May 2009
Jimmy Cayne on Tim Geithner →
May 1st
links for 2009-04-30 →
Mark J. McKeon: Why We Must Prosecute Paul Krugman: Japan’s recovery, again
May 1st
Yes, Byron York *Is* This Stupid →
Byron York: Beltway Confidential: The black-white divide in Obama’s popularity: [T]he president[’s]… sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more…
May 1st
April 2009
Paul Krugman: Japan’s recovery, again →
Apr 30th
Mark J. McKeon: Why We Must Prosecute →
Apr 30th
Bad Banks Are Not an Adverse Supply Shock →
Nick Rowe asks a question: Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Banks, Aggregate Demand, and Aggregate Supply: can understand how bad banks could affect the AS curve. Long-run growth comes from the…
Apr 30th
Tim Geithner and the Swedish Model →
James Surowiecki: The Sweden Example: The Balance Sheet: Ryan Avent beats me to the punch by pointing out the most important part of today’s Times’ story on Tim Geithner, namely that in the…
Apr 30th
Benefit-Cost Analysis →
The extremely sharp-witted Rob Stavins gets one wrong. Rob: Harvard UniversityAn Economic View of the Environment: Does economic analysis shortchange the future?: Much skepticism about…
Apr 30th
Notes for April 29 Econ 210a Class: "Thirty... →
John Maynard Keynes (1926), “The End of Laissez Faire” http://tinyurl.com/dl20090112ad Paul Krugman, “Introduction” to John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money…
Apr 30th
More Congratulations to Emmanuel Saez →
Peter Orszag congratulates Emmanuel Saez: “Emmanuel’s energy, intelligence, and dedication are deeply impressive—as was his ability to explain, despite his French accent, a complicated research…
Apr 30th
links for 2009-04-29 →
Juan Cole: Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics Luhnow, Cordoba, and Campoy: Mexico’s High Death Rate Poses Key Question on Virus Bruce Sterling: Practical Tips for Combatting…
Apr 30th
Mostly Bad News: The GDP Release →
That crack reporter Insert Byline for CNBC reports on the real GDP decline: GDP Down 6.1%: The U.S. economy contracted at a surprisingly sharp 6.1 percent rate in the first quarter as exports…
Apr 30th
Eric Kleefeld: Toomey Ahead Of Specter By 21... →
Apr 29th
Henry Farrell: I used to put Clive Crook in my... →
Apr 29th
Bruce Sterling: Practical Tips for Combatting... →
Apr 29th
Steve Randy Waldman: Value for Value →
Apr 29th
Paul Krugman: The Specter of Republican... →
Apr 29th
Digby: Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff For... →
Apr 29th
Eric Kleefeld: Why Specter Did It -- And Had To Do... →
Apr 29th
Juan Cole: Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics →
Apr 29th
Luhnow, Cordoba, and Campoy: Mexico's High Death... →
Apr 29th
links for 2009-04-28 →
Michael Skapinker: Narcissistic leaders need external controls Tyler Cowen: Against torture prosecution Paul Krugman Joins the Attack on Modern Finance Gideon Rachman: The…
Apr 29th
The White House Press Conference →
Dan Froomkin has a modest proposal: Send Krugman to the Press Conference: President Obama holds a prime-time press conference tomorrow night to mark his 100th day in office, and if the major…
Apr 29th
DeLong: The Current Situation (as of April 24,... →
Download now or preview on posterous Posted via email from http://braddelong.posterous.com/delong-the-current-situation-as-of-april-24-2 at Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook
Apr 29th
A Statement by Brad DeLong →
In response to: A Statement by Senator Arlen Specter: I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates and for the ideals of a…
Apr 29th
DeLong: The Current Situation (as of April 24,...
Download now or preview on posterous 20090423_Van_delong.pdf (2091 KB) Posted via email from Brad DeLong’s Scrapbook | Comment »
Apr 29th
Steve Benen on Why Jay Bybee Should Be Impeached →
Apr 28th
Paul Krugman Joins the Attack on Modern Finance →
Apr 28th
John Holbo: Injustice as Fairness, or Justice as... →
Apr 28th
The Course That Got Away - NYTimes.com →
Apr 28th
Marc Bousquet: More Drivel From 'The New York... →
Apr 28th
Gideon Rachman: The closing of the Thatcher era →
Apr 28th
Tyler Cowen: Against torture prosecution →
Apr 28th
Sam Stein: Lawrence Wilkerson: Disbar The Bush... →
Apr 28th
Paul Krugman Joins the Attack on Modern Finance →
Apr 28th
Matthew Yglesias: Emmanuel Saez Wins John Bates... →
Apr 28th
Matthew Yglesias: Muscle Fatigue →
Apr 28th
John Holbo: Injustice as Fairness, or Justice as... →
Apr 28th
Michael Skapinker: Narcissistic leaders need... →
Apr 28th
links for 2009-04-27 →
The Course That Got Away - NYTimes.com A messy future awaits central bankers | The monetary-policy maze | The Economist Oxdown Gazette » Could David Broder Be any More Dishonest…
Apr 28th
Is Anything Karl Marx Wrote After He Turned Thirty... →
Circling around again to Chris Bertram’s whine about how lousy my “evaluating Karl Marx as an economist” lecture is, and how he would do something else: Explaining Marx to newbies: Suppose I…
Apr 28th
Washington Post Crashed-and-Burned-and-Smoking... →
Is there any reason—other than a combination of incompetence and political bias—that the second half of the lead sentence is not “but she and her husband make more money than all but 0.6% and…
Apr 28th
David Warsh Has Lost His Mind →
Warsh writes: Economic Principals: The American newspaper industry has fallen on hard times, and its authority has dimmed, at least for the moment. But the conservators of its traditions…
Apr 28th
Things to Read: Eichengreen's "Meet the... →
It’s supposed to be in the May/June issue of The National Interest, published by the Nixon Center (eeeuuuwww!). But where is it?
Apr 28th
Ramesh Ponnuru, Fool →
Ramesh Ponnuru writes: Sidestepping the Issue - Ramesh Ponnuru: Based on my reading, the leading argument against prosecutions is that it would be imprudent, divisive, poisonous, etc., and…
Apr 28th
I Missed Henry Farrell's Observance of Charles... →
I cannot believe it. This was one thing I definitely want to observe every year: Hope You Had a Happy Krauthammer Day!: I forgot to note a very special anniversary yesterday. April 22nd is…
Apr 28th
Quality Control, FT, Quality Control: You Can Do... →
Clive Crook writes: Clive Crook - Obama’s needless fight over torture: Many just take it for granted that waterboarding is torture, and hence illegal. The convoluted legal defences in the…
Apr 28th
Government Spending We Don't Need: Susan Collins... →
Can’t we get some better senators from Maine? Matthew Yglesias: Susan Collins and Pandemic Flu: Boy, it sure is great that Susan Collins made sure we didn’t waste any money on pandemic flu…
Apr 28th
What Good Is Modern Finance? →
Modern finance exists to (i) channel purchasing power from households with savings to businesses with investment projects, (ii) improve corporate governance, and (iii) diversify risks. It has…
Apr 28th
Marc Ambinder: Why Obama Doesn't Care About Yoo →
Apr 27th