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I went for a belated NYC run this morning, and am sorry to report that I saw very few black-clad anarchists. Also, the city is not yet in flames 1/

There are few things less important for the future of America right now than the stock market. But the disconnect between rising stocks and everything else is still interesting. So

Not that rationality has anything to do with this, but the GOP attack on CA really involves denial of plain facts. The state has problems — but not the ones

This is an interesting piece. But I'd say it implicitly gives Mnuchin far too much credit for the economic rescue of March, and also doesn't give the right take on

So Trump will try to make this election about big-city crime; basically he wants to run the Giuliani campaign of the early 1990s. And maybe he will succeed — but

The news is all Kalama, and rightly so, but let me counterprogram and talk about economics. Over the next few weeks I'm scheduled to talk everywhere and nowhere about the

I don't know if anyone else has said this, but payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. They won't do anything to solve the employment crisis, but will

More about the coronavirus relief debacle: What should Republicans have known, and when should they have known it? 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/republicans-unemployed-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgty

It seems to me that we need a new concept to discuss the Trump/GOP reaction to the coronavirus disaster. Everyone knows about the Big Lie, which is so outlandish people

30 million workers have had their financial lifeline cut off, and talks are stalled. But this isn't because "Congress" is dysfunctional; it's because *Republicans* are wedded to nonsense economics 1/

To make sense of the benefits disaster, you have to realize that Republicans don't understand that lack of sufficient demand can cause mass unemployment. I don't mean that they've rejected

A couple of months ago, before the great reopening disaster, I did several interviews in which I was asked about the tradeoff between the economy and fighting the pandemic. I