The Economist’s free exchange:

Fifty little Hoovers, hoovering up stimulus: MATTHEW YGLESIAS makes a good point:

Reading Harold Meyerson’s column on the looming devastation of California…

The BLS says:

And David Rosenberg, via Barry Ritholtz:

Krishna Guha to the orange courtesy phone, please.

The headline over your article is:

Romer Upbeat on US Economy

The quotes from the Hon. Christina D. Romer are:

• We do not want to…

Gene Smolensky admonishes me for not having read Fool’s Gold yet. “It’s very good,” he says, “But it doesn’t have enough numbers.”

Krishna Guha and Sarah O’Connor in Washington, Michael Mackenzie in New York and Ralph Atkins in Luxembourg write:

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