by Andrew Moran | Aug 2, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
Keynesian darling Paul Krugman has a message for the American people: Does it really matter if everyone describes the US economy as being in a recession? Krugman is on tour to dispel the notion that the United States is in the middle of an economic downturn. However,...
by Andrew Moran | Jul 31, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
Before the latest developments in the current US recession are unveiled, let’s take a look at exactly what happened in the second quarter, according to the much-anticipated July 28 gross domestic product (GDP) report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)....
by Andrew Moran | Jul 26, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Good Reads, Opinion
The it-girl of Keynesian economics, Paul Krugman, has done the unthinkable: He admitted that he got it wrong on inflation. While the concession is welcomed, it is perhaps eight months too late as the usual suspects in today’s plethora of economic troubles have already...
by Leesa K. Donner | Jul 24, 2022 | Articles, Establishment Media, Good Reads, Opinion
There’s a saying that goes something like this: “An apology without change is just manipulation.” Reading the New York Times series of apologies by its columnists leaves the reader feeling that they are being played. Officially titled “I Was...
by Andrew Moran | Jan 3, 2022 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Opinion
In 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success, perhaps one of the greatest pictures ever made, Burt Lancaster’s powerful New York columnist character tells Tony Curtis, who spends most of the film doing his dirty work in exchange for space in a newspaper,...