Economics Roundtable
-- Recession? --
Are back-to-back quarters of 0.6% GDP growth a recession? The blogs weigh in at Recession?
Will a 2% Fed Funds rate help? Fed Watch
-- Economic Principals --
David Warsh reports the latest on this year's free agent season for academic economists.
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137 Commentators
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137 commentators.
Outside the Beltway
The latest report issued by the Medicare Trustees is not good.
The HI annual cost rate is projected to increase from 3.11 percent of taxable payroll in 2007 to 11.40 percent in 2082—8.02 percent of taxable payroll more than the projected income rate for 2082. Expressed in relation to the ...
In my Indiana-North Carolina postmortem, I noted my hatred for the term “working class” because “it implies that those putting in 60 hours a week at high paying jobs don’t work.”
Recently promoted full professor Dan Drezner, who ...
Bloomberg’s Catherine Dodge wins line of the day honors for her lede, “Never before have two presidential campaigns staked so much on 18.4 cents.”
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are closing out their marathon campaigning in Indiana and ...
Over the last couple of days, Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Ross Douthat, Daniel Larison, and Megan McArdle have confessed ...
Americans will soon be paying $5 a gallon for gasoline, at least if a survey of people who haven’t the foggiest idea of how the petroleum market works is any indication.
Americans are already paying through the nose ...
Thomas Friedman laments that said state of America’s transportation infrastructure.
A few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Singapore. In J.F.K.’s waiting lounge we could barely find a place to sit. Eighteen hours later, ...
The Pentagon is backing a massive development project financed by Marriott and others to gentrify Baghdad.
Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, a shopping center and ...
Los Angeles County has strengthened its law against taco trucks and other mobile food vendors at the insistence of brick-and-mortar restaurant owners, Jonathan Gold reports.
Last week, led by Gloria Molina, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors passed a law ...
New York is trying to collect taxes from online retailers who ship goods to the state, even if they have no brick-and-mortar presence. Amazon is suing, claiming the law is unconstitutional.
Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York ...