The Grumpy Economist

Alex M. Azar, U.S. secretary of health and human services, published an interesting OpEd in the Washington Post , describing a clever health...

My colleague Steve Davis has a nice post quantifying economic uncertainty due to the trade war, and its emerging impact on investment. St...

Let's transfer more technology to China , writes Scott Sumner, with approving comments from Don Boudreaux . They're exactly right, s...

No, a currency board won't save the Lira, contra Steve Hanke's oped in the Wall Street Journal . Steve: Turkey should adopt a curr...

Three interesting links caught my attention today: 1)  Prefab housing in Berkeley  and Alex Tabarrok Commentary on Marginal Revolution . ...

Mary Anastasia O'Grady's WSJ coverage of Nafta talks included the following tidbit auto-sector “rules of origin,” which dictate h...

Homeowners. So says a nice WSJ op-ed by Rob Arnott and Lisa Meulbroek , and a proposal by Chicago Fed Economists Thomas Haasl, Rick Matton,...

The BEA just revised the personal saving rate, and doubled it. Source: Wall Street Journal To commenters bemoaning the low and decl...

A few pieces I read over the last few days juxtapose nicely on the state of America today. On Saturday, Orrin Hatch, writing in the Wall S...

The analogy between our looming trade war and August 1914, when events quickly spun out of control, led to this opinion essay at thehill.com...

A July 30 2018 Op-Ed in the  Wall Street Journal , titled "The tax and spend health care solution" Why is paying for health care...

Events move quickly in the Trump era. Since my last post , President Trump met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and an...

I am encouraged by the reported Senate reaction ( Politico ) to the latest salvo in the trade war, the agriculture department's announce...

Ben Leubsdorf at the WSJ does a great job of covering the discussion within economics over too-long papers, picky editing and refereeing, a...

Day 2 of the Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking focused on monetary policy. (My last post covered Day 1 on banking.) Bernanke Sadl...

I attended the Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking in May, hosted by the Swedish House of Finance and Stockholm School of Economics.   I...

Continuing the health care series, there does come a time in which innovative disruptors can break open a protected market and bring some co...

From the Wall Street Journal , a familiar story of medical pricing mischief: Michael Frank...had his left hip replaced in 2015. The Manhat...