Investors are gloomy due to high volatility in crude oil markets and the cloudy economic outlook.
For some decades now, the world has been following the patterns of a demographic transition with life expectancies rising and birth rates falling, as we head for a world where the elderly are a much larger share of the global population.
The European Union has announced strict “energy efficiency” consumption reduction measures to cut 15% of gas demand as Russia threatens to shut down gas supplies.
Noah Smith interviews Leah Boustan about her research on various aspects of immigration at his Noahpinion website.
Alan Blinder offers some meditations on the interaction between economists and politicians in “Beyond the `Lamppost Theory’ of Economic Policy” (Chicago Booth Review, August 1, 2022).
The western United States has experienced some extraordinarily large forest fires in recent years.
Emmanuel Macron secretly helped Uber while he was France's Minister of the Economy.