# Columns and Talks **2025** - ["Six Predictions"](https://mankiw.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5931/files/2025-12/Six%20predictions.pdf), *Wall Street Journal*, 09/21/2025 - ["3 Experts on What Trump is Doing to the Economy"](https://mankiw.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5931/files/2025-12/3%20Experts%20on%20What%20Trump%20is%20Doing%20to%20the%20Economy.pdf), *New York Times*, 08/21/2025 - ["Firing the BLS commissioner will come back to haunt Trump"](https://mankiw.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5931/files/2025-12/Mankiw%20and%20Rouse.pdf), *The Washington Post,* 08/05/2025 - ["The Fiscal Future"](https://mankiw.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5931/files/2025-07/Feldstein%20lecture.pdf), The 2025 Martin Feldstein Lecture, 07/10/25 **2023** - ["Five Best: Economics Primers"](/file_url/336), *Wall Street Journal*, 06/03/23 **2021** - ["Can We Afford a Welfare State?",](/file_url/331) *New York Times*, 9/19/21 - ["The Biden Economy Risks a Speeding Ticket,"](/file_url/328) *New York Times*, 2/28/21 **2020** - ["The Double-Edged Sword of Low Interest Rates,"](/file_url/327) *New York Times*, 12/6/20 - ["Pay People to Get Vaccinated," ](/file_url/326)*New York Times*, 9/13/20 - ["C.E.O.s Are Qualified to Make Profits, Not Lead Society,"](/file_url/324) *New York Times*, 7/26/20 - ["He Said, He Said: Debating Two Possible Recoveries,"](/file_url/322) *New York Times*, 4/19/20 - ["Will the Economy Re-elect Trump? Should It?",](/file_url/321) *New York Times*, 3/1/20 **2019** - [" 'Republican Economist' Sheds a Party Label,"](/file_url/316) *New York Times*, 11/17/19 - ["Yang vs. Warren: Who Has the Better Tax Plan?", ](/file_url/315)*New York Times*, 9/29/19 - ["Yes, There Is a Trade-Off Between Inflation and Unemployment,"](/file_url/312) *New York Times*, 8/11/19 - ["The National Debt Is Still a Problem,"](/file_url/311) *New York Times*, 6/23/19 - ["Let's Keep the Federal Reserve Great,"](/file_url/309) *New York Times*, 4/14/19 **2018** - ["Four Questions for the Year Ahead,"](/file_url/304) *New York Times*, 12/30/18 - ["Surprising Truths About Trade Deficits,"](/file_url/303) *New York Times*, 10/7/18 - ["Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis,"](/file_url/302) *New York Times*, 7/29/18 - ["Why Aren't More Men Working?"](/file_url/301), *New York Times*, 6/17/18 - ["Reviewing the Tenets of Free Trade,"](/file_url/300) *New York Times*, 2/18/18 **2017** - ["Who Loses When Endowments Are Taxed?"](/file_url/299), *New York Times*, 12/24/17 - ["How to Improve the Trump Tax Plan,"](/file_url/298) *New York Times*, 11/5/17 - ["Getting Along by Getting Together,"](/file_url/295) *New York Times*, 9/10/17 - ["Why Health Care Policy Is So Hard,"](/file_url/294) *New York Times*, 7/30/17 - ["Cut Taxes, Sure. But Remember the Budget Deficit,"](/file_url/293) *New York Times*, 6/4/17 - ["How Best to Tax Business,"](/file_url/292) *New York Times*, 4/23/17 - ["Advice for Trump: Ask an Economist,"](/file_url/291) *New York Times*, 3/12/17 - ["A Conservative Case for Climate Action,"](/file_url/290) *New York Times*, 2/8/17 **2016** - ["Seeing Past the Trade Deficit Threat,"](/file_url/289) *New York Times*, 12/4/16 - ["$2,500: A Fair Price for 'Hamilton',"](/file_url/287) *New York Times*, 10/23/16 - ["Why Taxing Fairly Means Not Taxing Inheritances,"](/file_url/286) *New York Times*, 9/11/16 - ["Trade is Good, but Voters Aren't Buying It,"](/file_url/285) *New York Times*, 7/31/16 - ["The GDP and Its Discontents," ](/file_url/284)Review of The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making (and Unmaking) of the Modern World by Ehsan Masood, *Science,* 7/22/16 - ["One Economic Sickness, Five Diagnoses," ](/file_url/283)*New York Times*, 6/16/16 - ["The Economy is Rigged, and Other Presidential Campaign Myths,"](/file_url/282) *New York Times*, 5/8/16 - ["A Better Way to Grade Presidents,"](/file_url/278) *New York Times*, 1/31/16 **2015** - ["Three Reasons for Those Hefty College Tuition Bills,"](/file_url/277) *New York Times*, 12/20/15 - ["Uniting Behind a Divisive Health Tax,"](/file_url/276) (with Lawrence H. Summers), *New York Times*, 10/25/15 - ["Shifting the Tax Burden to Cut Carbon,"](/file_url/275) *New York Times*, 9/6/15 - ["The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America" by Arthur C. Brooks,](/file_url/274) *New York Times Sunday Book Review*, 8/2/15 - ["History Echoes Through Greek Debt Crisis,"](/file_url/273) *New York Times*, 7/19/15 - ["Retesting Congress in Free Trade 101,"](/file_url/271) *New York Times*, 4/26/15 - ["A Slippery New Rule for Gauging Fiscal Policy,"](/file_url/270) *New York Times*, 3/1/15 **2014** - ["One Way to Fix the Corporate Tax: Repeal It,"](/file_url/269) *New York Times*, 8/24/14 - ["Why Inheritance Is Not a Problem,"](/file_url/268) *New York Times*, 6/22/14 - ["Media Slant: A Question of Cause and Effect,"](/file_url/267) *New York Times*, 5/4/14 - ["When the Scientist Is Also a Philosopher,"](/file_url/266) *New York Times*, 3/23/14 - ["Yes, the Wealthy Can Be Deserving,"](/file_url/265) *New York Times*, 2/16/14 - ["Help the Working Poor, but Share the Burden,](/file_url/264)" *New York Times*, 1/5/14 **2013** - ["In Fed Policy, the Exit Music May Be Hard to Hear,"](/file_url/262) *New York Times*, 11/24/13 - ["Things Didn't Go as Planned,"](/file_url/261) *New York Times*, Sunday Book Review, 11/17/13 - ["From Summer Camp, a Parable for Washington,"](/file_url/259) *New York Times*, 10/13/13 - ["A Carbon Tax That America Could Live With,"](/file_url/258) *New York Times*, 9/2/13 - ["Budging (Just a Little) on Investing in Gold,"](/file_url/257) *New York Times*, 7/28/13 - ["Politics Aside, a Common Bond for Two Economists,"](/file_url/256) *New York Times*, 6/30/13 - [Graduation Talk at the Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School](/file_url/255), 6/1/13 - ["What Stock to Buy? Hey, Mom, Don't Ask Me,"](/file_url/254) *New York Times*, 5/19/13 - ["A Sustainable Budget Should Endure Any Storm,"](/file_url/253) *New York Times*, 3/31/13 - ["Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor and Your Economists, Too,"](/file_url/249) *New York Times*, 2/12/13 **2012** - ["Wishful Thinking and Middle-Class Taxes,"](/file_url/250) *New York Times*, 12/30/12 - ["Slugging It Out, Inside Obama's Mind,"](/file_url/288) *New York Times*,11/25/12 - ["Competition is Healthy for Governments, Too,"](/file_url/238) *New York Times*, 4/15/12 - ["Capital Gains, Ordinary Income and Shades of Gray,"](/file_url/235) *New York Times*, 3/4/12 - ["A Better Tax System (Assembly Instructions Included),"](/file_url/242) *New York Times,* 1/22/12 - ["Dear Mr. Bernanke: Please Tell Us More,"](/file_url/248) *New York Times*, 1/1/12 **2011** - ["Know What You're Protesting,"](/file_url/246) *New York Times*, 12/4/11 - ["Four Nations, Four Lessons,"](/file_url/244) *New York Times*, 10/22/11 - ["How to Make Business Want to Invest Again,"](/file_url/241) *New York Times*, 9/11/11 - ["What's With All the Bernanke Bashing?",](/file_url/247) *New York Times,* 7/31/11 - ["Seriously, Some Consensus About Health Care,"](/file_url/245) *New York Times*, 6/19/11 - ["If You Have the Answers, Tell Me,"](/file_url/167) *New York Times*, 5/7/11 - ["It's 2026, and the Debt Is Due,"](/file_url/169) *New York Times*, 3/27/11 - ["Emerging Markets as Partners, Not Rivals,"](/file_url/168) *New York Times,* 2/13/11 - ["How to Break Bread With the Republicans,"](/file_url/173) *New York Times*, 1/2/11 **2010** - ["The Blur Between Spending and Taxes,"](/file_url/170) *New York Times*, 11/20/10 - ["I Can Afford Higher Taxes. But They'll Make Me Work Less,"](/file_url/177) *New York Times*, 10/9/10 - ["A Course Load for the Game of Life,"](/file_url/175) *New York Times*, 9/4/10 - ["The Trilemma of International Finance,"](/file_url/243) *New York Times,* 7/11/10 - ["Crisis Economics,"](/file_url/172) *National Affairs,* Summer 2010 - "[Can a Soda Tax Save Us From Ourselves?"](/file_url/179)[,](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/Can%20a%20Soda%20Tax.pdf) *New York Times*, 6/4/10 - ["Much to Love, and Hate, in a VAT,"](/file_url/176) *New York Times*, 4/30/10 - ["Trying to Tame the Unknowable,"](/file_url/174) *New York Times,* 3/28/10 - ["What's Sustainable About This Budget?",](/file_url/171) *New York Times*, 2/14/10 - ["Bernanke and the Beast,"](/file_url/178) *New York Times*, 1/17/10 **2009** - ["Tax Cuts Might Accomplish What Spending Hasn't,"](/file_url/185) *New York Times*, 12/13/09 - ["Questions about Fiscal Policy: Implications from the Financial Crisis of 2008-2009,"](/file_url/181) Panel Discussion, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Policy Forum, 12/4/09 - ["Supply-Side Ideas, Turned Upside Down,"](/file_url/188) *New York Times*, 11/1/09 - ["Back in Demand,"](/file_url/186) *Wall Street Journal*, 9/21/09 - ["Why Health Care Will Never Be Equal,"](/file_url/183) *New York Times*, 9/20/09 - ["A Missed Opportunity on Climate Change,"](/file_url/182) *New York Times*, 8/9/09 - ["The Pitfalls of the Public Option,"](/file_url/189) *New York Times*, 6/28/09 - ["That Freshman Course Won't Be Quite the Same,"](/file_url/187) *New York Times*, 5/24/09 - ["It May Be Time for the Fed to Go Negative,"](/file_url/184) *New York Times*, 4/19/09 - ["Finding Messages in a Blueprint,"](/file_url/180) *New York Times*, 3/15/09 - ["It's No Time for Protectionism,"](/file_url/198) *New York Times*, 2/8/09 - ["Is Government Spending Too Easy an Answer?",](/file_url/195) *New York Times*, 1/11/09 **2008** - ["What Would Keynes Have Done?",](/file_url/192) *New York Times*, 11/30/08 - ["Memo to the POTUS-elect,"](/file_url/190) *New York Times*, 11/9/08 - ["But Have We Learned Enough?",](/file_url/197) *New York Times*, 10/26/08 - ["On Dividend Taxes, It's a Post-Partisan Race,"](/file_url/194) *New York Times*, 9/7/08 - ["What If The Candidates Pandered to Economists?",](/file_url/191) *New York Times,* 7/13/08 - ["The Problem with the Corporate Tax,"](/file_url/199) *New York Times,* 6/1/08 - ["The Wealth Trajectory: Rewards for the Few,"](/file_url/196) *New York Times,* 4/20/08 - ["](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/Beyond%20the%20Noise.pdf)[Beyond the Noise on Free Trade](/file_url/193),["](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/Beyond%20the%20Noise.pdf) *New York Times,* 3/16/08 - ["](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/My%20Birthday%20Wish.pdf)[My Birthday Wish: Not Burdening Our Children](/file_url/200),["](http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/files/My%20Birthday%20Wish.pdf) *New York Times,* 2/3/08 **2007** - ["How to Avoid Recession? Let the Fed Work," ](/file_url/207)*New York Times*, 12/23/07 - ["Beyond Those Health Care Numbers," ](/file_url/205)*New York Times,* 11/04/07 - [“One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax,” ](/file_url/203)*New York Times*, 9/16/07 - [“Fair Taxes? Depends What You Mean by 'Fair',” ](/file_url/201)*New York Times*, 7/15/07 **2006** - [“Raise the Gas Tax,” ](/file_url/208)*Wall Street Journal*, 10/20/06 - [“Dynamic Analysis," ](/file_url/204)*Wall Street Journal*, 7/26/06 - [“Mr. Paulson's Challenge,” ](/file_url/202)*Wall Street Journal*, 5/31/06 - [“Reflections on the Trade Deficit and Fiscal Policy,” ](/file_url/209)meeting of the American Economic Association, January 2006 - [“Repeat After Me,” ](/file_url/206)*Wall Street Journal*, 1/3/06 (page A12) **2005** - [“Questions for Ben Bernanke,” ](/file_url/214)*Wall Street Journal*, 10/28/05 (page A12) - [“Price Dynamics: Three Open Questions,”](/file_url/211) Comments Presented at Federal Reserve Conference, September 2005 - [Comment on “Separating the Business Cycle from Other Economic Fluctuations” by Robert E. Hall,](/file_url/218) Jackson Hole Conference, August 2005 - [Comment on “Asset Returns and Economic Growth” by Baker, DeLong, and Krugman,](/file_url/216) Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, 3/31/05 - ["Why Democrats Oppose Bush](/file_url/213)," *New Republic*, 3/21/05 - ["Free Advice for Democrats](/file_url/219)," *Wall Street Journal*, 3/3/05 - [Letter of Resignation as Chairman of Council of Economic Advisers,](/file_url/217) 2/9/05 - ["Honoring Massachusetts: A Tradition of Leadership,"](/file_url/215) 1/19/05 - ["Social Security Reform: National Saving and Macroeconomic Performance in the Global Economy](/file_url/212)," 1/17/05 **2004** - ["It is Time to Fix Social Security](/file_url/210)," *Wall Street Journal*, 12/16/04 - [The Economic Agenda:­*Johns Hopkins University Speech*](/file_url/227), 12/6/04 - [The Economic Agenda: American Enterprise Institute Speech](/file_url/224), 12/2/04 - [Macroeconomic Advisers Washington Policy Conference](/file_url/221), 9/9/04 - ["Not a Hooverville in Sight](/file_url/229)," *New York Times*, 8/22/04 - [NABE Speech](/file_url/234), 3/25/04 - ["Keeping Fannie and Freddie's houses in order](/file_url/223)," *Financial Times*, 2/24/04 - [Remarks on the 2004 Economic Report](/file_url/220), 2/17/04 - [Testimony on the Economic Report of the President](/file_url/228), 2/10/04 - [The Economic Outlook: House Budget Committee Testimony](/file_url/225), 2/3/04 **2003** - [Marshall Society Interview](/file_url/222), 12/23/03 - [The Manufacturing Sector Speech](/file_url/239), 12/17/03 - [GSE Reform: Conference of State Bank Supervisors Speech](/file_url/236), 11/6/03 - [The Estate Tax: NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Speech](/file_url/232), 11/4/03 - [China's Trade and U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Testimony](/file_url/230), 10/30/03 - [Minority Enterprise Development Week Speech](/file_url/237), 9/29/03 - [NABE speech](/file_url/234), 9/15/03 - ["Deficits and Economic Priorities,"](/file_url/233) *Washington Post*, 7/16/03 - [Confirmation Testimony](/file_url/231), 5/13/03 **2001** - ["The Cost of a 'Living Wage',"](/content/cost-living-wage) *Boston Globe*, 6/24/01 **2000 Columns in** ***FORTUNE*** **Magazine** - ["Bush is a Leader The Economy Can Trust,"](/content/bush-leader-economy-can-trust) 11/13/00 - ["The Estate Tax Is One Death Penalty Too Many,"](/content/estate-tax-one-death-penalty-too-many) 9/4/00 - ["A Plane Idea: Make the Airlines Suffer,"](/content/plane-idea-make-airlines-suffer) 7/11/00 - ["Ukraine: How Not To Run an Economy,"](/content/ukraine-how-not-run-economy) 6/12/00 - ["The Sensible Way to Dismember Microsoft,"](/content/sensible-way-dismember-microsoft) 5/29/00 - ["D.C., Stay Out of the New Economy,"](/content/dc-stay-out-new-economy) 5/15/00 - ["How Irrational Is Our Exuberance?"](/content/how-irrational-our-exuberance), 4/17/00 - ["Candidates Need Clues, Not Tax Plans,"](/content/candidates-need-clues-not-tax-plans) 3/20/00 - ["Is the Economy Recession-Proof?"](/content/economy-recession-proof), 2/21/00 - ["Why Getting Married Still Costs You,"](/content/why-getting-married-still-costs-you) 1/24/00 **1999 Columns in** ***FORTUNE*** **Magazine** - ["A Theory for an Open World,"](/content/theory-open-world) 12/20/99 - ["The Dow Will Hit 36,000! (Someday),"](/content/dow-will-hit-36000-someday) 11/9/99 - ["So Who Do We Thank for This Boom?"](/content/so-who-do-we-thank-boom), 10/11/99 - ["Why Shouldn't We Die Tax-Free?"](/content/why-shouldn%E2%80%99t-we-die-tax-free), 9/6/99 - ["A Greenspan Exit Strategy,"](/content/greenspan-exit-strategy) 8/2/99 - ["Vouchers: Schools Need Competition,"](/file_url/238) 7/7/99 - ["Gas Tax Now!"](/content/gas-tax-now), 5/24/99 - ["U.S. Trade Policy Is Just Plain Schizo,"](/content/us-trade-policy-just-plain-schizo) 4/12/99 - ["How to Screw Up Social Security,"](/content/how-screw-social-security) 3/15/99 - ["Are We a Nation of Spendthrifts?"](/content/are-we-nation-spendthrifts), 2/15/99 - ["Memo to Tokyo: Cut Taxes, Print Money,"](/content/memo-tokyo-cut-taxes-print-money) 1/11/99 **1998 Columns in** ***FORTUNE*** **Magazine** - ["Should Alan Greenspan Be Worrying About Deflation?"](/content/should-alan-greenspan-be-worrying-about-deflation), 12/7/98 - ["Let's Pass the Buck to Russia,"](/content/lets-pass-buck-russia) 11/9/98 - ["Why We Don't Speak Esperanto,"](/content/why-we-dont-speak-esperanto) 10/12/98 - ["Be Fruitful and Multiply,"](/content/be-fruitful-and-multiply) 9/7/98 - ["Government Debt: A Horror Story,"](/content/government-debt-horror-story) 8/3/98 - ["The Economist of the Century,"](/content/economist-century) 7/6/98 - ["Where Economists Put Their Money,"](/content/where-economists-put-their-money) 6/9/98 - ["Self-Help for Spenders,"](/content/self-help-spenders) 5/11/98 - ["A Great Pyramid Scheme,"](/content/great-pyramid-scheme) 4/13/98 - ["Ax Taxes for Xers!"](/content/ax-taxes-xers), 3/16/98 - ["Bob Dole vs. Microsoft (Go, Microsoft!),"](/content/bob-dole-vs-microsoft-go-microsoft) 2/16/98 - ["Why Pay More for Ketchup?"](/content/why-pay-more-ketchup), 1/12/98 **1997 Columns in** ***FORTUNE*** **Magazine** - ["Alan Greenspan's Tradeoff,"](/content/alan-greenspans-tradeoff) 12/8/97 Permission to [webpublish](/content/web-publishing-permission) columns in *Fortune* Send comments or questions to [Eliza Rakaseder]()