Author : TheMoneyIllusion

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn For readers who don’t already know this, my new blog is over at Substack: scottsumner.substack.com This will be my final Money Illusion...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn In the mid-1990s, the consensus view was that central banks should target inflation at 2%. Then in the late 1990s, a light...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn A recent Bloomberg article suggested that we may be moving toward a regime characterized by fiscal dominance, at least part of the...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Matt Yglesias directed me to this tweet: If you looked at certain polls, you’d think the economy was doing poorly. On the...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn I’ve been amazed by the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The most militarily expansionist leader since Hitler and Stalin starts a...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn There has recently been a lot of discussion about how all of the conspiracy nuts are moving over to the GOP, whereas...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn One of my biggest frustrations over the past 15 years has been the economics profession’s drift away from certain well established propositions,...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Brad DeLong directed me to a tweet that contained this intriguing graph: If you polled 51 million Americans and found that 50...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Here’s Richard Hanania: We can already see Republican candidates and institutions shifting over to Gribble messaging. The Heritage Foundation, once believed to...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The FT has a good article that might be seen as being tangentially related to my earlier post on lab leak vs....