economics

Paul Krugman delivers punches and ripostes in an arcade-style news game

In light of the recent imposition of capital controls in Greece and the looming prospect of a Grexit, now seems like as good a time as any to talk about economists punching one another. He has the mien of a vituperative hobgoblin  Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, New York Times colum

The stock market’s roller coaster metaphor becomes literal thanks to VR

The stock market, which is a representation of transactions and not a physical reality, is commonly described as a roller coaster. The reasons for this are understandable: that fun thing you ride at the amusement park sounds way cooler than “the aggregation of buyers and sellers,” even if that’s wha