I think Paul Krugman touches a nerve today. So it’s worth passing along. His op-ed today points at the heart of our current problems. This is a theme I have been bashing away at myself. Perhaps not so eloquently. The stark contrast between the fortunes of Romney Senior and Romney Junior stand as vivid reminders […]

Quick question: will the discovery of the Higgs Boson, announced this week, end up being bad for economics? Think about it. Economics has suffered enough at the hands of mathematical adepts who praise elegance over reality and prefer the idealism of their models to the down and dirty stuff of actual economies. Not that math […]