Posted by Unknown | 8:26 PM

One common racist characterization of East Asians is that they are hive creatures, working and thinking collectively like bees or ants, lack...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:11 AM

In your journey through the Econ Blogosphere, you will be beset by a great many curious and interesting species of EconoTroll. At first you ...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:29 PM

I like Simon Wren-Lewis a lot, not just because he has a beard, but because he's one of the few people still talking about macroeconomic...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:49 AM

The Atlantic has a big story on the impending Japanese crash ; one of the authors is the brilliant Simon Johnson. Excerpts: About half of th...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:24 PM

My new Atlantic piece is out, entitled "The End of Global Warming: How to Save the Earth in 2 Easy Steps". I kind of disagree wi...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:08 PM

At Forbes , Tim Worstall attempts a critique (or, in blog parlance, a smackdown) of my last post , on one-way free trade. I want to thank T...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:40 AM

Trade policy is the Third Rail of Economics, because economists tell ourselves that free trade is the one thing all reasonable economists ca...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:21 AM

New Update : The pessimism in this post has been proven (somewhat) wrong. Bernanke just announced that the Fed will buy $40B of mortgage-bac...

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