Perhaps my favorite paper delivered at the American Economics Association meeting—in part because it had no math—was a historical essay from Christina Romer and David Romer on “The Most Dangerous Idea ...

To all the football fans who believe coaches play it too safe on fourth down, meet your champion. He's Cal professor David Romer, and though he has never played organized football, his startling new ...

Imagine you’re a football coach. It’s early in the first half, and your offense has fourth and two at the opponent’s 10-yard line. What do you do? You kick the field goal, of course. But not if David ...

RENTON — The Seahawks needed about 18 inches. Instead, they lost more than two feet on a fourth-down play that kept them scoreless in the second quarter Sunday in Atlanta and had a city second ...

It’s been a busy three decades for the US financial system: 1) Banks with exposure to Latin American debt got into big trouble in the 1980s, 2) the 1987 stock market crash, 3) the S&L crisis and ...

Not a crock of anything you understand, we wouldn't be so rude here in the pages of a family magazine like Forbes. Rather, Christina and David Romer (Tim- correction here, I had him as Paul. Some ...