- Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work Freakonomics Radio, YouTube, July 29, 2024
- A New ‘Holy Grail’ in the Housing Crisis: Statewide Rent Caps By David W. Chen, The New York Times, February 23, 2024
- Don’t Hate the Influencer Who Loves Her Big, Cheap Apartment. Wouldn’t You? By Victoria M. Walker, The New York Times, August 30, 2023
- American cities want rent control to rein in housing costs The Economist, August 25, 2022
- Ireland Puts Minimum Price on Alcohol to Curb Binge Drinking By Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, Jan. 4, 2022 [The new rule, part of broader legislation aimed at stemming alcohol-related illnesses, sets a minimum price of one euro per standard drink and came into effect on Tuesday.]
- What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control? By Rebecca Diamond, Brookings, October 18, 2018
Economics Topics
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Price Control
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
International Macroeconomics
- The unconventional economic theory behind Trump’s sweeping tariff plans By David J. Lynch, The Washington Post, November 17, 2024
- Trade Balances in China and the US Are Largely Driven by Domestic Macro Forces By Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Krishna Srinivasan, Rodrigo Valdés, blog, International Monetary Fund, September 12, 2024
- Fixation with fixed exchange rates harms developing countries By Douglas A. Irwin, Adnan Mazarei and Maurice Obstfeld, Realtime Economics (blog), Peterson Institute of International Economics, September 27, 2024
- A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World By Joe Rennison and and Karl Russell, The New York Times, May 1, 2024
- Global Capital Allocation, Posts By Jesse Screger, X/Twitter, August 28, 2023
- The Dollar Is Stronger. Who Wins? Who Loses? By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, May 6, 2022
- America’s Inflation Solution Could Become the World’s Problem By Jamie Martin, The New York Times, April 28, 2022
- Lecture Videos, Code & Data from the Stanford Big-Data Initiative in International Macro-Finance
- Historical International Macro-Finance Data Sources By Chenzi Xu, Stanford Graduate School of Business YouTube Channel, September 7, 2021
- What three economists taught us about currency arrangements By Jeffrey Frankel, VoxEU, May 2, 2021
- The Mundell difference By Paul Krugman, VoxEU, April 12, 2021
- Robert A. Mundell, a Father of the Euro and Reaganomics, Dies at 88 By Tom Redburn, The New York Times, April 6, 2021
- Robert Mundell, Nobel-winning economist and architect of Reaganomics, dies at 88 By Emily Langner, The Washington Post, April 6, 2021
- Robert Mundell, Nobel-Winning Economist, Dies at Age 88 By James R. Hagerty, The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2021
- Do Import Tariffs Help Reduce Trade Deficits? By Mary Amiti, Mi Dai, Robert C. Feenstra, and John Romalis, Liberty Street Economics (blog), August 13, 2018
- Courses
- The Global Capital Allocation Project by Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Macroeconomics
- The ‘Representative Agent’ Is Always Rational. The Rest of Us Are Not. By Peter Coy, The New York Times, July 10, 2023
- New York Times on HANK, and questions By John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist (blog), July 11, 2023
- Jón Steinsson interview: Forward guidance, the state of macro, and how the economy is like a rumbling volcano By Jeff Horwich, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, December 19, 2022
- A Strong Signal That Recession Is Looming By Peter Coy, The New York Times, December 21, 2022 [Inverted yield curve as a recession prediction]
- Why Even a 40% Tax Break Won’t Move Japan’s Employers to Raise Pay By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2021
- The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom, a game-changer for the economy By Heather Long, The Washington Post, August 18, 2021
- This Is a Terrible Time for Savers By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, August 9, 2021
- The Puzzle of Low Interest Rates By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, December 4, 2020
- Emi Nakamura interview: On price dynamics, monetary policy, and this “scary moment in history” By Douglas Clement, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, May 6, 2020
- Books and Lecture Notes
- Machine Learning for Quant Macro By Zhigang Feng
- Macroeconomics: A comprehensive textbook for first-year Ph.D. courses in macroeconomics.
- Intermediate Macroeconomics By François Geerolf, UCLA - Econ 102 - Intermediate Macro
- Lecture Notes on Graduate Macroeconomics By Christopher Carroll, May 30, 2009
- Intermediate Macroeconomics By Pascal Michaillat
- Advanced Macroeconomics By Klaus Prettner, YouTube
- Introduction to Advanced Macroeconomics By Michael Burda, Humboldt University, Berlin, YouTube
Friday, November 27, 2020
Regulation
- This Port Strike Is the October Surprise Our Election Didn’t Need By Clifford Winston, The New York Times, October 1, 2024 [Good discussion of the regulation of U.S. shipping and ports.]
- To Cut Cancer Risks, E.P.A. Limits Pollution From Chemical Plants By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, April 9, 2024
- All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles All-In Podcast, YouTube Channel, September 15, 2023
- Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits By Emily Flitter and Rob Copeland, The New York Times, March 10, 2023
- Confronting Uncertainty in Climate Policy By Lars Peter Hansen, Chicago Booth Review, July 26, 2022
- Business Strategies and Competition Policy By Jason Furman, Twitter, May 16, 2022
- Why Internet Access Is Slow And Costly In The U.S. CNBC YouTube Channel, October 6, 2021
- Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 20, 2021
- Why the Markets Need a Strong Government Hand By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, April 2, 2021
- Et Tu, Ted? Why Deregulation Failed By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 22, 2021
- The Economic Case for Regulating Social Media By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2021
- E.U. fines drug makers for keeping cheap medicine off market By Associated Press, November 26, 2020
- Antitrust
- Is Apple an Illegal Monopoly? Antitrust Lawyer Breaks Down U.S. v. Apple The Wall Street Journal, YouTube, April 18, 2024
- The Chicken Tycoons vs. the Antitrust Hawks By H. Claire Brown, The New York Times Magazine, December 1, 2023
- The Return of the Trustbusters By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2021
- Break Up Big Chicken By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, August 17, 2021
- Antitrust in a Changing Economy and Changing Economics By Jason Furman, ProMarket (blog), November 30, 2018
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Taxes
- It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires By Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, May 3, 2024
- Surprise! The federal government made a website that doesn’t stink. By Shira Ovide, The Washington Post, March 29, 2024
- The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, February 4, 2024
- How inheritance data secretly explains U.S. inequality By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, November 10, 2023
- Debunking 5 Republican arguments against the global minimum tax By Natasha Sarin and Kimberly Clausing, The Washington Post, August 7, 2023
- Top Federal Individual Income Tax Rate 1913-2023 Tax Policy Center, July 31, 2023
- Biden’s Better Plan to Tax the Rich By Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2022
- This is Tax Evasion, Plain and Simple By Gabriel Zucman and Gus Wezerek, The New York Times, July 7, 2021
- Biden won a global tax rate. Now Americans wonder if it was a good deal. By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, July 5, 2023
- Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States by Stefanie Stantcheva, Twitter thread, June 30, 2023
- Lobbyists Begin Chipping Away at Biden’s $80 Billion I.R.S. Overhaul By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, March 30, 2023
- 'Why we need a wealth tax' By Martin Sandbu, Financial Times, YouTube, September 6, 2022
- Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program. By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, July 19, 2021
- Opinion: Americans spend hours and hours preparing their taxes. We shouldn’t have to. by Helaine Olen, The Washington Post, May 15, 2021
- Translating Tax Jargon Ahead of Tax Day: An Illustrated Guide to Common Terms By Randy Yeip, James Benedict, and Andrew Levinson, The Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2021
- Column: 23,000 households reported income over $10 million last year. The IRS audited seven By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2020
- Say Yes to Progressive Taxation By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, October 28, 2020
- Companies Save Billions in Taxes by Shifting Assets Around Globe By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2020
- The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate By Jim Tankersley and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2020
- How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, October 13, 2019
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Common Resources
- Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds By Austyn Gaffney, The New York Times, August 22, 2024
- Can Fees on Polluting Cars Clean the Air? London Has New Evidence. By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times, July 26, 2024
- Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming PBS NewsHour, June 24, 2024 [Tragedy of the Commons and the Ogallala Aquifer.]
- The Paradox Holding Back the Clean Energy Revolution By Ed Conway, The New York Times, February 22, 2024
- Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water? By Coral Davenport, The New York Times, December 28, 2023 ["With
aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, one part of California has
tried essentially taxing groundwater. New research shows it’s working."]
- The Struggle to Conserve Threatened Forests in Haiti By Ekpali Saint, Earth.org, Dec 30, 2022 [Has a stunning picture of the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.]
- As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul, The New York Times, November 24, 2023
- In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air By Brad Plumer, The New York Times, November 9, 2023 [Government subsides and carbon credits at work.]
- When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics By Christopher Ketcham, The Intercept, October 29, 2023
- Whales, From Above By Ellie Duke with Photographs and Video by Sutton Lynch, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2023 [The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion.]
- Air Quality Life Index
- America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2023 [Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed.]
- Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into America’s Groundwater Crisis By Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023
- Uncharted Waters By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023 [The threat to groundwater is a classic tragedy of the commons.]
- The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions By Kasha Patel, The Washington Post, August 17, 2023
- A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization By Alissa J. Rubin with photographs by Bryan Denton, The New York Times, July 29, 2023
- Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse. By Christopher Flavelle, Jill Cowan and Ivan Penn, The New York Times, May 31, 2023
- Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian, January 18, 2023
- Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act. By John Waldman, December 30, 2022
- The gold-mining city that is destroying a sacred Venezuelan mountain By Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Janice Kai Chen, TheWashington Post, December 6, 2022
- Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, November 4, 2022
- The Amazon, undone: A failure of enforcement By Story by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela, The Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2022
- Carbon Offsets By John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, YouTube, August 22, 2022
- This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End By David Marchese, The New York Times, July 17, 2022
- How Demand for Twigs Is Bringing Down a Rainforest By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, July 14, 2022
- Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, June 14, 2022
- Devouring the rainforest By Terrence McCoy and Julia Ledur, The Washington Post, April 29, 2022
- How do carbon markets work? The Economist YouTube Channel, October 1, 2021
- China Opened a National Carbon Market. Here’s Why It Matters. By Chris Buckley, The New York Times, July 16, 2021
- New Carbon Market Pays Southern Pine-Growers Not to Cut By Ryan Dezember, The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2021
- ‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village By Carey Gillam, The Guardian, 10 Jan 2021
- ‘The Fish Rots From the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests By Anton Troianovski with Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2020
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Finance
- Massachusetts, Money, and Inflation-Linked Notes By Daniel Dematos, The Tontine Coffee House, August 19, 2024
- Growth Stocks. Value Stocks. What Do Those Labels Mean? By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, May 10, 2024
- Wall St. Loves to Guess, but Nobody Knows What the Market Will Do in 2024 By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, December 23, 2023 ["So-called stock forecasts don’t deserve the name, our columnist says. Wall Street’s track record is horrendous."]
- How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? By Rob Copeland, The New York Times, November 1, 2023
- A ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums By Maureen Farrell, The New York Times, October 4, 2023
- Harry Markowitz (1927-2023): Bringing Finance Into Economics By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, June 26, 2023
- Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95 By Robert D. Hershey Jr., The New York Times, June 25, 2023
- Risky Bet on Crypto and a Run on Deposits Tank Signature Bank By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter, The New York Times, March 12, 2023 [Regulators said keeping open the 24-year-old
institution, which held deposits from law firms and real estate
companies, could threaten the financial system’s stability.]
- The Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism By Mihir A. Desai, The New York Times, January 16, 2023
- Inflation bonds are earning eye-popping rates: 9.62 percent. By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, May 4, 2022
- Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs By Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, 28 Nov 2021
- Inflation Bonds Are Getting a Big Rate Bump By Ann Carrns, The Nw York Times, Nov. 4, 2021
- Only 35% Pass Wall St.’s Toughest Test. How Much Does That Matter? By Lananh Nguyen, The New York Times, September 30, 2021
- Stock, Bond and Real Estate Prices Are All Uncomfortably High By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, October 1, 2021
- Is a home warranty a waste or a smart buy? By Anthony Giorgianni and Kevin Brasler, The Washington Post, September 21, 2021
- The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2021
- What happened with GameStop? By Alexis Goldstein, Markets Weekly, 28 Jan 2021
- We Buy A Junk Bond Planet Money (podcast), September 9, 2020
- The Murderer, The Boy King, And The Invention Of Modern Finance Planet Money (podcast), September 4, 2020
- Mutual Fund Winners Don’t Stay Ahead for Long By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, July 31, 2020
- Course Materials
- empirical asset pricing By Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2021
- YouTube
- Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism Mercatus Center, YouTube, Nov. 18, 2024
- Alex Tabarrok on DEFI Decentralized Finance - Crypto and Blockchain Macmillan Learning, YouTube, February 23, 2022
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Myron S. Scholes by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 28, 2018
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Jeremy Siegel by Andrew Lo and Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, November 2, 2018
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert C. Merton by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 15, 2017
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert J. Shiller by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 9, 2017
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Harry M. Markowitz by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 23, 2017
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Eugene F. Fama by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 15, 2016
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Porfolio: William F. Sharpe by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 26, 2016
- The Secret History of the Credit Card Frontline PBS YouTube Channel, November 23, 2004
- Retirement
- Why Do So Many Americans Pass Up Bigger Social Security Checks? By Peter Coy, The New York Times, November 11, 2024
- A look at the Social Security funding gap and ways to fix it PBS NewsHour, YouTube, August 12, 2024
- How Much of My Paycheck Should I Save? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, June 21, 2024
- Was the 401(k) a Mistake? By Michael Steinberger, The New York Times Magazine, May 8, 2024
- What to Do When Your 401(k) Leaves Something to Be Desired By Mark Miller, The New York Times, April 19, 2024
- How Much Do I Really Need to Retire? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, December 21, 2023
- How Much Should I Have in Savings? By Steve Garmhausen, The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2023
- How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke By Peter Coy, The New York Times, August 27, 2021
- How IRAs Work And Why They Are More Popular Than 401(k)s CNBC YouTube Channel, August 12, 2021
- How 401(k) Plans Work And Why They Killed Pensions CNBC YouTube Channel, March 24, 2021
- The Perfect Retirement Investment Nobody Wants By Peter Coy, The New York Times, February 17, 2023
- For More Certainty in Your Retirement Portfolio, Consider Annuities By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, February 7, 2023
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