I have just been sent a transcript of my interview on HARDtalk, done by Jane Ross, who (to quote her blog) is “a freelance editor specializing in personal story”. Jane has posted the transcript to her blog (“Steve...
Thom Hartmann is the most prominent of the very few progressive economic and political commentators in America. Wikipedia notes that “In 2008, 2009, and 2010, Talkers Magazine named Hartmann the tenth most important talk...
I gave two talks in Cambridge University on my recent trip to the UK. Since I was talking to academic audiences, these talks were rather more technical in nature than those I normally give. The two lectures are very similar...
The last two days have seen the latest monthly data on credit growth in Australia from the RBA, and the latest quarterly data on house prices from the ABS. Together they confirm trends that I’ve identified on numerous...
The Occupy Wall Street campaign is now in its 17th day–making it easily the longest political protest of the Global Financial Crisis. Unfortunately, even I wasn’t aware of it when I was in New York two weeks ago,...
My focus is and will remain on explaining how the crisis came about, but in the middle of the crisis, government policies have the potential to either lessen the crisis or make it more extreme. Two of the best commentators...
Recession Sessions is an album of economics-themed songs dedicated to the Great Recession. It’s pioneering the genre of “financial folk”, and raising money for the Somerville Homeless Coalition, a homelessness...
I recently fired a stray shot at Paul Krugman over his joke paper “The Theory of Interstellar Trade” (Krugman 2010), for which I have duly apologized. However in that apology I noted that Krugman has also recently...
A blog participant (Lyonwiss) recently made a comment about the general state of academic economics that was so “spot on” I wanted to share it more widely. I have of course followed the exact opposite of the...
Nadmierny poziom prywatnego zadłużenia, fundamentalna przyczyna kryzysu, zmniejsza się bardzo powoli. W Kongresie USA w ramach obrad specjalnej komisji ds. redukcji deficytu odbywa się debata na temat tego, w jakim...