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All of a Sudden, Economists Are Getting Real Jobs

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When fiscal policy lags, the one-two fiscal/monetary punch doesn’t land

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Trump’s “Obama founded ISIS” comments are outrageous. They’re also deeply ignorant.

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Where does the buck stop?

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Job volatility among races

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The Dirty Little Secret of Finance: Asymmetric Information

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Do DSGE Models Have a Future?

Olivier Blanchard

Hair Meets Heirs

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‘White Trash’ — The Original Underclass

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An Economics Lesson for Political Pollsters

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How fallen service members, and their families, became politically sacred

Sarah Wagner

Economics Without Math Is Trendy, But It Doesn't Add Up

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Sweden may have the answer to America’s gun problem

Tom Heberlein

An inconvenient iota of truth

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Can Government Raise Wages? It's Worth a Try

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A former CIA chief is calling Trump a foreign agent. This is how absurd the election is.

Zach Beauchamp

China built a giant traffic-straddling bus. We have questions.

David Roberts

Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars

David Roberts

I'm a pro-life Christian. Here's why I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.

Rachel Held Evans

A likely GOP Electoral College member threatens to withhold his vote from Trump

Andrew Prokop

If President Trump decided to use nukes, he could do it easily

Zach Beauchamp

The Unbundled City

Paul Krugman

The Lessons of the DNC Hack

Fred Kaplan

It’s much safer to back into parking spaces. Why don’t we do it?

Ben Yagoda

How are Milton Friedman's ideas holding up? Part 1

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Donald Trump’s slander of Captain Humayun Khan’s family is horrifying, even for Trump

Ezra Klein

Minsky’s moment

The Economist

The ‘smoking gun’ proving North Carolina Republicans tried to disenfranchise black voters

Christopher Ingraham

Answering the Hardest Question in Economics

Noah Smith

Foreign Governments Have Been Tampering With U.S. Elections for Decades

Josh Zeitz

Three-fourths of evangelicals support Donald Trump. Blame the "prosperity gospel."

Chris Lehmann

Secrets and agents

George Akerlof’s 1970 paper, “The Market for Lemons”, is a foundation stone of information economics. The first in our series on seminal economic ideas

  

The Economist

Trump is very worried about Chicago gun violence. His running mate’s lax gun laws don’t help.

German Lopez

The basic reason why there just isn’t enough decent housing for the poor

Emily Badger

The DNC Hack Is Watergate, but Worse

Franklin Foer

Donald Trump Wants to Politicize the Pulpit

Adam Chodorow

A popular conspiracy theory is spreading in the Trump family. It’s totally false.

Matt O'Brien

Economists Give Up on Milton Friedman's Biggest Idea

Noah Smith

A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die

Zach Beauchamp

The Vaccination Double Standard

Phoebe Day Danziger

The case for making Donald Trump America's first king

Timothy B. Lee

Why getting stuck without a job is mostly a matter of bad luck

Matt O'Brien

Donald Trump doesn’t want to make America great. He wants to make it afraid.

Ezra Klein

Melania Trump's plagiarism matters because it exposes Donald Trump's profound laziness

Matthew Yglesias

Donald Trump has no idea how to make America safe again

Matthew Yglesias