The life of John Maynard Keynes, and its relevance today | Continue reading
Hoping for a better future | Continue reading
Chaos and incompetence are bad. Who knew? | Continue reading
Trump’s tariffs are a disaster. His policy process is worse. | Continue reading
“Liberation Day” is even worse than expected | Continue reading
There’s no plan, secret or otherwise, behind Trump’s tariffs | Continue reading
Some perspective on the eve of trade war | Continue reading
And business owners were deluded to believe otherwise | Continue reading
And what is the “Mar-a-Lago Accord”? | Continue reading
Or, we used to have reasonable people in government | Continue reading
In MAGA world, there are no honest skeptics | Continue reading
New York City is great again, but MAGA can’t handle the truth | Continue reading
Trump’s people can be and are both | Continue reading
About a “boring” country that definitely isn’t | Continue reading
Trump’s policies attack his own base — but who will tell them? | Continue reading
And why you shouldn’t panic over trade deficits | Continue reading
A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson | Continue reading
Europe is a superpower, if it wants to be | Continue reading
Of drunkards, lampposts and economic doctrines | Continue reading
Why Elon Musk wants to make seniors suffer | Continue reading
Or, how Scott Bessent (sort of) became spiritual | Continue reading
Losing the world's trust, and a lot of money too | Continue reading
Including how to think about Trumpflation | Continue reading
A conversation with Neil Dutta | Continue reading
And other tales of collapsing confidence | Continue reading
Does Trump want us to manufacture sneakers, not semiconductors? | Continue reading
Especially when you’re running a country | Continue reading
A recording from Paul Krugman and Andy Borowitz's live video | Continue reading
No, we don’t need an economic “detox” | Continue reading
We basically have government by QAnon | Continue reading
It’s a pretty good program, and we can afford it | Continue reading
My home subject has gotten too interesting | Continue reading
This was not the jobs report you’re looking for | Continue reading
A recording from Paul Krugman and Mehdi Hasan's live video | Continue reading
The “strategic crypto reserve” will be a giant rug pull scam | Continue reading
Surprise! The madman stuff wasn’t an act | Continue reading
The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who do | Continue reading
Can Europe rise to the occasion? | Continue reading
There are doom loops everywhere you look | Continue reading
On risks to democracy nobody even thought about | Continue reading
Ignorance, megalomania and the economic future | Continue reading
A recording from Paul Krugman and Nate Silver's live video | Continue reading
And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims | Continue reading
A potential superpower realizes that it can’t rely on America | Continue reading
Some of what I learned from the market veteran | Continue reading
And other notes from the Chaos | Continue reading
How it got so big and what should come next (but won't) | Continue reading
It’s the golden age of fraud, and other observations | Continue reading