…likely would be accompanied by some economic stress, though the macroeconomic implications need not be substantial. This was a fairly upbeat assessment of the state of the US economy, I…

…president and a leader of the Democratic Party talking about the economic stimulus package. The president said, “Look, our economy’s been hit hard on 9/11. We need to do something…

…fall. Lower spending means an economic slowdown. And of course, an economic slowdown means that jobs are lost, not gained. The most likely outcome is a mix of these three,…

…fake “we care about economic responsibility” policy initiative. Freedom does NOT reside in allowing brute force economic might to set the rules. Freedom is having government institutions that work and…

…here is tongue-in-cheek. But I find it very useful in thinking about everything else. This thinking clashes quite definitively with traditional economic teachings. But it conforms very nicely with economic…

Traffic jam in Beijing, China. Simon Wren-Lewis writes about the difference between how the neofiscalists and market monetarists view the solution to the world’s economic woes. Basically, neofiscalists are ready…

…couldn’t pay their debts. With lower real interest rates and better economic performance, they can pay their debts. So the grip of the I.M.F. has been loosened by economic improvements….

…influence of Joan Robinson today is on Post Keynesian economics, or post-Keynesian economics, with her preferring this latter spelling, the British version. Indeed, although I cannot prove it, I have…

…larger and more economically powerful these companies get, the more resources they can bring to bear on lobbying government to change the rules to benefit exactly the companies that are…

Today Donald Trump gave a speech in Detroit describing some economic policies he’d like to pursue if he became president, and like with his other periodic “policy” speeches, he sounded…