A Possible U.S.-China Trade War
The media is paying little attention to the possibility of a U.S.-China trade war in the near future, despite the fact that President Donald Trump […]
Month: October 2017
Who is Misbehaving?
The Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for 2017, recently announced, will be awarded to Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago. Thaler’s field, behavioral economics, […]
Debt Dualism
Since the beginning of this blog series, I have emphasized how much the polarization of political economy is rooted in debt. One the one hand, […]
Borrow and Spend
The U.S. Republican Party, having failed to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, has now turned to another important but divisive issue: taxes. President […]