I’ve been doing a slow burn about the New York Times coverage of the issues facing the American economy. They have run two spectacularly stupid pieces, very prominently, in the past week. Here is the first. With a headline, “The Mirage of a Return to Manufacturing Greatness,” reporter Eduardo Porter puts forth the proposition that […]…
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Wall Street Journal Does An Ideological Hatchet Job
Author Antoine van Agtmael and journalist Fred Bakker have a new book out entitled, “The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are The Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation.” This is a familiar theme to me because I was the editor of the 1992 Business Week cover story that discovered the phenomenon, entitled simply “Hot Spots.” […]…
Our Collective Amnesia on Trade
I see that trade has emerged as an issue in the presidential campaign. How droll. It’s an issue I’ve been following ever since the mid-1980s. We Americans seem to have these spasms of consciousness when we arouse ourselves and confront a serious issue. What I don’t see mentioned in any of the current crop of […]…
Concrete Economics has a very important message
In this crazy political season, which seems increasingly permanent, two narratives are being established on both ends of the political spectrum and both are misguided. This new book, Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach To Economic Growth and Policy, has a very important contribution to make. On the right, the narrative that has been established for […]…
The New York Times Follows Me on Trump
It took the New York Times two weeks to come up with their equivalent of my Mar. 2 blog on the five things Trump gets wrong about China. In their piece today, “China Trade: A Reality Check,” the Times came up with four items and they were not all the same as mine. But the […]…
