Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis

Russ Roberts argues that leverage—using “other people’s money”—was the central cause of the crash of 2008 and that a new approach to financial crisis management is necessary.

Moscow Has Ears Everywhere: New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya

Paolo Mancosu tells how Soviet pressure forced author Boris Pasternak to rely on smuggled royalties, how his companion and her daughter were sent to the Gulag for receiving them, and how Western literary figures intervened to win their freedom.

Currencies, Capital, and Central Bank Balances

Experts address big-picture debates affecting US and global monetary policy and apply cutting-edge economic research to the international monetary and financial system.

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News & Articles

Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II: The Partnership that Changed the World

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So You Want To Move To California And Buy A Decent Home? Here Is How Much You Need, And Why

In an earlier California on Your Mind column, I discussed how California is ranked 49th among US states in housing affordability, 42nd in public school quality, and 40th in tax relief, all of which negatively affect Californians, particularly those with school-age children.
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Ronald Reagan And Pope John Paul II: The Partnership That Changed The World

Former attorney general Edwin Meese III explains the relationship between President Reagan and Pope John Paul II and how their collaboration helped end the Cold War.
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The Farcical “Green New Deal"

This proposal is a grab bag of sophomoric policies designed to placate the radical left.
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