FSG OUTLOOK

Interesting stuff from Brad DeLong​, possibly explaining much of the last decade of economic weirdness.

Future scenarios require a past, because there's no data about the future.

Some perspective from 93 years ago on Greece threatening not to pay back its monstrous debt to German and other banks.

Opposition to proven preventive measures is not a left-right issue - and metaphorically, it also affects a lot of businesses. 

In the past few days, a mighty attempt has been made by various Media Creatures to shoehorn a controversy over a measles outbreak and non-vaccination of children into yet another left-right bipolar fight.

A Greek election may offer a glimpse of the future - or a brief detour to a failed past.

This past Sunday, Syriza, the Coalition of the Radical Left, won a large victory in Greek parliamentary elections over the main establishment parties, the center-right New Democracy party, led by Andonis Samaras, the Movement of Democratic Socialists, led by George Papandreou, and the already shriveling Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), recently led by Evangelos Venizelos, and founded by Papandreou's grandfather. 

2015 is starting out as a year of unexpected paradoxes and amusing contradictions.

Steven Johnson's How We Got to Now - and why we might not get to Then.

Why torture almost certainly can't work in the real world.

What's not to like about the dramatic fall in world oil prices?  Here are some things to watch.