Yesterday
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Joe Biden’s economic management has been a secret triumph
Putting full employment first will have been worth the trouble of a couple of years of elevated inflation.
June 2021
- Opinion
- Global economy
Inflation panic proves transitory
Ominous warnings of 1970s-type stagflation are so last week following the Federal Reserve’s deflation of the case for a sustained outbreak of inflation.
- Opinion
- Globalisation
Economic nationalism, Joe Biden-style
Biden won’t start many trade wars, but he won’t sign many trade deals either.
January 2021
- Opinion
- US politics
Who’s radical now? The case of minimum wages
Republicans' objections to minimum wages run counter to popular opinion and the conclusions of mainstream economics.
August 2020
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
Trump sends in the economic quacks
A proposed payroll tax cut is the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. It's a quack remedy that somehow caught Donald Trump's eye.
February 2020
- Opinion
- Trump impeachment
How zombies ate the Republican Party's soul
A result of decades of zombification is a Republican caucus that consists entirely of soulless opportunists (and no, the fact that some of them like to quote Scripture doesn't change that fact).
November 2019
- Opinion
- Billionaires
It's time to burst the billionaire bubble
The idea that America is just waiting for a billionaire businessman to save the day by riding in on a white horse — or, actually, being driven over in a black limo — is just silly. It is, in fact, the kind of thing only a billionaire could believe.
September 2019
- Opinion
- Democracy
Democracy is dying in the US
In less than three years the US Justice Department has been transformed from an agency enforcing the law to one dedicated to punishing Trump's opponents, writes Paul Krugman.
