Ryan Cooper

Ever since the Federal Reserve started its latest round of monetary stimulus, the scold brigade has struggled for something to find wrong with it. The latest entry comes from Henny Sender at FT: But there is little hard evidence of either a recovery in the broad economy or a connection between “quantitative easing” and any […]

David Dayen provides the following chart of unemployment in the Northeast region: As he says, this is is something of a mystery: I haven’t seen a legitimate explanation for this, and considering the impact on the economy as a whole, it would be good to see some resources devoted to it. I mean, there does […]

When Lyndon Johnson took power as Minority Leader in the Senate in 1953, he reasoned that the way back to the majority was to accumulate a good record of accomplishment to run on. He made the Senate work at an unprecedented level of efficiency, and supported President Eisenhower to such an extent that he and […]

I’ve been dutifully working my way through the first videos in the Marginal Revolution University course on development economics, and so far I’m rather pleased. The videos are quick, low-budget, and so far fairly skimpy on details, but they work fairly well nonetheless. Here’s a sample: As a free, quick-and-dirty introduction, it’s about as good […]

For your morning coffee today, check out this remix/mashup I made of a David Roberts TEDx climate talk. It’s best on HD, fullscreen, with some decent speakers: Any technical/aesthetic recommendations or advice welcome. @ryanlcooper

Recently we had an event at the New America foundation. The panelists included: Stephen Burd, a New America scholar, who explained his plan for abolishing the student loan repo man by adopting student loan repayment policies from Australia and the U.K.; New America education policy program director Kevin Carey, who discussed his recent tour through […]

We’ve been doing our college rankings issue since 2005, and it seems that we’ve managed to break into the national discourse a bit more than usual this year. US News recently published their rankings, and we even broke into that buzz a little, as folks compared their methodology to ours. Our friends over at MSNBC’s […]

In case you haven’t heard, we’re holding our annual College Guide event this Wednesday, October 3rd at the New America Foundation here in DC. We’ll be talking about college and the future of higher education policy. Stephen Burd will be there to discuss his piece on solving the student debt crisis, Kevin Carey will discuss […]

Jay Gould, via Matt Yglesias, pivoting off a report showing a rapid collapse of labor’s share of national income, rhapsodizes about how great full employment was back in the 90s: Look at that huge increase in the labor share from 1996 to 2000 and you’ll see what you really need to know. That’s not a […]

Monthly Editor-in-chief Paul Glastris was on C-SPAN this morning, talking about our massive piece on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: This is a quintessential Monthly topic. It’s technical, dry, and has little sizzle; it’s mostly about a bunch of bureaucrats starting new jobs here in DC. But it’s enormously important, and John Gravois through grinding […]