The Grumpy Economist

Today another little note that I discovered while teaching. Warning: this will only be of any interest at all to time-series finance aca...

Warning: this will only be interesting to academic finance people. One of the fun things about teaching is that it forces me to look back...

The latest profession to be displaced by technology: Liberal pundit.  Bubble Busters Bubble Busters™ the App is a one-of-a-kind toolbox...

The latest NBER Reporter has the speech Larry Summers gave at the annual NBER "summer camp" for economists. As you would expect, ...

A health policy discussion with Booth colleagues Matthew Gentzkow and Matthew Notowidigdo. The original is here at the Booth / Capital ...

I've stayed out of the inequality - minimum wage business, largely because it strikes me as mostly political posturing rather than serio...

Torsten Slok of Deutsche Bank Research, showed me a slide deck he prepared for evaluating the US economy. Here are a few fascinating graphs....

I found an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on Alternative Lenders  to small businesses.  Some highlights with comments. Wit...

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...