The Grumpy Economist

An essay at The Hill on what to make of market volatility: What’s causing the big drop in the stock market, and the bout of enormous volat...

Scott Sumner has a terrific post on teaching economics . (HT Marginal Revolution) The core ideas of economics are extremely counterintuiti...

Christopher Rufo at the New York Post has an interesting article on homeless problems in Seattle. The analysis rings true of many other are...

A  WSJ oped  with J J Plecs, formerly of  Roam Analytics , which does a lot of health related data work. This is the full oped now that 30 d...

Over the last few weeks we have had a series of discussions at Hoover on the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis and recession. Th...

Corey Garriott, Sophie Lefebvre, Guillaume Nolin, Francisco Rivadeneyra and Adrian Walton at the Bank of Canada have issued a thoughtful and...

Tyler Cowen has a very interesting Bloomberg column on Brexit . Essentially, he views the UK getting this right -- which I agree it does not...

Friday at Hoover we will have a series of events reexamining the lessons of the financial crisis and recession. (There is a public event her...

Tim Taylor, also reviewing Summers on China , makes a few excellent points. Growth comes from within. Trade is not conquest. The formula...

(Continues from my last post on China trade ) Larry Summers has a good  Financial Times oped  on the same subject, titled "Washingto...

I wrote a little commentary on trade for The Hill, which they titled " The US should give China Flowers not Tariffs ." Chocolates ...

I went to the Financing of Innovation summit at Stanford GSB last Thursday. (Sorry, I can't seem to find a full program online.) Here i...

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...