Supply and Demand (in that order)

Overview (about 5.5 minutes) Do Transfers Stimulate the Economy? (about 2.5 minutes) Politically Incorrect (about 3 minutes)...

A widely held belief: "[The poor and unemployed] will spend a large fraction of any aid, and therefore transfers to that group will hav...

EVENT TOMORROW: American Action Forum Event Will Examine Stimulus Spending Effects on Welfare Efficacy ...

Copyright, The New York Post Doubt of the benefit Why increasing unemployment aid is prolonging the recession By CASEY B. MULLIGAN More f...

Deepen End This Depression Now! insists that we taxpayers should trust the author and other Keynesians with trillions of our dollars, and i...

Despite the fact that Deepen End This Depression Now! arrives at exactly the backwards conclusion, it has a number of highlights and intere...

Copyright, The New York Times Company The decline of home construction is not the primary reason that our labor market remains depressed: ...

Copyright, The New York Times Company A fundamental flaw in much of the advocacy for government spending to “jump-start the economy” has b...

Copyright, The New York Times Company That the introduction of iPhone 5 increases consumer spending is no triumph for Keynesian economics, b...

Copyright, The New York Times Company In 2009 the New York Yankees opened their new stadium on the north side of East 161st Street, repl...

Professor Krugman is slowly converging to my view that supply matters even during recessions. I'll explain more tomorrow in a more len...

Copyright, The New York Times Company Last week’s final report on gross domestic product for 2010 provides a fresh opportunity to evaluate t...

I've heard some complaints about my seasonals article : that I should have looked at the impact of Christmas value-added rather than Ch...

Copyright, The New York Times Company With Christmas each year comes lessons about the role of demand in the economy. Retail sales are typic...

About 14 minutes ... for a shorter version, jump ahead to the 6:40 mark. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/2009/03/000000_business_...

A translation of White House econ jargon from Jonah Goldberg : The White House insists that it's ... responsible for every single new jo...

Copyright, The New York Times Company Stimulus advocates have offered the United States engagement in World War II as evidence that governme...

Copyright, The New York Times Company The tax cuts and public spending increases from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are...