] is a great writer. I have read many of his articles, spent time on his website and gone back into his literary vaults. He wrote posts in the 1980’s [ … ]

Tomorrow’s lecture is, in part, covering a homework on the Great Depression in which the students were asked to redo some of a classic Bernanke and James article on the [ … ]

photo credit: Bigstock The contempt in which we hold most of our politicians, while largely justified, is also dangerous. Politics seems increasingly to be the means by which people who [ … ]

Several correspondents were kind enough to send me additional work on covered interest parity. There are two big questions (and a third at the end): 1) what force pushes prices [ … ]

The February Issue of the Journal of Finance made it to the top of my stack, and it has a lot of good articles. The first two especially caught my [ … ]

Eight years ago President Obama was asked about AIG bonuses. Q    – you received $100,000 from AIG during the campaign.  How do you feel about those contributions today?  Do you plan [ … ]

Paul Krugman presents “Robot Geometry” based on Ryan Avent‘s “Productivity Paradox”. It’s more-or-less the skill-biased technological change hypothesis, repackaged. Technology makes workers more productive, which reduces demand for workers, as their [ … ]

Paul Krugman presents “Robot Geometry” based on Ryan Avent‘s “Productivity Paradox”. It’s more-or-less the skill-biased technological change hypothesis, repackaged. Technology makes workers more productive, which reduces demand for workers, as their [ … ]

Wheel of Fortune contestant was spotted all these letters and still got it wrong

This post will be the last of three that explains the con man context to Uber. In the last few days the President resigned, Uber is unwinding, Rather than continue to [ … ]