There is a bipartisan policy consensus among key elected officials in Minnesota: Let’s stiff 5.2 million Minnesota consumers — and hundreds of millions of others around our entire country — with higher prices for any product containing steel, and let’s…
Corporate merger bad for consumers
If federal regulators allow the proposed merger between chemical giants Dow and DuPont, it will underscore the fact that economic efficiency is not a high priority for either of the two major political parties right now. Just as with similar…
New Fed president tackles ‘too big to fail’
The Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee squeezed the trigger this month and raised its target for the Federal Funds rate, the interest rate banks charge one another for overnight loans of reserves, by a quarter of 1 percent. December 2015 marks…
Interview, Idaho Statesman: Why economist Ed Lotterman is pessimistic
After a November 2015 visit with readers and staff of the Idaho Statesman, the paper published an interview written by Zach Kyle.