MV = PQ ?

Jonathan Wight

Deficits, Mediamacro and Popular Opinion

Simon Wren-Lewis

Traffic Jams and Multipliers

David Glasner

20 maps that never happened

Matthew Yglesias

Who you callin’ massive? The CRomnibus actually cuts discretionary spending to historic lows as share of GDP.

Jared Bernstein

The value of everything: inclusive wealth

The Economist

The Coase theorem and methodological nationalism

Branko Milanovic

Employers Will Have to Raise Wages. They Just Don’t Know It Yet.

Neil Irwin

It doesn’t matter if torture worked. It’s still wrong.

Amanda Taub

The gigantic disaster of the CIA’s torture program

Paul Waldman

23 maps that explain how Democrats went from the party of racism to the party of Obama

Andrew Prokop

How economics is like 1950s Freudian psychology

Andrew Gelman

The Price of Pork Bellies

Jonathan Wight

Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate: Mostly Demographics and Long Term Trends

Bill McBride

The imaginary world of small state people

Simon Wren-Lewis

What if we priced food in gold?

The FRED Blog

Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather?

Nate Silver & Reuben Fischer-Baum

Sociology vs.the Empire

Noah Smith

How Our Taxi Article Happened to Undercut the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Josh Barro

The Fabric of Our Lives

The brutal history of cotton debunks many of the most popular myths about capitalism.

Eric Herschthal

Capitalism is officially broken: Even doggy day care workers have non-competes now

Matt O'Brien

Chris Rock is right: White Americans are a lot less racist than they used to be.

Christopher Ingraham

Unemployment by occupation

The FRED Blog

Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

Ta-Nehisi Coates

We shouldn't talk about Ferguson without talking about guns

Matthew Yglesias

Why do we think businesspeople will make good politicians?

Paul Waldman

Barack Obama, Ferguson, and racial wounds unhealed

Paul Waldman

Endocrine Disruptors and the Brain

Jonathan Wight

The Gospel of Rudy Giuliani

Why is no one talking about American-on-American crime?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Why do traffic jams sometimes form for no reason?

Joseph Stromberg


more

Graphing GDP components with our new release view

The FRED Blog

Conservative pundits might like Obama more if he really were a caudillo

Matthew Yglesias

Economics Is a Dismal Science for Women

Noah Smith

Skeptical Football: Patriots vs. Cardinals And An Interactive History Of The NFL

Benjamin Morris

Have Economists Been Captured by Business Interests?

Justin Fox

The Wisdom of Peter Schiff

Paul Krugman

The Never-Ending Replay of November 22, 1963

Larry Sabato

Wait! The right wants a new CBO director after all.

Lori Montgomery

If You're White and Feel Discriminated Against, Jose Antonio Vargas Wants to Talk to You

Inae Oh

Measuring labor costs

The FRED Blog

Table 1.1.5. Gross Domestic Product: Quarterly

An example of FRED Release View

THE FRED Blog

FRED Release View Tutorial

The FRED Blog

Why Scott Walker Might Be Our Next President

Kevin Drum

Walmart’s Weatherman

Alison Griswold

Whatever Happened to Overtime?

Nick Hanauer

Federal, state, and local expenditures

The FRED Blog

Congress would rather you drive to work than take public transit

Emily Badger

It Shouldn't Need Saying...

James Wolcott

Instant Runoff Voting and Strategic Voting

Matt Bruenig

Repeat After Me: The Quantity of Labor Demanded is Not Always Equal to the Quantity Supplied

Roger Farmer

Elmendorf for CBO Director

Greg Mankiw

The SEC West and Maximum Likelihood

Chase Stuart

The NAIRU, explained: why economists don't want unemployment to drop too low

Matthew Yglesias

AOL’s ‘digital prophet’ is everything wrong with Corporate America today

Matt O'Brien

42 maps that explain World War II

Timothy B. Lee

The gold standard is a perfect currency choice for ISIS

Matthew Yglesias

6 questions about Washington, DC, statehood you were too disenfranchised to ask

German Lopez

The real reason Valerie Jarrett is the most hated person in Washington

Matthew Yglesias

Employment: Party Like It's 1999!

Bill McBride

Trickle-down Inflation

Jonathan Wight

Commentary: Politics and Jobs

Bill McBride

This billionaire thinks the Fed is missing the hyperinflation in the Hamptons

Matt O'Brien

The government has finally stopped sabotaging the economy

Danielle Kurtzleben

Apple borrowing billions to pay shareholders is everything wrong with capitalism today

Matt O'Brien

On financial stress

The FRED Blog

Meet Elmus Wicker

David Warsh

The Mayor Who Solved Boston

Peter Canellos

The labor force participation rate is at a low point

Mitchell Hartman

Once again, the jobs report escaped the margin of error

Danielle Kurtzleben 

The Day the Wall Came Down

Why the fall of the Berlin Wall led to the world we know today.

Fred Kaplan

Decomposing the velocity of money

Sober Look

Why turning our clocks back Sunday makes no sense

Chris Mooney

Of sticky and flexible prices

The FRED Blog

A $90 Million Condo Flip Shows What’s Wrong With Financial Capitalism

Neil Irwin

The State Does Not Enforce Most Agreements

Matt Bruenig

Regulation and private laws

Matt Bruenig

Gap between wages and rents continues to grow

Sober Look

A Few Comments on QE

Bill McBride

The real problem with Joni Ernst’s quote about guns and the government

Paul Waldman

How fast has the unemployment rate declined?

The FRED Blog

What Republicans don’t get about the minimum wage

Paul Waldman

Americans don't have a constitutional right to vote — it's time for that to change

Matthew Yglesias

Imperfect Competition, Legitimate at Last

David Warsh

This is what the legacy of ‘white privilege’ looks like in Bill O’Reilly’s hometown

Emily Badger

Big move for vol of vol

Sober Look

What’s the “normal” unemployment rate?

The FRED Blog

The Civility Whine

Paul Krugman

To say: “we fought the war on poverty and lost” is to reveal your contempt for facts.

Jared Bernstein

You know there’s something wrong with the economy when sandwich-makers have non-compete clauses

Matt O'Brien

Sins of Omission

Citizenfour is a fine documentary. Too bad the director glossed over some important details—and Edward Snowden didn’t gloss over more.

Fred Kaplan

Top economists say Piketty is wrong about wealth inequality. They misunderstood him.

Matt O'Brien

When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause

Neil Irwin

Wading Toward Home

Michael Lewis

An American billionaire wants to save the US economy with a betting market in New Zealand

Timothy B Lee

Paul Ryan has a trick up his sleeve when it comes to taxes. It won’t work.

Matt O'Brien

Three ways of understanding the world

Noah Smith

Posner Rethinks Voter I.D. Laws

Jonathan Wight

Jean Tirole’s Nobel Prize Is Also a Win for Modern Microeconomic Theory

Justin Wolfers

Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics for actually showing us how the real world works

Matt O'Brien

Morning Must-Read: Annie Lowrey: Amazon Is Not a Monopoly

via Brad DeLong

Understand the research that just won Jean Tirole the economics Nobel Prize

Danielle Kurtzleben

The Nobel prize goes to Jean Tirole

The Economist

One paper by Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole that every internet user should know

Matthew Yglesias

An Excess of Virtue?

Jonathan Wight

Greenberg’s Folly

The former CEO wants the government to pay up for saving AIG.

Zachary Karabell

How the media has helped normalize GOP crazy

Paul Waldman

Dollar strength and inflation expectations

Sober Look

Wonderful Property Rights Dispute In San Francisco

Matt Bruenig

The real problem with Nate Silver's model is the hazy metaphysics of probability

Matthew Yglesias

One paragraph that explains why the American economy isn't working for the middle class

Matthew Yglesias

Labor supply/demand imbalance in the United States

Sober Look

Twitter Is Broken

David Auerbach

Fed's Labor Market Conditions Index

Bill McBride

More prices that deviate from the CPI

The FRED Blog

More asymmetries: Is Keynesian economics left wing?

Simon Wren-Lewis

The New United States of America

Ben Blatt

11 ways race isn’t real

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Inflation Hawks’ Views Are Independent of Actual Monetary Outcomes

Josh Barro

Poverty isn't just about not having much; it's about never knowing how much you're going to have

Danielle Kurtzleben

Inequality really is rising, no matter how you fuss with the data

Matthew Yglesias

11 maps that explain Washington, DC

Matthew Yglesias

‘Hey, didn’t you tell me that the Pirates would win the World Series?’ ‘Yes, but I didn’t say when.’

Andrew Gelman

The Long Cryptocon

Paul Krugman

How close are the US labor markets to normalization?

Sober Look

Inflation hawks keep insisting they’re right. Reality disagrees.

Matt O'Brien

Not all prices increase

The FRED Blog

Now as Provocateur, Summers Says Treasury Undermined Fed

Binyamin Appelbaum

Now as Provocateur, Summers Says Treasury Undermined Fed

Binyamin Appelbaum

Financial firms don’t need an inside job to get favorable Fed treatment

Kindred Winecoff

This recession was different

The FRED Blog

The Terrible Two

Paul Krugman

A clearer picture of housing equity before the crisis

The FRED Blog

Don't Pick the Wrong iPhone

Cass Sunstein

Why do people on Wall Street make so much money?

Matt O'Brien

Making it cheaper and easier to trade stocks is a terrible idea

Matthew Yglesias

Return of the Bums on Welfare

Paul Krugman

Georgia governor concocts conspiracy theory to explain away the nation's highest unemployment rate

Matthew Yglesias

John Boehner’s Theory of the Leisure Class

Paul Krugman

If the lagging labor force rate doesn’t still embody considerable slack, then why does it increasingly predict wage growth?

Jared Bernstein

The demographics of the activity rate decline

The FRED Blog

Follow or Break the Rule?

Greg Mankiw

Wild Words, Brain Worms, and Civility

Paul Krugman

A brief, animated history of urban annexation

Emily Badger

Not all books are created equal

The FRED Blog

The Biggest Problem in American Politics

Reihan Salam

Scott Brown won his primary. Now he wants to be the first multi-state senator in 135 years

Andrew Prokop

The economics of reclining your airplane seat aren’t so simple

James Johnson

The Jobless Rate: The Worst Benchmark, Except for All the Others

Binyamin Appelbaum

US health care in international context: the very picture of an outlier

Jared Bernstein

“Force” arguments continue to be the rhetorical backwater of idiots

Matt Bruenig

What The Economist could have read before suggesting that U.S. slavery wasn’t all bad

Chris Blattman

Commentary: Subprime Thinking

Bill McBride

Don’t Know Much Revisionist History

Jamelle Bouie

4th Down: When to Go for It and Why

David Leonhardt

The class war in American politics is over. The rich won.

Nick Carnes

8 facts that explain what’s wrong with American health care

Sarah Kliff

Is America's health care underperformance a myth?

Noah Smith

3 sentences no one should forget about unions

Ezra Klein

Market Basket’s Employees Were More Important Than Its Shareholders

Justin Fox

The Axis is back

Noah Smith

Quits and layoffs

The FRED Blog

A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate

David Leonhardt

Real Americans and Real Economics

Paul Krugman

Yellen, Wages, and Intellectual Honesty

Paul Krugman

Mr. Piketty and the classics

Branko Milanovic

Chart of the Day: Welfare Reform and the Great Recession

Kevin Drum

5 charts that prove it's time workers got a raise

Matthew Yglesias

M2 velocity and inflation

The FRED Blog

A conservative economist makes a devastating case against his own inflation fear-mongering

Dylan Matthews

Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Jonathan Wight

Inequality Delusions

Paul Krugman

40 maps that explain the Roman Empire

Timothy B. Lee

Deutsche Bank: Ignoring food price pressures could be a mistake

Sober Look

By all means, we should ‘politicize’ Ferguson

Paul Waldman

RBC models we can believe in?

Noah Smith

What libertarians and conservatives get wrong about Ferguson

Paul Waldman

Finding old inflation data

The FRED Blog

The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated

Matthew Yglesias argues loudly for a return to higher transactions costs for some inexplicable reason.

The Beveridge Curve hysteresis and the long-term unemployed

Sober Look

The World Bank summed up the entire global economy in one chart

Matthew Yglesias

The Gold Standard and Price Inflation

David Andolfatto

Obama’s critics are suddenly sure Hillary Clinton is great

Ezra Klein

Yes, women's labor force participation matters

Noah Smith

Why aren’t libertarians talking about Ferguson?

Paul Waldman

Measuring risk

The FRED Blog

Steps and the City

Paul Krugman

Has the Beveridge Curve Really Shifted?

Jared Bernstein

How Republican Craziness Is Undermining the South’s Massive Keynesian Stimulus

Mike the Mad Biologist

This billionaire has a message about inequality other billionaires aren’t going to like

Ezra Klein

Still No Wage Pressures to Speak Of…And Yet, People Speak of Them…

Jared Bernstein

Are libertarians ready to embrace a broader notion of freedom?

Noah Smith

Libertarian Fantasies

Paul Krugman

CPI component volatility

The FRED Blog

White people are winning the war on whites

Christopher Ingraham

These 7 Charts Show Why the Rent Is Too Damn High

Erika Eichelberger & AJ Vicens

Good News on Financial Reform

Paul Krugman

Let's Hope the GAO Report Ends the Too-Big-to-Fail Subsidy Distraction

Mike Konczal

The case for a maximum wage

Matthew Yglesias

Hawks Be Gone

Paul Krugman

James Garfield, Modern Medicine, and Economics

Jonathan Wight

Broken Windows Policing Kills People

Jamelle Bouie

Why 70% of the people killed in Israel-Gaza violence are innocent Palestinian civilians

Max Fisher

Why the Rich Should Call for Income Redistribution

Mark Thoma

Tight rental market holding back household formation

Sober Look

Inflation OCD

Paul Krugman

We Don’t Need to End “Too Big to Fail”

Eric Posner

Food, Energy and the Fed

WSJ's Chief Economics Correspondent Jon Hilsenrath explains inflation and why the Federal Reserve seemingly ignores food and energy prices in its index.

In Investing, 'When' Matters Just as Much as 'What'

Neil Irwin

Inflation, Unemployment, Ignorance

Paul Krugman

In Investing, 'When' Matters Just as Much as 'What'

Neil Irwin

Spurious correlation

The FRED Blog

Why a Soaring Stock Market Is Wasted on the Young

Neil Irwin

Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index

John S. Greenlees & Robert B. McClelland

On State Unemployment Rates, It’s Analyst Beware

Justin Wolfers

Thoughts on the Fed's New Labor Market Conditions Index

Carola Binder

more

Achieving Greater Long-Term Wealth Through Index Funds

Charles Rotblut & John C. Bogle

North Carolina’s Misunderstood Cut in Jobless Benefits

Justin Wolfers

National Review’s Dishonest History

Jamelle Bouie

John Fund thinks blacks have been fooled into supporting Democrats. That’s even more insulting than his misleading history of Jim Crow laws.

Why Voters Aren’t Angrier About Economic Inequality

Eduardo Porter

Moore of the Same

Paul Krugman

National unity sure is helpful

Noah Smith

Wall Street Skips Economics Class

Noah Smith

The US Phillips curve

Sober Look

Chart: Even mediocre CEOs get huge pay packages

Danielle Kurtzleben

Less than a quarter of Americans get the most important investment question right

Dylan Matthews 

Tipping perpetuates racism, classism, and poverty — let's get rid of it!

Brandon Ambrosino

Let them eat cosmopolitanism

Ryan Avent:

Mr Cowen's piece looks like an effort to guilt elites into abandoning a realistic view of the political economy of globalisation by charging them with nationalism. Either that, or he is expressing what are essentially plutocratic concerns, hiding behind the gentler cloak of egalitarianism.

Overruled

The Economist

Meet Rutherford: The surprisingly durable American habit of naming kids after sitting presidents.

Ben Blatt

Dear inflation truthers: This is how averages work

Matt O'Brien

Is economics jargon distortionary?

Simon Wren-Lewis

The intellectual cesspool of the inflation truthers

Matt O'Brien

On the Difference Between GNP and GDP

Dan Hirschman

Why more companies want pensions off their books

Michael A. Fletcher

The most important chart nobody is talking about

Matthew Yglesias

Republicans want to control, not end, the Fed

Matt O'Brien

What Is "Subprime"?

Calculated Risk

Austrianism, wrong? Inconceivable!

Noah Smith

The free market is an impossible utopia

Henry Farrell

7 reasons the gold standard is a terrible idea

Matthew Yglesias

Has the Beveridge Curve Shifted?

Murat Tasci & John Lindner

Debt Shall Have No Dominion

Paul Krugman

We Didn’t Build That

David Weigel

How the boring Highway Trust Fund became the newest stage for GOP antics.

What the Beveridge Curve may tell us about the U.S. labor market

Nick Bunker

A three-headed hydra

The Economist

Measuring inequality

How long can the GOP last as the cranky oldster party?

Matthew Yglesias

Debt- and deficit-to-GDP dynamics

The FRED Blog

How conservatives won with Obamacare

Ezra Klein

In search of search theory

John Quiggin

The Monetary Fever Swamps

Paul Krugman

Brookings: One political party is actively working to make government fail (guess which one!)

Christopher Ingraham & Tom Hamburger

New Tool from Atlanta Fed: GDPNow

Bill McBride

7 papers, 4 government inquiries, 2 news investigations and 1 court ruling proving voter fraud is mostly a myth

Christopher Ingraham

Flows From Unemployment to Employment & Extended Unemployment Insurance

Robert Waldmann

Why I'm tired of hearing about 'that' civil rights movement

John Blake

The spontaneous combustion theory of inflation

Greg Ip

Donors Give More When They Have a Sense of Belonging

Robert Shiller

These Ages of Shoddy

Paul Krugman

Why printing more money could have stopped the Great Recession

Timothy B. Lee

The return of ‘47 percent’ and the endless political class war

Paul Waldman

The Great Disinvestment

Paul Krugman

"I Thought I Could Swing It": The Strange Life and Presidency of Silent Cal

Anthony Bergen 

Mapping international data

The FRED Blog

A Few More Thoughts on the Ex-Im Bank

Jared Bernstein

The Tragic Success of Freedom Summer

Josh Zeitz

Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby and the Decay of Welfare Capitalism

Brad DeLong

The economy’s troubling double standard for black men

Jonnelle Marte

Austrian Economists, 9/11 Truthers and Brain Worms

Noah Smith

Trick or Tweak

Paul Krugman

Oldies But Goodies

Paul Krugman

63% of Americans believe 'blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition'

Max Fisher

Demographics: Prime and Near-Prime Population and Labor Force

Bill McBride

A black man with a college degree is as likely to be working as a white college dropout

Danielle Kurtzleben

Moaning Moguls

James Surowiecki

More than three quarters of conservatives say the poor “have it easy”

Christopher Ingraham

Yes, if You Cut Taxes, You Get Less Tax Revenue

Josh Barro

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

Nick Hanauer

Why free parking is bad for everyone

Joseph Stromberg

40 maps that explain World War I

Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias

Why Government Pension Funds Became Addicted to Risk

Josh Barro

Wall Street is talking about inflation, but betting against it

Matthew Yglesias

The Value of a First Down

Chase Stuart

Chris McDaniel Thinks Winning With Black Votes Is Somehow Illegitimate

Jamelle Bouie

The war dividend

Ryan Avent

The spontaneous combustion theory of inflation

Greg Ip

Is it secular or is it stagnation?

Greg Ip

Understanding the New Classical revolution

Simon Wren-Lewis discusses the emergence of the New Classical School. This led to a number of good follow-on posts.

Mark Thoma added his take.

Paul Krugman weighed in.

Noah Smith brought it up to today.

America As A Lousy Exporter

Paul Krugman

How big is the federal government?

FRED Blog

Sympathy for the Trustafarians

Paul Krugman

Rental home shortage is America's next housing crisis

Sober Look

A lose-lose proposition

The Economist

The comovement of investment and GDP

The FRED Blog

21 charts that explain how the US is changing

Danielle Kurtzleben 

Thoughts on Robert Skidelsky’s Manifesto for the Reform of the Anglo-Saxon Economics Curriculum

Brad DeLong

Recent declines in labor force participation are not driven by discouraged workers

Sober Look

Why We’re All Crony Capitalists, Like It or Not

Neil Irwin

The Wonking Dead

Paul Krugman on the Commonwealth Fund's healthcare report and zombie ideas.