The Economy
Suppose Congress were considering a bill that would do the following: either your employer must double your wage or fire you.
Professor Zvi Bodie, my long-time friend and Boston University colleague, has long been an avid proponent of I-bonds, introduced by the...
The Federal Reserve System is paying banks not to lend money under an Obama era policy. Banks can often do better holding reserves on...
Most discussions of income inequality implicitly assume that individual preferences have virtually no effect on the outcome. In fact,...
By John Goodman Posted on Townhall.com, December 2015 One of the most intriguing movies I’ve seen in a long time is The Big Short. It’s...
By Thomas Saving & Phil Gramm Originally posted at WSJ, October 2015 The Federal Reserve enjoys extraordinary independence from the...
By John C. Goodman Originally posted on Forbes, September 2015 I believe the time has come for the Nobel Prize committee to consider...
By John C. Goodman Originally posted on Forbes, September 2015 Until we entered the Great Recession, most economists regarded Keynesian...
By John C. Goodman Originally posted on Forbes, September 2015 What we call the Reagan Revolution was not just a US phenomenon. Beginning...
By John C. Goodman Originally posted on Forbes, September 2015 As Americans celebrated the Labor Day weekend, nearly 94 million people of...
“Money matters, beyond the impact on interest rates. But we don’t make any assumption about the stability of V (unlike traditional...
“Paul Krugman was the one that said 2013 was a test of market monetarism. He’s the one who said it was a test of whether monetary policy...
This New Republic essay proposes a radical reform of our banking system: all credit market institutions would get out of the business of...
Interview with Larry Kotlikoff. Author of “Jimmy Stewart Is Dead” from Daniela Guernica on Vimeo.