September 2011
Obama's Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam... →
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July 2011
Obama Has Always Been for Premature Fiscal... →
Paul Krugman sends us to Mark Thoma who sends us to Jonathan Schwarz, who points out that there is evidence that Obama rejected his economists’ judgment that the economy needed a bigger stimulus…
Herbert Hoover Against Early Payment of the WWI... →
Herbert Hoover: September 14, 1932: It is my duty to the country and to the veterans that there should be no misunderstanding of my position upon payment of the face value of the adjusted…
Jeebus Save Us! →
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Liveblogging World War II: July 16, 1941 →
Winston S. Churchill:
Business Investment in Equipment and Software Is... →
Companies are having no trouble at all finding the cash to boost their stocks of machinery, equipment, and software. No trouble at all. What is still profoundly in the dumps is…
Treasury Nominal Yield Curve Rates →
That sucker at the far right has a duration of 17 years… Right now I am really, really, really sorry that we do not have a consol…
Alan S. Blinder: Our National Jobs Emergency →
Alan S. Blinder: Our National Jobs Emergency.
Wonkette Learns About the Balance Sheet Recession →
Wonkette: Study: Americans Poor Now Because They Don’t Have Any Money: A startling new study proves that America’s Middle Class has been utterly, completely wiped out…. Apparently, wages…
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?... →
I could not believe this: Robert Bridges: A Home Is a Lousy Investment/a>: At the risk of heaping more misery on the struggling residential property market, an analysis of home-price and…
George Will and Gretchen Morgenson's Claims That... →
Rebutted by Dean Baker: It really is incredible to see such a concerted effort to rewrite history in front of our faces. There is not much ambiguity in the story of the housing bubble. The…
Rosanne Cash: 500 Miles →
Liveblogging World War II: July 9, 1941 →
2004 Domaine Robert Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du... →
From Cellar Tracker: 2004 Domaine Robert Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du Dessus, France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru: VarietyL Pinot Noir…. Drinking window: Drink…
False Forbes Claims That Per Capita Grain... →
Rebutted by Peter Gleick: Forbes, which regularly publishes biased, misleading, and distorted opinion pieces on climate issues, has just published a remarkable one by Patrick Michaels….
Would Leo Strauss Have Been Opposed to Gay... →
Alan Gilbert informs me that, for some bizarre reason, Sam Tanenhaus has given Harry Jaffa a platform in the New York Times Book Review to denounce gay marriage in New York in the name of Leo…
May 2011
Crowdsourcing the "Virtual Green Room"... →
If it is not obvious, for the “Virtual Green Room” feature: For the Virtual Green Room: May 28, 2011: Things I want to have at the forefront of my brain—for when I am surprised, as I will…
For the Virtual Green Room: May 29, 2011... →
Things I want to have at the forefront of my brain—for when I am surprised, as I will be, by an unexpected question from an unexpected direction while talking to reporters, phone callers,…
Why We Would All Be Better Off without the... →
Paul Van de Water: Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: To some extent, the [Rep. Paul] Ryan plan [to eliminate Medicare and replace it with vouchers to…
Liveblogging World War II: May 27, 1941 →
Winston S. Churchill:
Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: May 25,... →
WSC:
The KMSS Bismarck and Ted Briggs Liveblog World... →
The Bismarck: Ted Briggs: H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Remembering Hood - Excerpt from “Flagship Hood, The Fate of Britain’s Mightiest Warship”:…
Most Important, Destroying Medicare and Replacing... →
Duncan Black says that, surprise, surprise, it is turning out to be bad politics as well: Eschaton: The Advantage Of Incompetent Pundits: [O]ur Villagers… truly think they speak for the…
Right Now a Weaker Dollar Would Be in America's... →
I remember back in 1993 the garbage thrown at then-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen when he said—quite reasonably—a stronger yen would be in America’s interest… We have not grown up at all…
Simple Deficit Reduction Arithmetic: A Comment on... →
Mark Thoma sends us to Kash Mansouri: http://streetlightblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/some-simple-deficit-reduction.html I think things are actually much worse than Kash states. If recessions cast…
Jared Bernstein Unbound →
I am sure that he will be shrill: Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
Could Microsoft Please Hire Some Programmers? A... →
So my Mac has been very sluggish today. And now I find out why. I opened up one of Feynman’s “Character of Physical Law” lectures this morning, and then paused it. Now I find that Microsoft…
Hoisted from Comments: Is Ron Paul Against the... →
It would seem so: Ron Paul Tells Chris Matthews He Favors Enforcement of No-Blacks Covenants in Deeds?]: Richard said… Is it wrong for me to wonder when Paul said “property rights and…
Bizarre Equivalence Watch of the Day... →
Noam Chomsky asserts equivalence between Osama bin Laden and… himself: Guernica / Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death: There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but…
The Chances That Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh,... →
Haaretz: Hamas accepts 1967 borders, but will never recognize Israel, top official says - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: aking to Palestinian news agency Ma’an, Mahmoud Zahar says…
Aggregating Aggregative Aggregators →
Felix Salmon starts with some throat-clearing: The business of digital journalism: CJR… a 146-page report… “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism”. It…
Why Is the Higher Education Market Failing? →
Matthew Yglesias’s view: Yglesias » Competition in Higher Education: [T]he key point I would make is that of course the universities do compete against one another. If a skilled…
Charlie Stross: Safe, Efficient, Clean Nuclear... →
Charlie Stross: Charlie’s Diary: The Economist has a report from the International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants of a plenary session discussing the Fukushima Daiichi…
Economist Robert Clower Has Died at 85... →
Nick Row comments: Sad news. Directly and indirectly, he was a big influence on my thinking. But I fear his insights are being lost (not just his, of course). Indeed. There is, somewhere out…
A Piece of the Hidden Knowledge of... →
Robert Waldmann inquires as to the meaning of the Latin phrase: “arcana imperii.” It is a reference to a famous passage about the Year of the Four Emperors in the Historiae of Publius (or maybe…
Reading Ian Morris on the Wheat Lands and the Rice... →
Suresh Naidu of Columbia told me to move Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules—for Now to the top of The Pile—that it is a much, much better book than its title might suggest, and that Ian Morris…
California Democratic Party Convention: "Too Big... →
Brad DeLong: Thank you. I remember, back when I was working for the Treasury, after one White House meeting Joseph Stiglitz—then one of the members of the President’s Council of Economic…
Daniel Kuehn: Keynes's Foreword to the German... →
DK: Facts & other stubborn things: Keynes’s Foreword to the German Edition of the General Theory: Lurking in the cracks between what one school of thought considers worth talking about and…
April 2011
THE TEARS OF THE SUN - 2 →
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March 2011
Liveblogging World War II: March 25, 1941 →
Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers. Prime Minister Cvetkovic and Foreign Minister Cincar-Markovic sign the Tripartite Pact. Germany agrees to respect Yugoslav sovereignty and not to demand passage…
Christy Romer Joins the Order of the Shrill →
The Fukushima Fifty... →
Matt Blake of the Daily Mail writes: Fukushima Fifty: First pictures emerge from inside Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant: The darkness is broken only by the flashing torchlight…
Paul Blustein Is Not Fleeing Japan... →
Paul Blustein: Why I’m not fleeing Japan: To get some perspective on the earthquake that struck the country to which I moved last year, I hiked a mile and a half Wednesday morning from our…
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?... →
It burns, it burns! Alison Gopnik: What the New York Times’ John Tierney gets wrong about bias and women scientists: John Tierney suggested that a “taboo on discussing sex differences” has…
Eric Swanson: Let's Twist Again →
Eric Swanson: Let’s Twist Again:
A High-Frequency Event-Study Analysis of Operation Twist and Its Implications for QE2
Nick Rowe Has Another First Class Rant About How... →
He has a point: Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Do Keynesians understand their own models?: Do Keynesians really understand their own models? Do they understand the central role of money and…
Liveblogging World War II: March 17, 1941 →
A Poorer World Short of High Quality Assets with... →
Tyler Cowen writes: A wee bit more on spending, borrowing, and earthquakes: Regarding Brad’s response post. I view our disagreement as such. In my view, a low rate of interest on Treasury…
That Level of Radiation Would Get You to "Lethal... →
Ezra Klein Roasts Evan Bayh →
EK: The sad, hypocritical retirement of Evan Bayh: After two terms in the Senate, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) announced that he was done with Congress. “There are better ways to serve my fellow…