…of which current lieutenant would move up, giving us the rather stultifying debate of “Schumer vs Durbin”. Or Clinton’s former senior colleague vs Obama’s former senior colleage. Or Chicago vs…

…and those who received them,” the article says, “they came to symbolize a candidate who never quite got their home state.” Clinton grew up in a suburb of Chicago, then…

…my best 1) silly view one — economics is about the use of scarce resources — in this case EU subsidies which will be reduced. This is a standard way…

…(including me) think that’s about when the profession took a wrong turn largely following Robert Lucas. But in the discussion until about yesterday, it was agreed that macroeconomics was in…

…to avoid lawsuits that could put them out of business. In 1998, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley sued gun makers and dealers saying “We are going to hit them where…

…municipalities—most prominently Chicago, but a few others as well—were enacting ordinances that altered state common law to permit civil liability solely against this industry when their product is used by…

…so thoroughly rigged the economics game. And the legal game. [Trust me on this.] We all know by now about Clinton’s claim, repeated on six occasions within a few days,…

…Capone died in prison and Chuck Manson will too, there was no need to carpet bomb Chicago or the California desert. ISIS are not world history’s worst monsters. On the…

…wrote the first edition, which appeared in 1978, and followed it with three more editions. Robert Aliber of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago took over…

I apologize for actual discussing economics and health care today, but this one I couldn’t let lie. The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business’s IGM Forum Mark Thoma) reports;…