Today on TAP: The stock market, financial writers, and the Fed have one thing in common: excessive gloom.
inflation
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Europe’s Energy Crisis
Is there a solution anytime soon? And what are the spillover effects on the U.S. and the global economy?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Liz Truss Gets Her History Wrong
Britain’s new prime minister is no Margaret Thatcher. But can Labour do better?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Discount America
The new business model is to try to capture everyone who has fallen out of the middle class.
Posted inTAP
Climate Costs Are Not ‘Inflation’
Today on TAP: Climate disruption will raise prices to consumers. The Fed, seconded by orthodox economists, misunderstands what’s happening—needlessly adding to economic pain.
Posted inTAP
Powell Sides With the Inflation Hawks
Today on TAP: Reverting to type, the Fed chair ignores supply factors.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Marc Goldwein and the Limits of Deficit Scolding
On student debt cancellation, America’s foremost spending scold believes whatever he needs to believe to stop progress.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Big Bet on Natural Gas Is Blowing Up in the World’s Face
It’s not clean, it’s not cheap, and it’s not a bridge fuel to anyplace good.
Posted inTAP
Jason Furman’s Lazy Economics
Today on TAP: Why do reporters covering recession, inflation, and interest rates keep treating Furman as a sage?