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All Onion, No Bloom
Another workweek over, another pile of economic news to sort through. I joined Stacey Vanek Smith to comb through the week that was, in a series we call Off the Clock. Think of it as two mates sitting down over a beer and doing what good fr...
The $7.26 Cappuccino Problem
September’s inflation numbers came out this week, and they were higher than anyone wanted or expected. The consumer price index shows that the cost of living rose by 3.7% over the past year. Then yesterday, the producer price index came out...
The Inflation Surprise Nobody Wanted
The last inflation report before the election is out, and it’s a doozy.
The headline: Inflation is worse than we thought and higher than it ought to be. No one is going to be happy about it.
This probably doesn’t come as news to your wall...
The Kim Kardashian Problem in Welfare Economics
Last week, I looked at the White House’s “tax-free diesel” plan. That’s an executive order letting truckers fill up with the red-dyed, normally untaxed fuel usually reserved for farm equipment like tractors and bulldozers.
You can catch up...
The Most Successful Failure in Economics Just Won a Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Economics was announced this morning. It went to Robert Hall of Stanford and Michael Woodford of Columbia (also known as Bob and Mike). I’m on the road right now, but I couldn’t wait — I had to sit down and dig into this...
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