The Grumpy Economist

Source:David Brady and Mo Fiorina My Hoover colleagues David Brady and Mo Fiorina gave a recent talk updating some of their work on poll...

Capital, more capital. I did a video interview for the Chicago Booth Review , summarizing a few talks I'm giving this fall. At some p...

On Wed Nov 28 I will be giving a talk at the ASU Forecast Luncheon in Phoenix. Blog readers will likely be bored, as I'm going to unapo...

A WSJ oped with J J Plecs, formerly of Roam Analytics , which does a lot of health related data work. The discovery that cigarettes cause ...

A post on Marginal Revolution is so good, I have to quote in its entirety before commenting. From my time in both the military and health...

Source: Seattle Times " The carbon tax is dead; long live the carbon tax " is the headline of Tyler Cowen's Bloomberg colu...

My visit to Europe resulted in many interesting conversations. There was a stark contrast between the complex regulatory vision of formal pr...

I'm at a conference on " Financial cycles and regulation " at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Beyond the individual papers, I find th...

In preparing some talks on the financial crisis, 10 years later, I ran across a very nice article,  The Big Con -- Reassessing the "Gre...

I found a beautiful, clear, detailed, fact-based, and devastating explanation of how forced cross-subsidies, monopolized markets, and lack o...

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...