The flurry of budget deficit reduction talks we've heard in the past three years was based on faulty research–an Excel spreadsheet mistake.

A computer glitch and an Excel mistake each made today's news.

What economists like to give (and get) as Christmas gifts. Spoiler alert: economists don’t think like the rest of us.

Economists are a notoriously self-interested bunch. But one British outfit is giving away its services.

The main economic data we've got this morning is actually about economists.

I remember vividly my first day taking a class on Soviet politics in college. The class began in August, 1991. The Soviet Union was collapsing…

Our afternoon session at the economic bloggers forum has been especially lively. That's because we're talking about how the hell we can get out of…

Our economic blogging conference has broken into smaller groups for lunch, and the session I'm attending is called "The Fate of Finance." The…

That's the title of the seminar I'm in right now at the Kauffman Foundation. It began with a speech from former Boston Globe writer David Warsh,…

At this economic bloggers conference I'm attending, we had a discussion last night about how no one in charge will say the word "nationalization." …