More Jonathan Chait: Paul Ryan has emerged from his long post-election period of repositioning, soul-searching, and secretly but not sec...

Jonathan Chait (This piece is adapted from Jonathan Chait's book, The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hij...

More Krugman on good health care news...Medicare is, perhaps not a "miracle," but in very good shape compared to the dire predic...

Krugman thinks it has : Republican ads denouncing health reform have been dwindling month by month.  The reason is fairly obvious, alth...

Simon Wren-Lewi s compares balanced budget fundamentalism to anti-evolutionists: Europeans, and particularly the European elite, find pop...

 Krugman @ NYTs: In recent decisions, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has made clear its view that corporations are peopl...

CEPR: A NYT article reported on a study from Russell Sage reporting that median household the study is that median wealth is down by a...

Teresa Tritch @ NYTs: The standard argument against a higher minimum wage is that it will lead to job loss as employers, unable to pay m...

 CNBC nutcase Rick Santelli loses it!

American Enterprise Institute economist James Pethokouko s calls out his fellow conservatives as inflation cranks:  ...

David Cay Johnston takes on the conventional conservative "wisdom" - using DATA! Dire predictions about jobs being dest...

 Professor Krugman on California's recovery from budget crisis as tax-cutting Kansas sinks: The states, Justice Brandeis famously p...

 Media Matters catches the current state of intellectual credibility among conservative economists: Heritage Foundation chief econo...

Uber-conservative "Red State" blogger Erik Erickson spills the beans on his party:  "I’m just not sure what the Republican...

Joseph Stiglitz @ NYT: AN insidious trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth aft...

From Politico: Memo: From Nick Hanauer To: My Fellow Zillionaires You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%e...

Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine exposes the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of "conservatism's" foremost alleged "...

Krugman @ NYT on the shame - or should I say "shamelessness" - of too many in his profession: The 2008 crisis and its aftermat...

Kathleen Geier outlines " What Piketty’s Conservative Critics Get Wrong" @ The Baffler: With his book Capital in the Twenty-Fir...

Annie Lowrey @ NYT: WASHINGTON — The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growt...

Political science Prof. Larry Bartels at WaPo : (Data from International Social Survey Programme; tabulation by Larry Bartels) ...

More Krugman on The Crazy: I can easily understand it when people don’t know the facts about economic statistics; you need a fair bit of ...

Krugman @ NYTs on The Crazy: “The facts have a well-known liberal bias,” declared Rob Corddry way back in 2004 — and experience keeps vin...

In what is beginning to sound like a "Dog Bites Man" story from the WSJ: The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. A  rece...

Martin Wolff reviews Thomas PIketty's opus @ The Financial Times . Read at link or below: French economist Thomas Piketty has written ...

Robert Kuttner has an excellent appreciation of the great critic of free market fundamentalism, Karl Polyani and his essential book, The Gre...

This is an essential insight, given the dominant narrative about marriage, single-parenthood and poverty rampant not just among the usual s...

Economic Policy Institute: (L)ong-term unemployment is elevated for workers at every education level… while there is considerable variatio...

High-frequency trading accounts for roughly half of all stock market volume in the United States. Michael Lewis' recent book on the gami...

David Dayen @ American Prospec t: Financial reformers in both parties have insisted for years that the largest banks remain too big to fai...

John Cassidy @ The New Yorker reviews the definitive new book on income inequality: In the stately world of academic presses, it isn’t o...

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi @ House of Debt: If you must know only one fact about the U.S. economy, it should be this chart: The ch...

Professor Krugman blogs this indictment of the Beltway, Business and Media Elites @ NYT . Millions of lives have been ruined by the cruelty ...

Mike Konczal @ TNR: "Our problem today was not caused by a lack of business and banking regulations,” argued Ron Paul in his 2009 m...

Matthew O'Brian @ The Atlantic: Are the long-term unemployed just doomed today or doomed forever? That's the question people are...