Even Socialists Know that Economic Planning Requires Market Prices

In a recent editorial at Jacobin magazine, it is argued that a “planned economy can actually work.” They start with something I have written about at least a dozen times recently: the definition of socialism. Let me not mince words: our ability to argue against the rising left’s socialism is going to depend on what exactly is being argued.

Hello Jerome Powell, We Have Questions

This is an open letter to Jerome Powell and the Fed.

Dear Mr. Powell,

In your March 8 speech on Normalization and the Road Ahead, you spoke of diversity, zero-bound interest rate problem, and the Fed’s path to normalization.

You noted “Makeup strategies are probably the most prominent idea and deserve serious attention,” while simultaneously admitting an “uncertain distance between models and reality“.

Christian Hubbs is a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University working in machine learning and optimization.