Buying A Car? Avoid These Wrong Turns

Fortunately, a few simple steps can help ensure your car buying experience is a great adventure that doesn't turn into a detour to fin...

Eight Secrets To Safely Buying A Car Online

(ARA) - The test drive is an important part of car shopping. Taking a car for a spin before you buy it is a great way to get to know the ...

The Best Vehicles To Fit Your Needs

(NAPSI)—The next time you're in the market for a new car or truck, you may wonder what's hot and what's not. What seals the de...

The Canadian Black Book Rates Vehicles With Best Trade-in Value

(NC)—Buying Japanese autos continues to be a good bet, but when looking for a vehicle that will bring you a consistently higher trade-in v...

Money Saving Checklist For Buying A New Car

(NC)—Either way you slice it, new or used, a vehicle is a big purchase. Experts advise to take the time necessary to understand exactly wh...

Taking A Test Drive: Do It Right

(ARA) - When shopping for a new or used car, the test drive is an essential part of the process. While the test drive may be exciting, ex...

What You Need To Know When Buying A Used Car

(NAPSI)—Buying a used car is becoming an increasingly common practice. In fact, it's estimated that just over three used cars are now ...

Five Must-haves For Your New Truck

(BPT) - With a brand new truck decorating your driveway, you've probably got plenty of ideas of how you're going to use it for tow...

Spring Car Shopping? Take Care Of Financing First

(BPT) - Auto shows dotting the country paired with rising temperatures leave many people longing for a new car or truck. But purchasing a ...

How to Get People to Get Along

Click here to read my column in Sunday's New York Times .

A Reading List

Every few years, I teach (in addition to ec 10) a freshman seminar for about a dozen students. The seminar is essentially a book group for s...

What I did last night

Lady Gaga performed at Fenway Park yesterday (and the day before). Apparently, she is the first woman ever to headline an event at Fenway. I...

News from Amazon

Source . To users of my favorite textbooks: Thank you!  Have a great semester.

What Moderates Believe

I much appreciated today's column by David Brooks , though he seems to be describing center-right moderates more than center-left modera...

Macro Musings

You can hear me interviewed by David Beckworth here .

Why Health Policy is Hard

Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .

Does this make my Hamilton tickets a deductible business expense?

Economic Lessons from the Musical Hamilton , by Matthew C. Rousu and Courtney A. Conrad, discusses how the great musical can be used to teac...

CEA Chairs on Steel Tariffs

Here is the letter and here is a story about it .

Report from the NFF

It is now that time of year when I am enjoying the Nantucket Film Festival. My wife and I today saw  The Big Sick . Despite the not very ent...

Hamilton Tickets Redux

James Stewart takes a look at theater tickets on Broadway, a topic I discussed last year .  I love his ending: Dynamic pricing and super-pr...

Advice for Young Economists

Economists for Hassett

An open letter supporting Kevin Hassett's nomination as CEA chair .

On Taxes and Deficits

Click here to read my column in Sunday's New York Times .

A New Mankiw Publication

This one I am particularly proud of, though I cannot claim to fully understand it.

Why people prefer unequal societies

A friend points out that this paper is related to some themes  I have written about .  The abstract (emphasis added): There is immense conc...

Adverse Selection in Practice

This article  about genetic testing presents a great example of adverse selection: Pat Reilly had good reason to worry about Alzheimer’s dis...

How Best to Tax Business

Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .

How Not to Promote Education

Today's column by David Brooks is excellent .

A Proposed Regulation

The story about United dragging a passenger off an overbooked plane highlights how crazy the current system is.  I would not go so far as to...

Is something wrong with macro?

A thought-provoking essay by Ricardo Reis .

The Rich Aren't Getting Richer

This  paper  by Fatih Guvenen and Greg Kaplan is worth a read by anyone interested in inequality trends.  An important excerpt: Since 2000, ...

My Conversation with Bill Kristol

Here .  It is a bit over an hour.

The Myth of Stagnant Income

This paper by Bruce Sacerdote is worth noting: Despite the large increase in U.S. income inequality, consumption for families at the 25th a...

How the heck did they choose that name?

If anyone knows why this GPS car tracker has the name it does, please let me know.

Economics Teaching Workship

I will be speaking at the University of Kentucky Economics Teaching Workshop on April 22.  If you are interested in more information, click ...

A Guide to the GOP Tax Plan

Tax policy nerds will enjoy this detailed and thoughtful discussion of the proposed Brady-Ryan tax reforms by University of Chicago law pro...

Econ 101 for Potus 45

Click here to read my column in Sunday's NY Times .

An Odds-On Bet

According to the betting odds over at Ladbrokes , President Trump is more likely to resign or be impeached than he is to serve a full term.

Swagel on Tax Reform

My old friend Phill Swagel has good things to say about the Brady-Ryan tax reform .

Three Cheers for Kevin Hassett

Numerous news reports suggest that President Trump will tap Kevin Hassett to chair the Council of Economic Advisers.  This would be an excel...

You have got to be kidding me

If I did not know the source , I might have thought that this report was from The Onion : The Trump administration is considering changing h...

The Path Ahead on Climate Change

Click here to read an article in today's  NY Times  that I coauthored with Martin Feldstein and Ted Halstead.

Macro/Finance Summer Camp

Grad students and young faculty with interests in macro and finance should consider this opportunity .

Policy Summer Camps

Undergraduates with interests in public policy should consider this opportunity and this one as well .

Econ Theory Summer Camp

Graduate students with an interest in economic theory may be interested in considering  this opportunity .

Good News at Harvard College

The Crimson reports: Economics 10b: “Principles of Economics” is the most popular course in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the fourth...

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

My friend Joshua Gans alerts me to the following: The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto is offering to help scholars and s...

The Demise of the CEA?

This is not good news : CEA DOA?… MM hears there’s a chance Trump will simply pass on filling the CEA Chair job that at one point appeared ...

A Three-Point Tax Reform

Consider the following tax reform: 1. Impose a retail sales tax on consumer goods and services, both domestic and imported. 2. Use some of t...

The Euclidean Index

Motty Perry and Philip J. Reny propose a way  to rank economists by citations (published AER September 2016), and now RePEc implements it he...

You are not entitled to your own facts

Readers of this blog will surely want to know about a new website: econofact.org ,  a " non-partisan publication designed to bring key ...

Careless Headline Writing

I have noticed over the years that headline writers often try to make stories more sensational than they really are. This one at Yahoo News...

History of Econ Summer Camp

Graduate students with an interest in the history of economic thought should consider this opportunity .

Challenges Facing the New President

You can watch the AEA session I chaired by clicking here .

Parting Words

Here is the exit memo from CEA chair Jason Furman .