CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST

Last week Germany announced that it would phase out its nuclear power plants over the next decade or so, and instead substitute green energy...

  Here's a gentle brain-twister:  Person A upgrades their car from one that gets 11 MPG to one that gets 13 MPG.  Person B upgrades ...

Last week, Cass Sunstein--a Chicago law professor and economist released a plan for regulatory reform .  Commentary on the proposals sometim...

Discussions of Social Security often focus on the a year like 2038, when the mid-range forecast of the Social Security actuaries says that t...

 David Hume (1748) wrote in An Enquiry Concerning  Human Understanding :  "A man who at noon leaves his purse full of gold on the pa...

If policy-makers use fiscal policy--that is, some mixture of government spending and tax cuts--to stimulate an economy in recession, at what...

Germany has announced plans to phase out all its nuclear reactors by 2022 .  It's worth taking this pledge with spoonfuls of salt. Swede...