Can you make a dirty state embrace green legislation?
LAST week, Brookings scholars published the results of an effort to calculate the average expected cost of a climate change bill by metropolitan area. The authors noted that lower emission reduction costs tended to be found in the districts of [...]
Pretty please, can we have some inflation?
YESTERDAY, I linked to a Paul Krugman post in which he links to an old piece of analysis he wrote on the Japanese economy in 1998, in which he says:To preview the conclusions briefly: in a country with poor long-run growth prospects [...]
Something in the China-America relationship has to give
THESE stories are increasingly troubling:China denounced new U.S. anti-dumping duties on steel pipes as protectionist on Friday and opened an investigation into imports of U.S.-made automobiles, about a week before President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive for a visit. Beijing [...]
