Author : PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM

Drama. Major drama in political economics. In case you haven’t been paying attention: Gerald Friedman released some estimates about the Bernie Sanders growth plan with...

There’s a bubble in catastrophizing.  This is the tendency to always assume the worst.  Which is weird because the worst rarely plays out. In fact,...

There’s a big fuss on the political left over some claims that the Bernie Sanders campaign has made about potential future economic growth.  Paul Krugman...

Josh Brown has a very good post questioning an assertion by Ray Dalio regarding helicopter drops.  Dalio said: “We can say that the range will...

Here’s a very excellent Ben Bernanke blog post on interest on reserves.  In one section he trolls Joe Stiglitz a bit who stated that banks...

Paul Krugman has a post up highlighting some of the lessons we’ve learned since 2008.  He’s using a Liquidity Trap model, which, regular readers know...

Good question here from the Q&A section about negative yielding bonds: Hi Cullen. The Economist had a good article explaining why people buy negative yielding...

One of the consistent trends you’ll find in my econ and finance work is that I don’t think much about Central Banks. In other words,...

Last year I expressed the concern that the global economy of the future might be excessively influenced by a black box economy – China.  But as...

The story of the post-crisis economic period is simple: The housing boom left the household sector mired in a deep debt hole. This was further...