Economists for Obama

We had a good run with this blog in 2008 and enjoyed the feeling that our small efforts to consider the substance of economic policy may hav...

Intrade  now shows a 67% probability of Obama re-election, up from 58% just 5 days ago.  If present trends continue, his odds will reach 1...

That's what I have to say about President Obama's capitulation to the hostage-taking ways of congressional Republicans. I suppose I ...

Readers will have noticed that with our main mission accomplished, we've largely retired from the econ4obama blogging to focus on our pr...

Simon Johnson makes a very compelling case in his analysis of the crisis during his appearance on the Bill Moyers Journal . The world has tu...

The video is well worth watching. Great to see that he's finally going full throttle on this. There's no time to waste.

Just a quick announcement: taking advantage of falling prices, I've opened a new shop, over at  http://jonahgelbach.blogspot.com/ . Not ...

This was from Wednesday night at the DC Armory, during the final official inaugural event: A couple clarifications: 1) Neither I nor any of ...

From this morning, here's a good discussion on the stimulus in a radio interview which includes James Galbraith. In many ways I think o...

Two aspects of Obama's economics and other early appointments and pronouncements have troubled me for some time but this afternoon's...

While I was somewhat disappointed that Summers won't be tapped to run Treasury, I'm very relieved that it will be Geithner. Jeff Fra...

Since Jonah posted about Will.i.am's new song, I thought I'd share as well. I put on Peter Gabriel's "Us" (link is t...

Jeff Frankel bets Obama will pick Summers for Treasury. I know there are many in the progressive blogosphere with strong negative feelings...

There are many great sites out there celebrating President-elect Obama's victory. Here's one of my favorites: professional photograp...