Gordon's Notes

The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

Fourteen  months ago I wrote that Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy . That one might rank up with my Peak Oil prediction . I’m really...

From today’s NYT Health section: Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans. Gina Kolata Nov 2, 2015 … middle-aged white American...

Donald Trump as the voice of the non-college 50% . TNC on the mass (black) incarceration society - and reparations . Hundreds of colleges p...

I’m a liberal of Hume an descent, and I’m a fan of Donald Trump. No, not because Trump is humiliating the GOP, though he is. Of course I en...

Stratchery claims retail investors are shielded from latest tech bubble because MegaCorp and Finance are buyers, not retail investors . But...

I first published a Google Quick, Sick and Dead list in January 2009 , at the dawn of Dapocalypse . This was six months after the Battle of ...

Thirteen years after the first crash of the post-disruption era  the glory days of 1996 are a fading memory. Most people under 40 do not rem...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

I tend to think bad driving is contagious. Not contagious as in passed from parent to child , but contagious as in a short-lived virus passe...

Felix Salmon pins the JP Morgan debacle on the CEO - Jamie Dimon . Dimon supported Ina Drew's transformation of corporate "check...

In the 90s we excoriated Greenspan for presiding over the dot-com bubble . Why didn't he include bubble management in price stabilizatio...

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Shelley Cleaning spam out of my Yahoo email (it's sp...

After 1973, and especially after the early 1980s, productivity gains went towards the 1%. Media male compensation in particular went flatlin...

My, oh, my, it's still a whitewater world . Ezra Klein tells us ... America’s top export in 2011 is refined fuel ... ... UC San Die...

There is enormous, incomprehensible, wealth in the world. Increasingly, across all nations, it is concentrated in the hands of fewer and few...

Krugman tells us Germany and the EU must bail out Greece lest the entire EU crash and burn. Germany is unenthusiastic. Michael Lewis makes ...

Krugman delivers an astonishing opinion, almost as a footnote to a blog post ... Peripheral Stories - Krugman ... And I spent part of yes...

Do the great stagnation failures of the research enterprise and the modern publicly traded corporation have the same roots? Are not both ...