The Dangerous Economist

You can read about it at Financial meltdown: Hyman Minsky warned us this would happen Here is a key exerpt: "At its core, the Minsky vi...

The Wall Street Journal had an article recently called In Financial Crisis, Metaphors Fly Like Bad Analogies . I guess that when times are u...

That was a question asked on MSNBC’s Hardball by Chris Matthews earlier this year. I guess that since Obama taught law at the University Of ...

Normally I would have waited until Thursday or Friday to post, but there is alot going on. This link at Yahoo Finance has a good basic set o...

Here is a link to the news article Sexist Men Earn More Money: Study The full study is at Click here for the full study . Below are exerpts ...

These are all from the Wall Street Journal and give a good overview of what is happening. Shock Forced Paulson's Hand Stopping the Pani...

I usually don't just pass on what I saw at other blogs, especially since I have links to some goods ones. But this is such a big story t...

This may be a good example of the law of demand. Both of my macro (ECON 2301) sections recently read the chapter on immigration in the book...

That is the title of an article from MSN. Here is the link: What if we legalized all drugs? . (Hat Tip: Cliff Perez, a student in one of my ...

"the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal - including all...

Are they kidding? As soon as more people start moving to these places, costs go up and they won't be so affordable any more. I posted so...

This was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal. Here is the link: A New View On TV One of the big issues is what you stop doing or wh...

You can find out where they are by reading the following article: The 10 Most Affordable Housing Markets But if more people move to these ...

That is what a current government report says. It does not say, but most likely Texas is doing better than the rest of the country because o...

This is what economic theory predicts. With higher gas prices, people will seek a better deal somewhere. Here is the link to the article. El...

This was the topic of a recent article in the Houston Chronicle called Got $5 million? Consider yourself rich, experts say . Here is a brief...

It seems that when Democrats appear on the Colbert Report, they get an increase in campaign contributions. But this does not happen to Repub...

I am curious to see what my students think of this. But before I get to it, here are links to stories about "Obamanomics" (which a...

That is the title of an article that you can read here . People need to spend the money if the rebate is going to help the economy (so AD ca...

That was the title of an article in the Wall Street Journal on April 14. You can read it here . The wages farmers have to pay are rising, la...