An essay at The Hill on what to make of market volatility: What’s causing the big drop in the stock market, and the bout of enormous vola...
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Monday, 31 December 2018
Sunday, 30 December 2018
Sumner on teaching economics
Scott Sumner has a terrific post on teaching economics . (HT Marginal Revolution) The core ideas of economics are extremely counterintuitiv...
Saturday, 29 December 2018
Homeless
Christopher Rufo at the New York Post has an interesting article on homeless problems in Seattle. The analysis rings true of many other are...
Thursday, 27 December 2018
Flood insurance will be tough to find during federal government shutdown
During the federal government shutdown that started Dec. 21, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) will not sell new flood insurance p...
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
Imagine what we could cure -- full oped
A WSJ oped with J J Plecs, formerly of Roam Analytics , which does a lot of health related data work. This is the full oped now that 30 d...
Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Monday, 17 December 2018
Thinking about buying a condo? Here’s what you should know about insuring it
We talk to consumers a lot about homeowner and renter insurance, but condos are a type of housing that have unique insurance considerations...
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Series on recession and financial crisis
Over the last few weeks we have had a series of discussions at Hoover on the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis and recession. This...
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Avoid being the victim of package theft
December is the season for shopping for gifts, which means it’s also prime Grinch season for car break-ins and thefts. Theft from a house ...
Friday, 7 December 2018
Canadian Debt
Corey Garriott, Sophie Lefebvre, Guillaume Nolin, Francisco Rivadeneyra and Adrian Walton at the Bank of Canada have issued a thoughtful and...
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Brexit and democracy
Tyler Cowen has a very interesting Bloomberg column on Brexit . Essentially, he views the UK getting this right -- which I agree it does not...
Canadian non-QE
Friday at Hoover we will have a series of events reexamining the lessons of the financial crisis and recession. (There is a public event her...
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Taylor on China and Trade and Ideas
Tim Taylor, also reviewing Summers on China , makes a few excellent points. Growth comes from within. Trade is not conquest. The formula ...
Sumner on China; Trade in ideas
Scott Summer, also reviewing Summers on China , makes a few excellent points. Growth comes from within. Trade is not conquest. The formul...
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Summers on China
(Continues from my last post on China trade ) Larry Summers has a good Financial Times oped on the same subject, titled "Washington...
Flowers not tariffs
I wrote a little commentary on trade for The Hill, which they titled " The US should give China Flowers not Tariffs ." Chocolates ...
Monday, 3 December 2018
Financing innovation
I went to the Financing of Innovation summit at Stanford GSB last Thursday. (Sorry, I can't seem to find a full program online.) Here i...
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