Avent v. Krugman on China trade policy

Posted by | 9:30 AM
Epic blog war between Ryan Avent of The Economist and Paul Krugman of the New York Times ! First Krugman wrote this column urging the U.S....

China's new 'tude

Posted by | 4:26 AM
John Pomfret, a veteran China hand, reports : China's government has embraced an increasingly anti-Western tone in recent months and is ...

Should we tweak the Dragon's tail?

Posted by | 6:51 AM
Questions about China's currency all come down to whether or not the U.S. should put pressure on China to appreciate the yuan. As the U....

Robert Lucas and the Cargo Cult that is modern macroeconomics

Posted by | 12:25 PM
I'm going to rearrange a DeLong blog post and add some Feynman. Robert Lucas, founder of modern macroeconomics, and chief proponent of ...

A functioning political system is a necessity for a strong economy

Posted by | 7:19 AM
Want to understand why government debt is bad? Read Paul Krugman's awesome blog post : [I]f...interest rates are at...zero...why should ...

Trains and liberty

Posted by | 8:41 AM
Here's Matt Yglesias being chock full of good points about transit policy : [T]he conservative discourse about mass transit simply illus...

The Temporary Decline and Non-Fall of the American Non-Empire

Posted by | 2:23 PM
Niall Ferguson is at it again , predicting the "downfall of the American empire": Niall Ferguson is candidly calling time on the A...

The brown people win (and you win, too)

Posted by | 7:31 AM
I remember, a few years back, driving through LA and listening to Michael Savage on the radio. He was declaring angrily that "the black...

Paul Otellini on Industrial Policy

Posted by | 12:43 AM
Intel CEO Paul Otellini : Other countries have focused on investing in innovation, creating national policies to build digital infrastructur...

Martin Wolf on China's exchange rate policy

Posted by | 6:23 PM
Martin Wolf : [China's] policy of keeping the exchange rate down is equivalent to an export subsidy and tariff, at a uniform rate – in o...

Epic Beard Man, race, violence, and American culture

Posted by | 8:16 AM
" Epic Beard Man ," the video that shows an old white guy delivering a beatdown to a black guy on an Oakland city bus, has quickly...

The continuing story of the 800-pound gorilla

Posted by | 7:39 AM
Apparently some among the Chinese leadership thought that once their country was the most powerful on Earth, all other countries would do wh...