J Bradford DeLong

If you want to know what is driving today’s China or America, Chinese-Canadian analyst Dan Wang’s new book is an indispensable guide

Trump’s ‘policy process’ cannot be carried out – such is life in the court of the mad king, and that is why US and the world are in serious trouble

Under Donald Trump, the US could soon find itself in a position analogous to post-Brexit Britain. The US president himself needs a regent, similar to the role Howard Baker played under Ronald Reagan.

Donald Trump’s principal purpose in issuing any pronouncement is to gain attention. Unfortunately, much of the US media seem uninterested in helping the public separate signal from noise

Trump and his entourage sought to orchestrate an unnecessary government shutdown. Grandstanding and performative gestures, not sound policy and basic competence, will be reflected in all decisions.

Why did Trump’s supporters overwhelmingly hold a distorted view of the country’s situation?

The US economy appears to be firing on all cylinders, even after a historically rapid cycle of monetary-policy tightening

Nothing played out the way neoliberalism’s advocates had envisioned, unless you count the sharp increase in wealth and income inequality over the past four decades

The writer clarifies the fundamental difference between today’s Democrats and Republicans

A recent book explains why big, complex social systems so often go off the rails