The Grumpy Economist

A month ago,  I attended the SF Fed/Bank of Canada conference on fixed income. I had the chance to comment on Michael Bauer and Jim Hamilton...

Scott Sumner passes on a wise comment from his blog : ...the main problem in America is that the public, including its highly educated mem...

Nathaniel Popper at the New York Times Dealbook, writes " Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy " It...

Obamacare/ ACA was in the news last week. Some relevant summaries, and comment below. United Health pulling out of the Obamacare exchange...

John Taylor has an interesting blog post with a great title, " Staggering Neo-Fisherian Ideas and Staggered Contracts ." John goes...

The Wall Street Journal had a nice oped, " Hounded out of business by regulators " by Dan Epstein who was, well, hounded out of bu...

Noah Smith has an interesting  Bloomberg View piece on Japanese inflation . Three crucial paragraph struck me ... Japanese unemployment is...

I joined a large number of economists signing an open letter supporting funding for economic data. The letter is here , twitter #SaveTheData...

St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard gave a very interesting paper at the Cato monetary conference, with this great title. Jim starts ...

John Taylor's speech   on receiving the Truman medal for economic policy is noteworthy. John thinks about the institutions that govern ...

On Tuesday Nov 10 there will be a conference in Chicago on " The $13 Trillion Question: Managing the U.S. Government’s Debt " host...

The Hoover Press put up for free the chapters of Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays In Memory of Gary Becker, edited by Tom Church, ...

Steve Davis has a thoughtful speech on regulation, policy uncertainty, and above all the need for simplicity.  (On the policy uncertainty w...

An essay. It's an overview of what a growth-oriented policy program might look like. Regulation, finance, health, energy and environment...

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The Wall Street Journal Monday Oct 19 offers a reflection on deflation in Switzerland . "It’s as close to an economic consensus as ...

A new working paper by that title (pdf).  Some of the main ideas are in a longish post from last August . The fact that inflation is so...

Alex Tabarrok has a very nice and very short piece at the Atlantic,  The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely . (HT Marginal Revolutio...

Ed Lazear has a nice WSJ oped, " How not to prevent the next financial meltdown ." (Also available here via Hoover .) The main poi...

I talked a bit to Binyamin Applebaum about his article in the New York Times,  Behaviorists Show the U.S. How to Improve Government Operat...