July 2008
We Are the Droids that We Have Been Waiting... →
By popular demand:
Capital and Its Complements →
Project Syndicate: From Adam Smith (1776) until 1950 or so, capital was considered by economists to be absolutely essential for economic growth. You also needed a few good basic institutions….
Matthew Yglesias on John McCain's "I Love Illegal... →
Spaghetti Westerns →
Unemployment Benefit Extension Blogging; Why Does... →
A crass political post… Calculated Risk writes: Calculated Risk: Unemployment Benefits Extended: An extension of unemployment benefits for 13 weeks was included in the war funding bill…
A Remark on Friedman's "The Social Responsibility... →
Conor Clarke’s posting excerpts from Milton Friedman (1970), “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” gives me an opportunity to get something off my chest that has been…
PGL: Oil Prices: Tracking the National Review... →
Calculated Risk: Unemployment Benefits Extended →
Fred Bergsten: Trade has saved America from... →
Marty Lederman: The Maher Arar Scandal and the... →
The Environment: What Can We Do? (Megan McArdle... →
Megan writes: Megan McArdle: The great, great Tom Lee on the ineffable problems of trying to lower your environmental footprint: Doing this stuff is impossibly difficult, as is amply…
Attempted DeLong Smackdown Watch: Origins of... →
Greg Ransom writes: Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong: Here’s a suggestion for Blinder and DeLong. Read some Roger Garrison, and give two seconds to…
Glenn Kessler: Obama Defines Social Security... →
Tom Lasseter: America's prison for terrorists... →
Ezra Klein on Newspapers →
Scott Shane: Bipartisan Group to Speak Out on... →
Ankush Khardori: It Wasn't Me →
Krugman: Notes on Speculation →
Differences Between Obama and McCain... →
Paul Krugman: Baselines, shmaselines: Wise words from the Tax Policy Center: There is an easy way to cut through this palaver. Forget the baseline. Just think about three numbers: How much…
Impeach Antonin Scalia. Impeach Him Now →
Outsourced to Hilzoy: Obsidian Wings: Returned To The Battlefield: In his dissent in Boumedienne (pdf), Justice Scalia wrote: “At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from…
Department of "Huh?" (Bear Stearns Edition) →
I cannot believe my eyes: Bryan Burroughs: Bringing Down Bear Stearns: Cayne took the news peacefully. He resigned as C.E.O. on January 8, but remained chairman of the board. Schwartz was…
Why Oh Why Can't We Have Better Republican... →
Ezra Klein: EzraKlein Archive: Alex directs me to this Fortune interview where McCain unsheathes a SuperSoaker of crazy: Senator, what do you see as the gravest long-term threat to the U.S….
Josh Orton: Bush Started Looking for Bin Laden... →
Scott Rosenberg: Jay Rosen and the journalism... →
Scott Rosenberg: Jay Rosen and the journalism... →
John Quiggin: Defending Rachel Carson: the last... →
Acemoglu, Johnson, Querubín, and Robinson: Central... →
Lansing: Speculative Bubbles and Overreaction to... →
Barry Eichengreen: Like the 1930s, in Reverse →
Barry Eichengreen, in the hall outside my office, says: There are now fifty countries in the world with inflation rates over 10%. It’s like the early 1930s, but just reverse the sign: back then…
Taxing Income from Capital:... →
Robert Waldmann has a nice little toy model—an intuition pump—that leads to positively Maoist conclusions: …
Paul Krugman Misreads the Political Situation, I... →
Paul Krugman writes: The Obama Agenda: It’s feeling a lot like 1992 right now. It’s also feeling a lot like 1980. But which parallel is closer? Is Barack Obama going to be a Ronald Reagan of…
Dan Froomkin: Contempt of Congress →
Deborah Solomon : Paulson to Putin: You Say... →
Justin Fox: The strange fantasy world of the... →
Tyler Cowen: With oil at $140 a barrel, can you... →
Michael Froomkin on Parhat v Gates: This was a... →
David Fettig: Lender of More Than Last... →
David Wessel: An Old but Powerful Fed Paragraph:... →
June 2008
New York Times Death Spiral Watch (Liquidity... →
Andrew Ross Sorkin fails to get what a liquidity problem is: What Really Killed Bear Stearns?: Did Bear Stearns melt down — or was it murdered?: That is one of the big questions that Bryan…
Andrew Golis: The NYT's rehash of Democrats'... →
Spencer Ackerman: Iraq Contractor Security... →
Bryan Burroughs: Bringing Down Bear Stearns →
Neal Gabler: Cannibal liberals →
General Motors and the S&P since 1971 →
Energy Costs as a Share of Spending →
From Spencer of Angry Bear:
Qassim Zein and Hannah Allam: In Maliki's... →
Gary Farber: If It Ain't Got That Swing →
Bil Benzon: The Raw Critic: WALL-E →
McCain: I ‘Don’t See How It Matters’ That I Don’t... →
Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Him Now →
Tim F. of Balloon Juice: Balloon Juice: Message to all of those rightwing net warriors who demanded over the years that I accept that THERE WAS A PLAN and the Rumsfeld/neocon warhawks are…
