Essays & press
Economics, argued in public.
I write for general audiences about money, inflation, and the incentives behind public policy — translating research into the debates people are actually having.
Essays & columns.
My columns and commentary, newest first — my Price Theory column at EconLib, my work for AIER's The Daily Economy, and op-eds elsewhere.
- Oct 2026 Revised Inflation Data Don’t Change the Fed’s Job
- Sep 2026 The ABA Shouldn’t Get to Grade Its Own Homework
- Sep 2026 The Fed Finally Raised Rates. Now Comes the Hard Part.
- Sep 2026 Don’t Index Capital Gains. Fix Inflation.
- Aug 2026 With Energy Prices Falling, Inflation Has Nowhere to Hide
- Jul 2026 One Month of Falling Prices Won’t Restore Price Stability
- Jul 2026 Standing Still as Inflation Runs Hot
- Jul 2026 June Inflation Slowed as Energy Prices Fell
- Jun 2026 Cutsinger’s Solution: Veggies and Noodles
- Jun 2026 Warsh Remakes the Fed as Inflation Runs Hot
- Jun 2026 May’s Inflation Is More Than an Energy Story
- Jun 2026 EconLog Price Theory: Veggies or Noodles?
- May 2026 Headline Inflation Cooled in April, but Core Pressures Picked Up
- Apr 2026 Powell Exits a Fed Fractured by Inflation Debate
- Apr 2026 Headline Inflation Surged in March, but Core Remained Muted
- Mar 2026 Cutsinger’s Solution: Housing Quantity and Price
- Mar 2026 The Fed Sees Higher Inflation Coming — and May Cut Rates Anyway
- Mar 2026 For Gen Z, Economics May Be the Key to Success in the New AI World
- Mar 2026 AI Won’t Cause a Spending Collapse
- Mar 2026 Inflation Edged Up in February, But Core Price Pressures Ease
- Mar 2026 EconLog Price Theory: Housing Quantity and Price
- Mar 2026 Federal Reserve Revenue: Cutsinger’s Solution
- Feb 2026 Inflation Is Cooling: Jan 2026 Increase Below Seasonal Norms
- Feb 2026 EconLog Price Theory: Federal Reserve Revenue
- Jan 2026 The Fed Takes a Wait-and-See Approach
- Jan 2026 Cutsinger’s Solution: The Price of Education
- Jan 2026 EconLog Price Theory: The Price of Education
- Dec 2025 Cutsinger’s Solution: Inflation and Healthcare
- Dec 2025 Inflation Retreats from Late-Summer Highs, Nears Fed Target
- Dec 2025 The Fed Cut Rates Again–What Else Is New?
- Dec 2025 EconLog Price Theory: Inflation and Healthcare
- Oct 2025 Fed Cuts Rates for Second Straight Meeting
- Oct 2025 Slower Inflation But Rising Uncertainty in September
- Sep 2025 Miran Follows a Long Tradition of Political Appointees at the Fed
- Sep 2025 AI killed the business major? Not so fast.
- Sep 2025 Inflation Heats Up in August
- Sep 2025 Remaking the Fed: A Look Back at the Banking Act of 1935
- Aug 2025 Rate of Inflation Cools in July, Case for Rate Cuts Builds
- Aug 2025 Fed Governor’s Labor Market Warning Validated by BLS Revision
- Jul 2025 Fed Holds Rates Steady Amid Political Pressure
- Jul 2025 When Doing Nothing Is Doing Harm: Powell’s Misstep on Tariffs and the Neutral Rate
- Jul 2025 Are Tariffs Really Inflationary?
- Jun 2025 There’s a New Sheriff at the Fed
- Jun 2025 Fed Holds Rates Steady Amid Economic Uncertainty
- Jun 2025 Waller Isn’t Flinching at Tariff Inflation — Here’s Why
- May 2025 Fed Holds Steady as Tariff Storm Looms
- Mar 2025 Despite Uncertainty, Fed Holds Rates Steady
- Feb 2025 Powell’s Revisionist History of Inflation Targeting
- Jan 2025 Stop Blaming Algorithms: Political Scapegoats Won’t Fix Housing Problems
- Nov 2024 The Fed’s Gold Standard Confusion
- May 2024 Is The Fed Manipulating the Market?
- Apr 2024 Rachel Reeves’ Inflation Confusion
- Feb 2024 Price Theory Needs a Revival
- Sep 2023 What’s the Harm in Raising the Inflation Target?
- Aug 2023 Waller Explains Why the Fed is Still Raising Rates
- Jul 2023 Does Greedflation Fit the Facts?
- Jun 2023 In Search of a Monetary Standard: A Review of Robert Hetzel’s The Federal Reserve: A New History
- May 2023 Waller Offers Common Sense View on Financial Risks of Climate Change
- May 2023 Can the Fed Continue to Fight Inflation without Risking a Financial Crisis?
- Dec 2022 Putting Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply to Work
- Apr 2022 The Fed’s Dual Mandate Is Redundant
Interviews & media.
Interviews, podcasts, and mentions.
- Jun 2026 Bryan Cutsinger, Peter Ireland, and Will Luther on Lessons Learned from the Fed Framework Review
- Nov 2025 Bryan Cutsinger on the What the History of Growth Driven Deflation Can Teach us about a Potential AI Boom
- Jul 2023 Bryan Cutsinger and Louis Rouanet on the Politics and Dynamics of Hyperinflation in Revolutionary France
- Apr 2019 Bryan Cutsinger on Seigniorage and the Monetary Economics of the Civil War
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