Ed Dolan's Econ Blog

In response to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress has just passed a $2 trillion spending package, the Coronavir...

The Federal Reserve is the nation’s first line of defense against recession. Unlike the Congress, which controls taxes and government spen...

The novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 will harm the U.S. economy. That we know, even though, as of this writing, the effe...

Even if it's not this bad, we need to prepare Automation and artificial intelligence are increasingly disrupting the labor market....

A tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 56 percent of Americans favor a fully government-run Medicare for All insura...

Last April, Laurence Kotlikoff, together with three distinguished colleagues, published a long, highly mathematical working paper on how...

Tyler Cowen thinks that libertarians are waking up to the idea that the problem we face is not that the state is too big, but rather, tha...