial economics over the past half century “junk science”. After all, the lessons from modern financial economics do not quite square with supporting Bush’s proposal to kill Social Security….

…Club for Growth crowd rarely presents a complete or coherent even though Solow’s model is now half a century old. The key change suggested by the Social Security Trustee’s model,…

…have been incessantly advocating for a quarter century. If the left is willing to make it, the moral case for being liberal is strong. Being liberal means having compassion for…

…depreciation of the dollar over the past quarter century was the roughly 50% fall in the dollar between early 1985 and late 1987. That dollar depreciation was intentional – all…

…rate in a quarter century and the cleanest environment in a quarter century. America is a strong force for peace from Northern Ireland, to Bosnia, to the Middle East. AB…

…century was not unusual, but fell within the range experienced during the past 1,000 years…The available scientific evidence does not support the claim that the climate of the 20th century…

…third of the 20th century. The implicit reasoning seems to be along the lines of if something is constitutionally questionable but it dates back to the American Revolution or thereabouts,…

…twin roles. As Bernanke noted last month in reviewing the first century of the Fed, “The complementarities among regulatory and supervisory policies…lender-of-last resort policy, and standard monetary policy are increasingly…

…When writing about Amy two years ago I quoted the late 19th century writer Walter Pater: “We are all under sentence of death . . . we have an interval,…