Inflation explainer

A few Stanford colleagues got together to talk about inflation, and that gave me an incentive to summarize recent writings as compactly as p...

The Fed Needs Fiscal Help

The Fed Cannot Cure Inflation by Itself , Wall Street Journal June 28 2022 This is the original version, before WSJ edits. They made it sh...

Health policy video/podcast

I did a podcast on health policy with  Daniel Belkin and Mitch Belkin at the External Medicine Podcast . video embedded above, audio at the...

Woke week

Two readings from last week, in the self-destruction of American academia and other institutions.  *********** The Nature of the Beast Ba...

Letter to the AEA

A group of economists recently posted a petition to the American Economic Association, that it move its annual meetings away from New Orlea...

How much do interest rates help?

So if the Fed raises interest rates, how much and how soon will that help inflation? For another project , I went back to Valerie Ramey'...