…in this respect that below 2.0 percent inflation rates were largely a post-Great Recession story. Prior to the Great Recession, inflation generally ran somewhat about 2.0 percent. Inflation, as measured…

…find work. Meanwhile, law-school applications are surging—an ominous echo of when young people used graduate school to bunker down during the great financial crisis. What’s going on? I see three…

…centered around great research universities. And ambitious international students, sometimes bringing new perspectives, are part of what keeps these research universities great. Last but not least, international students often get…

…perspective. Decline and Fall of the American Empire Paul Krugman Alliances were what made us great. Last Saturday I posted a conversation with the military historian Phillips O’Brien, much of which was…

…powers, except insofar as it discusses the executive branch’s powers in great detail. Yoo’s quotation of “proceedings of any greater number” might read as if it were referring to Congress,…

…registered Republicans had a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the Supreme Court. Today, that figure stands at 35%. (Only 9% of Democrats “had a great deal…

…and deregulation – the end game of three decades of this supply-side approach – led to the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Significantly, the major deregulations of big…

…up meetings between President Lyndon Johnson and GOP Senate leader Everett Dirksen. “I told him that every great crisis in our history has been solved by presidential leadership or not…

In the Comments thread yesterday to my Uwe-Reinhardt-For-Labor-Secretary post, an old fellow “Frayster” (definition: Someone who posted regularly to Slate’s wonderful, late, great “Fray” comments board), Woolley, wrote: I don’t…

…1) Recessions, depressions and crises are the result of the unhampered market. 2) The Great Depression was caused by uncontrolled markets. 3) Recessions, depressions and crises are practically the result…