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Over the past week, it's become clear that the real leverage the European authorities have over Greece is via the banking system. What d...

A friend writes: Let's suppose that the United States could get a Universal Basic Income, but it had to trade a bunch of stuff for it....

In comments to the previous post on fiscal policy, Steve Roth points to a  couple   posts  from his own (excellent) blog pointing to a simi...

Not exactly; you have to read between the lines a little. People are talking about this new thing from the IMF , reviving the 1930s-era ...

Brad DeLong, May 25 : WHAT ARE THE CORE COMPETENCES OF HIGH FINANCE?  The core competences of high finance are supposed to be (a) assess...

Blogging's been light here lately. Sorry. In the meantime, you should read this : if you combine net equity offerings—which, given the ...

Schumpeter says: Even if he confines himself to the most regular of commodity bills and looks with aversion on any paper that displays a s...

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...

One of the most dramatic features of the financial crisis, for those who were following it obsessively in the autumn of 2008, was the near-...

... or at least some interesting posts. 1. What Kind of Science Would Economics Be If It Really Were a Science? Peter Dorman is one of those...

In today's Times , Bank of America explains why there can't be any principal reductions for homeowners who aren't already in def...

Aldous Huxley says , "The abject patience of the oppressed is perhaps the most inexplicable, as it is also the most important, fact in...