The Slack Wire

[I am transitioning my blog over to my new site , but for now I will continue to crosspost stuff here.] Everyone is talking about this ne...

There’s been some discussion recently of the new estimates from Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the distribution of household wealth in...

This was an early topic  at the Slack Wire, but worth revisiting. There's this widespread idea that the rich today are no different fr...

" Storm surge barriers , the huge sea gates that some scientists say would be the best protection against floods, could cost as much as...

Don't you love the  Romney video ? I'm not going to deny it, right now I am with Team Dem. It's true, we usually say "the b...

... because I want to vote for this guy : François Hollande, the leading challenger for the French presidency, has described the banking...

Does anybody else remember  that Kurt Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron" ? (It's an early one; he reused the conceit, I think,...

When he's right, he's right : everything we’re seeing makes sense if you think of the Right as representing the interests of renti...

I'm generally a big fan of Rick Bookstaber . His posts have a depth and originality that's rare among economics blogs. But he goes s...

Well, from us, of course. All their dollars represent, is claims on our labor. Still, it's interesting to ask what forms those claims ta...