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Over the last three years, a quiet rebellion seems to have sprung up in macroeconomic circles. So ...

There is a lot of buzz about the effort by the Koch brothers and assorted conservative groups to end "net metering" for solar ...

Today both Alex Tabarrok  and Ezra Klein posted this list of economics "lessons" given by Tom Sargent (a strong contender fo...

A lot of people think that inflation makes them poorer. I hear this all the time. It makes sense, right? You might think: "Hmm...

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...