Stories by Noah Smith
The list of people calling for antitrust action against Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and other companies is growing.
Updated 09 Apr, 2018 08:44am
Despite sky-high housing prices, Silicon Valley remains the vital center of the US tech industry. Once an industry...
Published 25 Mar, 2018 06:12am
Web use can give retailers clues about which customers to charge more
Published 19 Mar, 2018 07:03am
Workers in rich countries where routine jobs were more common were hit harder by both free trade and the advent of...
Published 03 Oct, 2017 07:07am
Why the divergence between the ‘soft’ numbers of confidence surveys and the ‘hard’ numbers of the real economy?
Published 03 Jul, 2017 06:59am
It certainly looks as if the World Bank is in need of great change. And the problem goes far beyond poor communication
Published 05 Jun, 2017 07:00am
Manufacturing is in bigger trouble than the conventional wisdom would have you believe.
Updated 03 Apr, 2017 08:21am
The entrepreneurial dynamism of immigrants is needed to fight the decrease in new-business formation.
Updated 26 Mar, 2017 08:25am
Many of the diseases in our economy can probably be traced, at least in part, to the problem of market concentration.
Published 20 Feb, 2017 07:18am
“Just finance it!” This has been the advice that the US has given to young people for decades now. We borrow...
Published 22 Jan, 2017 06:55am
NEW YORK: On June 23, Britain will vote on whether to withdraw from the European Union. This is a momentous ...
Published 10 Apr, 2016 06:27am
NEW YORK: Last week, we were treated to a bout of speculation that Shigehisa Takada, chief executive officer of...
Published 07 Feb, 2016 06:49am
NEW YORK: With the US economy mostly recovered from the Great Recession, arguments about monetary policy have died...
Published 07 Feb, 2016 06:49am
Instead of looking at the amount of credit, maybe we should look at the price, quality of credit to forecast recessions.
Updated 31 Jan, 2016 12:24pm
The initial shock from the oil collapse might be negative, but will be outweighed by positive effects before too long.
Updated 17 Jan, 2016 12:00pm
'The focus on efficiency is a deliberate plot to keep resources in the hands of the wealthy.'
Published 12 Jan, 2016 07:06am
WASHINGTON: Economic inequality has skyrocketed in the US during the past few decades. That has prompted many calls...
Published 29 Dec, 2015 06:34am
NEW YORK: The immigration issue is fraught at the best of times, but especially so right now, with the rhetoric...
Published 27 Dec, 2015 06:15am
NEW YORK: On June 1, Japan’s new Corporate Governance Code went into effect. This was a big and important step in...
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:17am
NEW YORK: Celebrated economist Martin Feldstein in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that US wealth...
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:17am
