There are numerous headlines showing the surprising recovery of the Russian ruble against the US dollar and the euro.
Noah Smith serves as interlocutor in “Interview: Arvind Subramanian, former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India” (Noahpinion, April 1, 2022).
The invasion of Ukraine, the spike in inflation and the risks of supply shortages have made some politicians dust off some of the worst economic ideas in history: Autarchy and protectionism.
One of the frustrations of the modern US economy is that it costs money to make payments. Credit cards have fees.
Most people don’t have a clear intuitive grip on numbers that are either pretty small or pretty large.
When inflation first started kicking up its heels last summer, there was a dispute over whether it was likely to be temporary or permanent.
A few parts of this half-hour interview on “The Current and Future of Econometrics” with Jeffrey Wooldridge, conducted by several questions for a nonprofit called SciEcon-AMA (of which I have no knowledge), may be more accessible to researchers in of that blend of economics and statistics known as “econometrics.”