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The news from tonight's WSJ web site is that a deal has been struck to avoid the "fiscal cliff."  As previously predicted, it...

And I don't mean Obama's mideast policy, whatever that is; I can't figure it out. I am talking about the Fed's latest Quant...

One of my favorite economists and bloggers, John H. Cochrane , argues against the gold standard in today's WSJ . Let's start by clea...

Update at bottom. The leader in the most recent issue of the Economist questions Europe's collective will to defend the euro.  The re...

The WSJ headline today, Global Price Fears Mount , signal more risk to the economic recovery. Steel prices are rising as the price of raw m...

Michael Kinsley, of all people, has a very interesting article on the possibility and danger of inflation. I say surprisingly because, in ...

The nation is struggling with recovering from the current recession, which recovery does not seem assured. However, thinking longer term, I...

The Senate passed Obama's budget 55-43 today. After eight years of spending excess under Bush, the Democrats are going piling in for se...

### Current Cost of War in Iraq The little clock you see is from Zfacts, showing the current estimated cost of the war in Iraq based on co...