He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in ...

You have no doubt heard the well-worn dictum of Karl Von Clausewitz, the great Prussian military strategist, that war is the extension of politics by other means. Well, the same is true of economic ...

For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his ...

For Barack Obama, the Great Foreboding is both an enormous burden and a splendid opportunity. We are suffering from more than depressed retail sales, stock prices and production. Americans have ...

"Stagflation" is back in the headlines—but the term is being misused, and that's an important story. We're told by eminent newspapers and commentators that stagflation is the messy mixture of both ...

The writer sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation, and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years.