Peter Gordon's Blog

As the stimulus package comes into focus, we see the inevitable pork fattening. How could it be otherwise? The WSJ has cited the realizat...

We are in the age of mass higher education. It is not exactly an oxymoron, but it does create a variety of tensions and problems. I bristl...

Results for the 2007 American Housing Survey have just been released. For those who like commuting data, the AHS reports medians rather th...

A colleague called my attention to Expenditure patterns of young single adults: two recent generations compared ... "Differences in spe...

Michael Boskin wrote that "Investors Want Clarity Before Taking Risks". Tyler Cowen refers to the proposed "stimulus"...

Voter turnout in the U.S. Presidential election of 2008 was the highest in 40 years . In the recent presidential elections it had on occasi...

Many have noted that three of the four NFL play-off teams have logos that involve birds. But, writing in today's WSJ , Jerry Bowyer ( ...

The latest version of the stimulus proprosal includes $30 billion for transportation. Of that, about 30 percent is for transit, mostly the...

A Year Without "Made in China" One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy even includes a chapter titled "A ...

I could not resist reading The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm. The authors begin with this quote attribu...

I blogged about Kiva.org a few days ago. This video just came to my attention. It is for all those who are as new to this organization as...

Just as there is near-breathless anticipation of the Obama stimulus, there is also some skepticism from Greg Mankiw in today's NY Times...

I am a big fan of EconTalk with Russ Roberts. The weekly podcast interviews (old ones archived) are wonderful. If you are already a fan, ...

The front page of today's LA Times includes "State Closer to Tax Refund IOUs" . The front page of today's WSJ includes ...

California's roads are awful. Driving on many of them is painful and/or dangerous. It is not that there are not enough funds, but that...

In today's WSJ , columnist Jason Zweig writes "Investing Experts Urge 'Do as I Say, Not as I do' ... I once asked Harry Ma...

This Forbes piece cites research by Jeff Kenworthy on the cities with the World's 10 Best Commutes . They are (in David Letterman order...

I'm probably late to the party, but I just discovered kiva.org via a gift from someone dear to me. To those not yet into it, go to the...

Good news is obvious to some, but undervalued by most. What's different between now and the 1930s? A thousand things -- for starters. ...

Prof. Paul Krugman likes the proposed fiscal stimulus because it would fund "public goods." Well, not exactly. Almost all of the...