March 2009
Leszek Kolakowski: My Absolutely Correct Views on... →
David Colander et al.: The Financial Crisis and... →
Oliver Kamm: More on Miliband Père →
Barack Obama Talks About His Goals, and the... →
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Via Edge of the American West
Posted via web from http://braddelong.posterous.com/barack-obama-talks-about-his-g at Brad DeLong’s…
Barack Obama Talks About His Goals, and the...
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E.P. Thompson: An Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski →
Leszek Kolakowski: My Absolutely Correct Views on...
Download now or preview on posterous SR_1974_Kolakowski.pdf (209 KB) Posted via email from Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook | Comment »
E.P. Thompson: An Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski
Download now or preview on posterous SR_1973_Thompson.pdf (1251 KB) Posted via email from Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook | Comment »
Mark Ames and Yasha Levine: Rick Santelli as... →
Stimulus Ostriches →
Project Syndicate | The Stimulus Ostriches: BERKELEY - Of all the strange things that have happened this winter, perhaps the strangest has been the emergence of large-scale Republican Party…
Barry Ritholtz: Rick Santelli’s Planted Rant →
Notes on Christie Romer's Friday Speech →
The speech is here Romer: Of course, one can also debate the baseline and the question of whether creating or saving 3 to 4 million jobs will be enough to fully heal the economy. But it is…
Economics Graduate School in Barcelona →
Hans-Joachim Voth: Director’s Blog: Financial Crisis Course: I am Joachim Voth, the director of the new M.Sc. in International Trade, Finance and Development at UPF-BGSE. This blog will keep…
Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch: Ryan... →
Ryan Avent on the Post’s “opinions on shape of earth differ” journalism: The Bellows » “Debate”: The Post really doesn’t get it. George Will wrote a column suggesting that there was a broad…
Economics Graduate School in Barcelona →
Hans-Joachim Voth: Director’s Blog: Financial Crisis Course: I am Joachim Voth, the director of the new M.Sc. in International Trade, Finance and Development at UPF-BGSE. This blog will keep…
The Good Guys Win One →
Thoreau: It was a pleasure to lose this bet § Unqualified Offerings: Accused enemy combatant Ali Al-Marri is being transferred to civilian custody to stand trial in a regular court of law. …
Matthew Yglesias and Mark Thoma on Franklin Foer... →
Matthew Yglesias and Ryan Avent: Washington Post... →
Rick Levinson: Buffett Says Economy Will Be ‘In... →
Think Progress: Santorum At CPAC: ‘Absolutely We... →
Lewis Page: Nano Air Vehicles →
Joe Nocera: Desperately Protecting A.I.G.’s House... →
Ryan Avent: The Post Doesn't Get It →
Matthew Yglesias: Washington Post Still Dodging... →
David Weigel: Conservatives Confident Their Day Is... →
Daniel Henninger: A Radical Presidency →
We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia... →
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Story now removed from the internet at the behest of the Jindal operation… —— Posted via web from …
Matthew Yglesias: Huckabee Making Strong Bid to... →
United States v. Hayes: Summary →
TPM: News Pages | Talking Points Memo | Politico...
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February 2009
Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch:... →
Last week the new Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander wrote what “was understandably seen as an institutional defense” of the Washington Post editors and their climate change-denialist…
Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned Watch: The Post... →
Ah. I see that Washington Post* ombudsman Andrew Alexander has finally read http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/global.sea.ice.area.pdf. Last week, Hilzoy wrote: Obsidian Wings: I…
Republicans: Much Worse than You Can Imagine... →
UPDATE: More from Zachary Roth: TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Jindal’s Office Tries To Spin Katrina Story, Digs Itself In Deeper: You can watch the key excerpt here, but here’s the…
Republicans: Worse than You Can Imagine →
via tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com Posted via web from http://braddelong.posterous.com/tpmmuckraker-talking-points-me-2 at Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook From Zachary Roth:
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Jindal Admits...
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The Forest of Outstretched Arms Looking for Work... →
Associate Dean Ananya Roy decided a year and a half ago that Berkeley’s International Studies teaching programs would deliver much more in the way of education to the undergraduates at the same cost…
Why Do We Economists Today Know So Much Less than... →
Paul Krugman links to a very nice piece by Oliver Staley and Michael McKee in which he (and a lot of other people) sing the praises of James Tobin. One of the benefits of being in an intellectual…
We Are Going to Need a Bigger Stimulus →
Fourth quarter of 2008 GDP 1.55% below the third quarter level—and an equal decline now forecast for the first quarter. Paul Krugman says: Yikes. And if the data on new unemployment claims…
On the Economy, Obama and Company Are Now Batting... →
Paul Krugman is unhappy: Feelings of despair: There’s so much to like about where Obama is going — health care, transparency in government, ending the war in Iraq. And the stimulus bill is…
Gillian Tett Bears Bad News About CDOs →
The always-worth-reading Gillian Tett: Time to expose those CDOs: Just how much should a debt vehicle backed by subprime mortgage bonds be worth these days? Two years ago, most banks and…
Menzie Chinn on House Prices →
Via econbrowser.com The future data points are not market forecasts, exactly—they are supply-demand equilibrium trading prices for those agents who are in the CS 10 futures market who are almost…
The Emerging Democratic Majority →
via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com Democrats in Congress could work harder on this. Just saying. Posted via web from http://braddelong.posterous.com/the-emerging-democratic-majori…
The CBO on the American Recovery and Reinvestment... →
via econbrowser.com Posted via web from http://braddelong.posterous.com/the-cbo-on-the-american-recove at Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook
Notes After Econ 210a: February 25, 2009: The... →
Economics 210a: February 25, 2009: The Economics of Thugs with Spears Who Take Your Stuff… Domar: In order to have a rich upper class of warriors/administrators/bureaucrats, you need to have:…
The "Pro-Life" Movement: Children of Sluts Must... →
Colorado State Senator David Schultheis (Republican, Colorado Springs) favors mother-child HIV transmission: Rocky Mountain News: This stems from sexual promiscuity for the most part and I just…
The Pace of the Recession →
via econbrowser.com The scariest thing is that there is no sign of a bottom yet… Posted via web from http://braddelong.posterous.com/the-pace-of-the-recession at Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook
Patrick Ruffini Hates Joe the Plumber, Adam Smith... →
You will all remember that when Politico boss John Harris wanted to oust Dan Froomkin from the Washington Post website he did so by saying that grassroots readers like Patrick Ruffini thought that…
It's Not as Bad as It Looks--Yet →
Via Calculated Risk. From the Department of Labor: In the week ending Feb. 21, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 667,000, an increase of 36,000 from the previous week’s…
Trying to Reduce the Power of K Street →
Sam Stein of The Huffington Post: ‘Accountability Now’: Bloggers And Progressive Groups Plan To Challenge Elected Dems: Some of the most prominent names in progressive politics launched a…
Adam Posen Says That Our Banking Policy Is Heading... →
Adam via Paul Krugman: Turning Japanese - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: The guarantees that the US government has already extended to the banks in the last year, and the insufficient…
