So Passeth the Jewish Golden Age

Posted by | 4:54 PM
I you have 10 minutes to spare, I recommend watching this mini-documentary by Max Blumenthal, in which he visits the Christians United for ...

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Posted by | 7:21 AM
Writing in American Prospect magazine, Dana Goldstein analyzes the identity politics of the Harry Potter books . According to her, " J....

My Take on the Dems

Posted by | 6:59 PM
But first, the coolest article of the day: Men who marry smart women are happier . (Of course, there's an endogeneity bias there; smart ...

Bye bye oil!

Posted by | 9:24 AM
Just thought I'd flag this post at The Oil Drum . For the past two years, the National Petroleum Council (big American oil companies) ha...

China economy prediction, Version 2.0

Posted by | 6:30 PM
Well, a few posts ago (which, sadly, was more than a few weeks ago), I rounded up some predictions about the future of China's economy. ...

Back! Plus: William Kristol smokes a fat sack of meth

Posted by | 10:13 PM
All apologies to devoted readers of Noahpinion...hey, where did everybody go? Yes, I'm back from a few weeks of very relaxing vacation, ...

TPMCafe rocks my world

Posted by | 10:33 AM
I'm on vacation in California, so the posts will come less frequently... Anyone interested in international relations, China, or the fut...

China prognostications

Posted by | 4:19 PM
Via Marginal Revolution, we find that Nobel Prize-winning economic historian Robert Fogel is almost eye-poppingly bullish on China : In 2040...

Dragonomics

Posted by | 10:30 AM
Be careful what you wish for, Arthur Kroeber writes in the Washington Post. Successfully forcing China to drop its yuan peg would have unint...

Corporate Taxation

Posted by | 9:05 AM
Interesting blog post by Jason Furman at The Economist's blog Free Exchange. He defends the idea of taxing income at the business level ...

Quick thoughts

Posted by | 11:50 AM
1. Tyler Cowen writes in the NYT about America's high number of young entrepreneurs . The reason? "[T]hese successes," Cowen ...

Rationality on regulation

Posted by | 12:37 PM
When we hear the word "regulation," economists tend to panic (shh, don't tell anyone I just called myself an "economist...