…trade is a bad policy, because technology will solve anything soon. In fact, if “clean coal” is not a contradiction in terms, the case for cap and trade (or a…

…would follow current trade agreements—which the more aware economists later noted was basically an indication that we will support “free trade” only if the other guy does. (Sorry, China.) So…

…RI was once the epicenter of the North American African slave trade. This surprising (to me) news provoked me to read “American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in…

Reader Matthew McOsker writes: What Bush II and Clinton Got Wrong On The Economy First, we start off with sectorial balances. Trade deficits must be offset by government and/or private…

…about trade balances, focusing on the trade surplus of Germany. She writes… “Trade moralists are fundamentally illogical and dangerously plausible. The idea of exporting your way to recovery is seductive….

…do about health care. Both of them initially, or at least at some point, signed on to the “Medicare-for-all” label for a single payer government run health insurance system that…

…of whether hydroxychloroquine should be prescribed off label based on the in vitro results is not the same as the question of should we be confident that it will work…

Labeling for Increased Profits, Farmer and Economist, Michael Smith It is a well-known marketing ploy to label, relabel, and even mislabel a product again and again to increase sales. We…

…which people can Google that wants us to pay $350 to be able to put their label on our packaging. But nobody knows who the hell they are, and this…

…models of this sort by the late Richard Goodwin, who had a Marx-influenced predatory model of class struggle cyclical fluctuations. Their early models were labeled as Kynes-Wicksell-Goodwin (KWG) models. But…