John Oliver on The National Debt
The national debt has long been portrayed as a burden we’re placing on future generations. John Oliver discusses how national…
Congress Steadily Degenerating
I doubt this will surprise anybody, aside from those who might have hoped that Dems retaking formal control of both…
Two types of recovery from the COVID recession, or how you cannot effectively fight plutocratic populism by returning to the recent past.
I don’t normally talk about forecasts, but last week’s IMF World Economic Outlook illustrates a point a number of…
The cat is progressively getting out of the bag – Part 1
Remember on February 3, 2021, when the RBA governor Philip Lowe spoke at the National Press Club in Australia and…
John Oliver on The National Debt
The national debt has long been portrayed as a burden we’re placing on future generations. John Oliver discusses how national…
Bartlett on Robert Mundell & Supply-Side Economics
Remembering the Father of Supply-Side Economics Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the…
East Asian Miracles: Intro Video :: Econ 135 :: History of Economic Growth: 5.5.1.
East Asian Miracles: Intro Video Econ 135 :: History of Economic Growth: 5.5.1. https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-135-5.5.1-intro-video-east-asian-miracles.pptx https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0-9SzNAsadTQvyyG-YtYPiOfA https://youtu.be/W1-cZ6pANzM 2021-04-11 Go to Source…
Of Battenbergs, Brexit, and Brogues
So, Philip Mountbatten, born Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbutg-Glucksburg, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, and many other titles, died…
“…other enjoyments, of a purer, more lasting, and more exquisite nature.”
A defense of Weber’s Protestant Ethic thesis from the 1940s by Ephraim Fischoff makes the plausible argument that critics — and…