Belgian Doctors' open letter on covid-19

A correspondent sent me a link to the Belgian Doctors' open letter on covid-19. I found it original, well-documented, and worth reading...

Fifty shades of QE. Research in the bubble.

It always struck me that research inside the Fed seems to produce answers closer to the views of Fed officials than does research outside of...

"You're hired" Mulligan review

"You're Hired!" is Casey Mulligan's memoir of a year spent as Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisers.  The b...

Growth and regulation

Is economic growth inexorably slowing down? Such is the depressing conclusion of  Nick Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb ...

Things to Focus on in the Fourth Quarter

Yesterday was the first day of fall, which means cooler weather, football, and pumpkin-flavored…everything!  It also means it's time to...

Romer on testing

As part of an email conversation about testing, Paul Romer sent the following message. He so beautifully encapsulated the case for testing,...

Jacobin pandemic

Casey Mulligan tweeted an interesting report on the coronavirus from Jacobin online magazine as "makes the most sense." Given th...

Storm coming

I am very worried about how the next election will play out. I am more worried than most commenters, hence this post, because as an economis...

Muni haircuts

" Municipal bond investors have to share the burden in state bailouts " writes my colleague Josh Rauh, and he is exactly right. B...

A Few of My Favorite Dentrix Reports

Dentrix has so many great reports! There are end-of-day reports such as the Day Sheet and Deposit Slip that you run on a daily basis, report...