Opinion

It’s only right that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s evolving canine scandal should focus on Cricket, the 14-month-old wirehair pointer that Noem shot to death because Cricket was a bad girl. It was Cricket, after all, who took the bullet. Cricket’s bizarre manner of death, at the hand of a caretaker who allowed the puppy to wreak havoc and then made her pay for it, is relayed in a book ...

Seattle Times editorial board

More than 30 years ago, economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper on what they called “macroeconomic populism.” Their motivating examples were inflationary outbreaks under left-wing regimes in Latin America, but it seemed clear that the key issue wasn’t left-wing governance per se; it was, instead, what happens when governments engage in magical thinking. Indeed, even at the time they could have included the experience of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, which killed or “disappeared” thousands of leftists but also pursued irresponsible economic policies that led to a balance-of-payments crisis and soaring inflation.

Head-shakingly ridiculous describes the reactions of some attendees at a recent professional development workshop on the Clean Buildings Act.

Republicans can do better than Bird

I was born in Britain. When I took my naturalization test to become a U.S. citizen, one of the civics questions asked was: “What is the economic system in the United States?”

If you can’t pay, park the car

AARP tax help for all

If I were a mystery novelist instead of an economist, I’d call it “The Case of the Missing Workers.”