Bad economic ideas can have a frustratingly long shelf life. Amid surging consumer and producer prices, the apparent tradeoff between inflation and unemployment has become a hot topic. There’s just ...
The financial and economic crisis that pushed the world economy to the brink of collapse in September 2008, and created sustained mass unemployment in the United States and Europe, came as an almost ...
Washington may not have an interest in economic orthodoxy, but Econ 101 sure has an interest in Washington and its choices. That reality should inform the 2022 decisions of policymakers, as well as ...
Rick Emerson, author of Zombie Economics, says some New Year's Resolutions really should start now! You'll find more information the Zombie Economicswebsite. "The Resolution Starts Now": Dealing with ...
WASHINGTON -- The State of the Union address was not, I'm sorry to say, very interesting. True, the president offered many good ideas. But we already know that almost none of those ideas will make it ...
Brian Lehrer: Brian Lehrer on WNYC. Now we'll do a little remote learning with Dr. Paul Krugman Economics' Professor and New York times columnist and author of the book, Arguing with Zombies: ...
The good news first: People are finally admitting that austerity measures are not working. Now the bad news: There seems to be little prospect of a near-term course change. This was the month the ...
Rick Emerson, author of Zombie Economics, stopped by with helpful tips on how to teach kids about money. 1) Start talking about it early. There's an old saying that when it comes to discussing "the ...
Behind the implosion of British Prime Minister Liz Truss lurks a question. If her insistence on huge tax cuts doomed her, does that mean the era of the tax cut zombie is finally coming to an end? For ...