The Grumpy Economist

The discussion over health policy rages over who will pay -- private insurance, companies, "single payer," Obamacare, VA, Medicare...

Argentina should dollarize, says Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the Wall Street Journal  -- not a peg, not a currency board, not an IMF plan,...

A narrow bank would be a great thing. A narrow bank takes deposits, and invests 100% of the money in interest-paying reserves at the Fed. (T...

“As fires rage up and down the state of California, costing our taxpayers billions of dollars and threatening our families’ health—- the ne...

A Wall Street Journal Oped, From July 29 2018. Now that 30 days have passed, I can post the whole thing. The Tax-and-Spend Health-Care So...

Post-apocalyptic life in American health care is a fantastic blog post on the state of American health care and insurance. (HT Marginal Rev...

Link here.   In case you don't get it, see previous posts on buybacks here  and here , that explain how buybacks do not affect sha...

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...