April 2009
PROJECT SYNDICATE: Kick-Starting Employment: BERKELEY - Unemployment is currently rising like a rocket, because businesses that normally would be expanding and hiring are not, and those businesses…
Until 9:30 or so… Holding court at Caribou Coffee. Very Feist-heavy music…
Give credit to Timothy Geithner’s new toxic asset plan: For the economy to be viable, the financial system must be healthy. For this to occur, the system needs to be cleansed of its poorly…
Kevin Carey:
What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers’ Decline - Chronicle.com: Newspapers are dying. Are universities next?… Both industries are in the business of creating and…
George Packer:
PNAC and Iraq: A commenter I assume to be Gary Schmitt, the former executive director and current senior fellow at the Project for the New American Century, writes to take me…
March 2009
Lee Fang:
Think Progress» Rep. Paul Ryan Concedes GOP Alternative Budget Would Increase The Deficit ‘A Lot’: Last week, the House GOP presented its alternative budget proposal. Members of…
Dan reports on what the Washington Post now prints as front-page news—something it ould have printed three years ago:
White House Watch - Bush’s Torture Rationale Debunked: Abu Zubaida was…
It looks as though Obama is going to get about half of what he asks for—which is a failure not on his part but on the part of the Europeans. Let’s hope that that is enough.
Paul Krugman:
An excerpt:
Cullen Murphy and Todd Purdum: there were detailed discussions and briefings on cyber-security and often terrorism, and on a classified program… . he seemed—I was disturbed…
Robert Waldmann:
Dear Brad,
…Anyway, I really think you ought to have posts of the form: “Maynard Keynes Discusses the Current Crisis part MDCCLXXIV.” It seems to me that he is one of the most…
I feel shy about quoting too much of what I have published in “The Week” here—Frank Wilkinson is paying me good money (well, not “good” money: hand-signed checks on the Nation payscale is what…
The question is left as an exercise for the reader:
Monty Python’s Flying Circus - “Oscar Wilde”: monty python sketches: cheese shop, four yorkshiremen, oscar wilde, are you embarrassed…
Hoisted from comments: Robert Waldmann writes:
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Ex-College Roommates Write Letters: Self referential blog commenting: Uhm, Brad, don’t expect to have a monopoly…
