American economist
Will Hild writes for Real Clear Policy about the Biden-Harris administration’s climate miscalculations. Environmental activists and left-leaning political bodies have long argued that climate risk is a form of financial…
Dominic Pino writes at National Review Online that some environmental activists seem to oppose “green” energy. It seems that the environmentalist movement in the U.S. believes that it’s possible to…
John Cochrane and Kevin Hassett write at National Review Online about the possible return of the dreaded “I” word. Many people today have little memory of the dangers associated with…
John Cochrane has posted a review of Why Are the Prices So D*mn High? by Eric Helland and Alex Tabarrok that highlights this revealing chart: The increase in health care…
Economist John Cochrane starts a recent blogpost by quoting a comment about the cost of regulation that appeared at Marginal Revolution (another economics blog). Here are some excerpts: From my time in…
John Cochrane, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, writes in his blog, The Grumpy Economist, how government mandated cross-subsidization negatively impacts the costs of health care in…
That’s a passage from a thought-provoking article at the Hill by economist John Cochrane: One hundred and four years ago this August, the war to end all wars broke out. It…
That’s the title of a WSJ opinion piece by economist John Cochrane. As he explains in the subtitle, “Honest subsidies beat cross-subsidies. They’d encourage competition and innovation.” Here’s an excerpt:…
“Half of the people who sign up for Obamacare (ACA) get a flurry of medical care, then drop out before a year is over,” Stanford economist John Cochrane writes in…
That’s the title of an interesting Wall Street Jounal article by Scott Atlas. Mr. Atlas begins by noting that: Republicans have now failed twice to repeal and replace ObamaCare. But their…
Mixing his metaphors, the redoubtable John Cochrane describes what he calls “the recipe”: 1) introduce strong supply and competition restrictions, usually to politically favored groups. Soon, however, those groups start charging higher…
Lawrence Kudlow‘s latest column at Real Clear Politics focuses on the impact of a 2 percent economic growth rate. The good news is that the economy is growing at 2…