Robert's Stochastic thoughts

I think this is even more Noah Smith bait than Mark Thoma bait. First the twitter version of the Lucas critique. Lucas argued that if o...

I had forgotten this passage from The General Theory which may be Brad DeLong's favorite. Brad made very good use of Finally it is ...

Over a year ago, Noah Smith wrote a blog post with an excellent illustration of the first extremely unsuccessful attempted machine gun. Th...

I was sincerely shocked to read that the Japanese household savings rate was negative. "The savings rate in the year through March ...

Uh oh the usually solid front of Political Animals is divided. Current animal Ed Kilgore appreciates the DNC's appreciation of narrat...

This is an ultra pointless "someone is wrong on the internet" post. I think I read somewhere the suggestion that Keynesians had ...

With the sarcastic hyperbole that won him millions of fans (OK that makes me read everything he writes) Jon Chait declares "Poll Confi...

This post is a comment on Noah Smith's brilliant post "Why do non-experts think they know about macroeconomics?" which is, it...

I learn from this wonderfully titled wonderful post "Randomgate is why politicians are so boring" that Obama's gaffe in which...

Robert (not Paul) Waldmann wishes that he and not Paul (not Robert) Waldman had written And New York City, population 8.4 million, just w...

IIRC Wiki means quick in Hawaiian and it sure is. Kate Brown will be sworn in as governor of Oregon on Wednesday and the Wikipedia already ...

I don't dare click this link but I sure liked the pingback excerpt Pingback excerpt: […] down. Robert Waldmann, a blogger and remarkab...

Jon Chait has irritated me in two ways. First he doesn't post often enough. Time after time I surf to http://nymag.com/author/jonathan...

There are many opponents of fiscal stimulus that argue that it doesn't work (e.g. Robert Lucas (search for (Laughs.) & Eugene Fama ...

A ‘Rich’ Person Is Someone Who Makes 50 Percent More Than You ... @UpshotNYT NYT - Josh Barro - Jan 29 The first rule of modern tax ...

David Glasner has another interesting post questioning Milton Friedman's immense status. This time he asserts that the claim that the l...

Discussing Syriza, Frances Coppola quotes Keynes who she names only at the end of the column (although she knew and wrote that it would be e...

David Glasner has a very interesting post in which he discusses the question of whether David Hume came up with the argument that the long ...

I am actually reading "Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve" by James Forder . I started in the middle after searching for [Samu...

I typed something sloppily which stimulated Nick Rowe (see his comments here ) Actually I have a challenge. Name a Friedman Solow debate wh...