On Monday, I argued investment incentive policy is best understood within a political framework that takes seriously t...

Basel III has not been settled yet; the kinks are still being ironed out. And some observers, like Joseph Cotterill at Alphaville , aren...

Here's an interesting article on how an obscure provision in the U.S. tax code has caused two U.S. territories to go to the mattresses:...

A few days ago Yglesias wrote that China's domestic politics isn't as simple as many outsiders think: Chinese political institution...

Matthew Yglesias sees a bipartisan rationale for overhauling the American political system: In Canada, their health care system is more equ...

What caused the financial crisis? A new (to me) argument says it wasn't regulation. It wasn't greedy bankers. It wasn't predator...

Yesterday's announcement by the Obama administration that they "will order the firms that received the most aid to slash compensat...

The United States government hold large equity stakes in some financial firms. It has decided to punish those firms by heavily restricting t...

President Lula da Silva doesn't understand public choice theory. He also can't outsmart a cheeky Newsweek reporter : Newsweek : You ...

Last week I pointed to Yglesias not understanding basic public choice theory. Apparently several other people also noticed and responded wi...

Yesterday it was announced that 10 companies would be exiting the TARP plan, paying back with interest all the money borrowed from the gove...

Matthew Yglesias asks a question about the American government's willingness to pressure Israel into ceasing settlements in Palestinian...