published Aug 23rd 2016, 4:17 pm, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) — I miss 2011. Looking back, that was the heyday of economic blogging. The financial crisis had abated, but the recovery from the recession was disappointing, and everyone was talking about how to jump-start growth. Macroeconomics was important again.

published Feb 16th 2017, 1:15 pm, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg View) — The sorry state of American infrastructure is once again our focus. This time the peg is the Oroville Dam in California. It is the U.S.’s tallest dam, and it is in trouble. An emergency spillway was damaged, causing