…Argentina and Russia. What can policymakers do to offset the declines? Kristin J. Forbes and Michael W. Klein have examined the policy options available to governments that face crises due…

…not a new problem, and policymakers in Washington have long sounded the alarm. Michael Barr — an assistant secretary of the Treasury under President Obama and law professor at University…

…Michael Kent Curtis explained in a 2012 law review article, many segregationists justified racial bigotry on the very same grounds that religious conservatives now hope to justify anti-gay animus. In…

…have a large degree of influence over their economy’s response to capita flows. But are “virtuous” policies always rewarded? Joshua Aizenman of the University of Southern California, Michael Hutchison of…

…blog. Commentary on the McCutcheon decision comes from Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, Garrett Epps of The Atlantic, Beverly Mann at Angry Bear (here and here), and Michael Bobelian of Forbes….

…be muted unless labor share also increased. Thus, the bottom line in any solution to Secular Stagnation involves an increase in labor share. One final note, as Michael Pettis has…

…full employment. Yet, what is behind low inflation? I refer to the work of Michael Pettis who is a professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University…

World Trade weakens in Early 2014, Wall Street Journal: Weakening world trade is something to watch according to Michael Pettis. “… redistributing income downwards is easier said than done in…

…of dying of Alzheimer’s? (See Michael Kinsley’s essay in the New Yorker.) On Bloomberg View Matthew C. Klein has put together a booklet of “visual data” titled: “How Americans Die.”…

…Michael Olenick remarked via e-mail: This reads like a Dickens novel. Her retirement savings, in her mid 50′s, were less than $10K but she tapped 1/4th of that. She had…