Economic Policy
Big picture coverage of macroeconomics, political economy, and governments' roles in world commerce.
- A Bill That Deserved to Pass Vincent R. Reinhart 10/06/2008
- Henry Paulson has been granted broad authority to purchase troubled assets. Now it’s time for him to buy, buy, buy.
- Does This Happen Often? John Steele Gordon 10/06/2008
- A look back at the financial crisis of 1836, which triggered America’s first protracted depression.
- Main Street vs. Wall Street Arnold Kling 10/03/2008
- The financial bailout isn’t as bad as Main Street thinks. It’s worse.
- A Bill That Deserves to Fail Diana Furchtgott-Roth 10/02/2008
- The pending bailout legislation does not offer realistic solutions to our current financial problems.
- The $700 Billion Man: A Symposium THE AMERICAN 09/25/2008
- What should we make of the proposed government bank bailout?
- Upwardly Mobile America? Stephen Moore 09/22/2008
- Are we in a new ‘gilded age’ where the rich are doing well and the poor and middle class are treading water?
- Secretary Paulson’s Double-Dog Dare Vincent R. Reinhart 09/18/2008
- The line in the sand that Treasury drew over the weekend was obscured within a few days.
- Is Europe Headed for a Recession? Desmond Lachman 09/17/2008
- Recent economic data paint a gloomy picture.
- How China Helps America’s Poor Heather Wilhelm 09/12/2008
- The University of Chicago’s Christian Broda says U.S. trade with China has reduced prices and mitigated inequality.
- The Pigou Club Goes to Washington Ted Gayer 09/10/2008
- Higher pollution taxes make sense, provided the revenues are used to offset existing taxes that distort incentives.