Yesterday, I gave a keynote talk at the tenth American Economic Association Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE). I have been teaching economics for 53 years. I love ...
Last week at the American Economic Association meetings, held online, many papers focused on Covid-19. A good example was the session organized by Dominick Salvatore which included Jan Eberly, Ra...
https://economicsone.com/2021/01/09/electronic-commerce-non-store-sales-and-the-pandemic/
Thomas Sowell has a new book. It is terrific and timely. It is called Charter Schools and Their Enemies, officially published today, June 30, 2020, which happens to be his 90th birthday. Happy Bi...
https://economicsone.com/2020/06/30/happy-birthday-and-a-terrific-new-book-by-thomas-sowell/
Deepak Lal, an outspoken champion of freedom and market‐oriented policies throughout the world, died yesterday in London. I heard the sad news from my friend Ed Feulner who called on the p...
https://economicsone.com/2020/05/01/deepak-lal-and-market-oriented-policies/
Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held an important hearing entitled “Big Bank Bankruptcy: 10 Years After Lehman Brothers.” Originally scheduled for October, but postponed because of t...
https://economicsone.com/2018/11/14/now-there-all-saying-its-time-to-write-chapter-14-into-law/
Joe Stiglitz recently published an attack, “The Myth of Secular Stagnation,” on Larry Summers’ hypothesis of secular stagnation, a revival of a term used by Alvin Hansen decades ago. Larry ...
https://economicsone.com/2018/09/16/stiglitz-summers-secular-stagnation-and-the-supply-side/
An important part of the Fed’s normalization policy is to reduce its holdings of securities and thereby reserve balances—deposits of banks at the Fed—used to finance these holdings. As I ar...
https://economicsone.com/2017/06/24/reserve-balances-and-the-feds-balance-sheet-in-the-future/
Today the House Judiciary Subcommittee lead by Tom Marino held a hearing on the Financial Institution Bankruptcy Act (FIBA) which lays out in clear legislative language the “Chapter 14 type” ...
https://economicsone.com/2017/03/23/its-time-to-pass-the-financial-institutions-bankruptcy-act/
“Growth Conundrum” sets the theme for the many fascinating articles in the latest issue of the IMF’s quarterly magazine Finance and Development which includes an opening essay by Nicholas C...
https://economicsone.com/2017/03/01/economic-policy-explains-growth-conundrum/
During the past two days, economists from around the world gathered at the Hoover Institution to focus on the crucial problem of how to restore prosperity. They took stock of lessons from past ex...