- 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.]
Economics Topics
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Price Control
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
International Macroeconomics
- 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
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
- 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
- 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 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
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Common Resources
- 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
- 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 Much Do I Really Need to Retire? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, December 21, 2023
- 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
- Course Materials: empirical asset pricing By Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2021
- How Much Should I Have in Savings? By Steve Garmhausen, The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 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 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
- 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
- Alex Tabarrok on DEFI Decentralized Finance - Crypto and Blockchain Macmillan Learning, YouTube, February 23, 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
- How IRAs Work And Why They Are More Popular Than 401(k)s CNBC YouTube Channel, August 12, 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
- How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke By Peter Coy, The New York Times, August 27, 2021
- The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2021
- How 401(k) Plans Work And Why They Killed Pensions CNBC YouTube Channel, March 24, 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
- 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
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