This certainly isn’t the 1968 Dem Convention in Chicago; but, there were a lot of angry people in Nevada. “What I see is that the only thing holding those assh-les…

…with Krugman that we should go back there. Romer doesn’t just criticize today’s macroeconomics — he also criticizes the macroeconomics “of the early 70s”. Romer didn’t respond to Krugman’s thoughts…

…Washington Post and in its print edition yesterday, but also (apparently) by other newspapers. The link for it that I’m using is to the Chicago Tribune website. Presumably, it appeared…

…occasional trips to Chicago—insisted before the election, and apparently many still do, that no one who voted for Obama would vote for Trump, since everyone who would vote for Trump…

…the minimum wage presented at the recently-concluded economics meetings in Chicago, especially the first, an experimental study by John Horton of NYU. Horton set up an online matching system between…

Via…

…thought see Charles R. McCann Jr. and Vibha Kapuria-Foreman, “Robert Franklin Hoxie: The Contributions of a Neglected Chicago Economist” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 34B, 2016….

…year. The budget also contains 5% budget cuts for most state agencies and a 10% cut to college education, according to the Chicago Tribune. Democrats had fought Rauner for two…

…reports (minus Dallas, and adding the Chicago PMI) to give us a reasonable estimate of industrial production in the non-hurricane affected areas. Similarly, we can make use the regional breakdowns…

…true in urban areas with a lot of homicides where nobody wants to cooperate with the police. For example, through August of 2016, the clearance rate for homicides in Chicago…