Multi-perspective walkthroughs of contested questions

“A government that issues its own currency can never run out of money. It can never be forced to default.”

“I and others warned from the beginning that the plan was too small.”

“The Fed controls a single short-term interest rate. Can one lever really steer a $25 trillion economy?”

“One monetary policy for Germany and Greece. What could go wrong?”

“Real Business Cycle theory says recessions are optimal responses to technology shocks. Most people find this... counterintuitive.”

“The models didn’t have a financial sector. The biggest financial crisis in 80 years wasn’t in the model.”

“Bitcoin isn’t money — it’s digital tulips.”

“The dollar backs 60% of global reserves. China and the BRICS want to change that. Can they?”

“Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.”

“A minimum wage is not a living wage...”

“A nudge is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way.”

“People who can’t define ‘blockchain’ invest their life savings in dog-themed coins. Efficient market hypothesis, meet reality.”

“Every economist agrees: price the externality. Every politician agrees: good luck getting elected on that.”

“You don’t comparison-shop for ambulances. But if healthcare isn’t a market, what is it?”

“Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.”

“No country in history has lifted more people out of poverty faster. But was it markets, or was it the state?”

“Between 1999 and 2011, the China shock destroyed 2.4 million American jobs. Comparative advantage promised everyone would win.”

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”

“Every billionaire is a policy failure.”

“Universal basic income: the idea that left and right both love and hate, for completely different reasons.”