Greg Ip

Several economists and papers in recent months suggest that labor share’s of income hasn’t really been on a steady downtrend.

The Federal Reserve, everyone agrees, can boost growth in the short run. But can it do it over the long run? This once heretical concept is the latest argument in favor of the Fed taking its time about raising interest rates.

No country in the world today operates on the gold standard. That might change if some Republican presidential candidates have their way.

Legislating a rule doesn’t do away with discretion, Greg Ip says, but makes it more likely discretion will be exercised only after the rule has failed, perhaps at great economic cost.

Helicopter money merges QE and fiscal policy while, in theory, getting around limitations on both. If this sounds too good to be true, it’s because usually it is. That doesn’t mean it ought to be taboo, Greg Ip says.

If workers lose their jobs to imports and central banks can’t bolster domestic spending enough to re-employ them, a country may be worse off, Greg Ip explains

Chief economics commentator Greg Ip explains why ​the arguments against raising the inflation target six years ago no longer apply.