Finance has always been more profitable
Evan Soltas recently turned heads with a claim that the finance sector takes home half of all business profits in the United States. It tur...
Why liberals shouldn't turn against immigration
Django Unchained: A white revenge fantasy
I don't intend to branch out into movie reviews, but Django Unchained struck me as a pretty politically important film, so I wanted to...
Intelligence boosts for everyone!
One time a guy accused me of "wanting to always be the smartest guy in the room". I replied: "Apparently you haven't seen...
New Atlantic column: Capitalism and the end of growth
New column up at the Atlantic , on whether or not capitalism requires infinite resource exploitation : When we bump up against our planet...
Is the business cycle a cycle?
David Graeber: Debt is bad, or something...?
In the blogosphere, David Graeber is known as a sort-of-leftish guy with a tendency to fight with other people on the left (he has called Sl...
The corporate cash puzzle
Paul Krugman raises a puzzle : [C]orporations are taking a much bigger slice of total income — and are showing little inclination either to ...
The Koizumi years: A macroeconomic puzzle
In defense of the EMH
The "Efficient Markets Hypothesis" is a popular target of anger and derision among lay critics of the econ profession . How can fi...
