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Noah's note: This is a guest post by Zachary David, an HFT practitioner. You can follow him on Twitter here . My view of HFT is not qu...

OK, I promised a review of Michael Lewis'  Flash Boys , and here it is. Flash Boys is an excellent book. It's fun and readable...

In his new book , Thomas Piketty argues that R, the rate of return on capital (which is different than the safe interest rate "r&q...

I have a new article out in The Week about how America should be importing more of Japan's latest and greatest inventions: The ques...

Jonathan Chait has a long essay about race and the Obama presidency. I think he goes way too easy on conservatives, who seem to believe t...

A few days ago, the Fed released its workhorse model of the macroeconomy - the FRB/US model - to the public. The model had been only se...

Like every other human in the known Universe, I'm currently reading Michael Lewis' Flash Boys . But I've been thinking abou...

"It's a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want" - The Flaming Lips One of the most startling moments of my life...

I have an article in the Atlantic , basically saying that now that we liberals have won the Culture War, it's time to reach out to co...

I really like this Megan McArdle piece  about risk-taking: If you can’t try something new in 10th grade, when can you? If you can’t affo...

Chris House makes a very good point over at his blog: A physics background will not help you in econ as much as one might imagine. Actual...

I'm a big Nate Silver fan, but let me join the chorus of people looking at his new "data-driven" blog site and saying &q...

Tim Harford has a great article about the backlash against behavioral economics . You should read it. There are two main knocks against ...

Like pretty much everyone else, I love Ta-Nehisi Coates, but in recent years his writing has taken a turn for the pessimistic. During a re...

One of the most annoying arguments that I see popping up again and again is the question of &quo...