Aaron Edlin points out that Microsoft continues to profit at its users' expense by creating incompatibilities, and suggests that you think twice before asking Santa for a new Windows machine with Vista and Office 2007.

Aaron Edlin recommends starting the rescue with containment --- unlimited deposit insurance and continuous access to funds --- and then moving to a well thought out plan to quash the financial flames.

The Treasury wants a blank check for $700 billion, at taxpayer expense; instead a businessman like Buffett should be given the job of making the taxpayers some money out of this mess, according to Aaron Edlin.

Aaron Edlin and Dwight Jaffee wonder: where has all the money and credit gone? Bank reserves at the Fed are monumental, and they suggest a tax on excess reserves.

The ideal economic stimulus would be something that should be done in any event --- making work pay with employee tax credits --- according to Aaron Edlin and Edmund Phelps.

The difference in unfunded obligations observed by Professor Chyla is explained by the difference between 75-year and infinite-horizon projections.

Proposition 87 reemphasized that Americans don't want the cost of driving to increase: Aaron Edlin suggests a way to reduce driving that may be more politically palatable.

Aaron Edlin confesses his selfish reasons to root for a collapse of housing prices and explains why many who worry should not.

Last week, on Wednesday September 17, 2008, the Bush Administration almost stumbled upon a way to eliminate the U.S. debt and even taxes. Aaron Edlin's ironic take on a world gone mad.

In a battleground state like Colorado or New Mexico, voting in the presidential election may be equivalent to giving $30,000 - $50,000 to others in expected value, and as such is an extremely efficient form of charity, according to Aaron Edlin, Andrew Gelman and Noah Kaplan.