The Grumpy Economist

 David Leonhardt's pean to investment in the Sunday NY Times Magazine starts well: A cross-country trip today typically takes more time ...

If you have not been paying attention, our government has decided that all electric vehicles are the solution to the climate problem. At lea...

James Freeman's always excellent "best of the web" WSJ column today  covers a Manhattan Institute report by Mark Mills  itself...

One ray of hope in the current political scene comes from the land of deep blue.  However one views the immense expenditure on solar panels,...

The Biden Administration is proposing major changes to cost-benefit analysis used in all regulations. The preamble here , and the full tex...

Policy Tensor on the consequences of a Russian nuke ( HT Marginal Revolution ) was very interesting:  Consider the least escalatory option,...

I wrote a review of Stuart Kirk's climate finance speech , which among other things criticized the Dutch Central Bank for putting finger...

  T.J Rodgers in the Wall Street Journal is classic:  Solar panels are key to the transition to carbon-free energy. Since the Earth will be...

Stuart Kirk of HSBC (head of worldwide responsible investing!) gave an eloquent short speech on climate financial risk.   Youtube link  in c...

An oped at Project Syndicate Inflation’s return marks a tipping point. Demand has hit the brick wall of supply. Our economies are now produ...

Three additional thoughts on climate financial regulation, building on the last post about the SEC   1) A big question about SEC and relate...

From March 21 SEC press release , covering the 510 page proposed rule  on climate disclosures. (The colleague who pointed me to this descri...

Just as I hit publish on my last post , the Wall Street Journal publishes a much better essay  by Ted Nordhaus on the impossibility of buil...

The US, and New York State in particular, are embarked on a decarbonization agenda. Canada has a lot of hydropower to spare, which emits no ...

A Project Syndicate Essay. Before it moves on to climate change, inequality, and racial issues, the Fed should have to think just a little ...

I salute President Biden's nominations for the Federal Reserve Board, especially Sarah Bloom Raskin and Lisa Cook. (Philip Jefferson see...

A Convenient Myth : Climate risk and the financial system. At National Review Online.  In an October 21 press release , Janet Yellen — Treas...

From Federal Reserve Bank of New York,   How Bad Are Weather Disasters for Banks? Kristian S. Blickle, Sarah N. Hamerling, and Donald P. Mor...

The Revenge of Supply , at Project Syndicate Surging inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, production bottlenecks, shortages, plumbers who ...

An essay on climate economics at  National Review .  *** Climate policy is ultimately an economic question. How much does climate change hur...