The Grumpy Economist

The Richmond Fed published a long interview with me in their Econ Focus, shorter pdf (print) version here  and longer web version here . Som...

Paul Krugman is now reduced to making fun of my name . I was alerted to the fact that we were living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics when...

Tidbits that came in following my WSJ oped last week 1. I heard from a lot of people in the burgeoning market for cash only transparent se...

Wall Street Journal Oped December 26 2013. The unraveling of the Affordable Care Act presents a historic opportunity for change. Its propo...

To avoid writing silly articles, as appeared in the Sunday New York Times under the title " Triumph of the English Major ." Gerald...

" Can this Man Save Health care ?" is another nice article about Dr. Keith Smith, founder of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma (SCO) ...

Steve Williamson has an insightful set of posts,  Minneapolis Redux , and Journalists Looking for a Fight . They are tangentially on the Min...

I've been following with interest the rumblings of economists playing with an amazing idea -- what if we have the sign wrong on monetar...

It was my great pleasure -- and honor -- to attend this year's Nobel prize ceremonies. It started with the Nobel prize lectures, whi...

Foreign Affairs has a very nice article " Why Banking Systems Succeed -- And Fail: The Politics Behind Financial Institutions " by...

Source: Weekly Standard I found a nice Obamacare essay by Chris Demuth, " The Silence of the Liberals: Obamacare is Inimical to The...

Spanish translation of my blog post on Lars Hansen's Nobel Prize El premio Nobel de Lars Hansen (traducción al español de Pedro Cerv...

Shawn Tully at Fortune wrote a very thoughtful piece describing Gene Fama's research and views on efficient markets. The version I saw...

Health care policy debates seem to have become a war of anecdotes. Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker posted one titled " My canceled po...

Pedro Cervera kindly translated my short piece on Gene Fama's Nobel prize , which will appear in "Estrategia Financiera" next ...

PS: I will be talking about alternatives to Obamacare on Wed Dec 4 at the Cato Policy Perspectives event in Chicago.

I gave a talk at Hoover, encouraging those of us who are less than fans to speak up and outline the alternative to Obamacare. Podcast here. ...

Philadelphia Fed president Charles Plosser gave a noteworthy speech, " A limited central bank. " It's especially noteworthy in...

While fiddling with a recent paper, " The New-Keynesian Liquidity Trap " ( blog post ), a simple insight dawned on me on the utter...

This is a link to the "Work Behind the Prize" event from Monday Nov 4. Our charge was, explain to the community of scholars at t...