May 2009
Jimmy Cayne on Tim Geithner →
links for 2009-04-30 →
Mark J. McKeon: Why We Must Prosecute
Paul Krugman: Japan’s recovery, again
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…
April 2009
Paul Krugman: Japan’s recovery, again →
Mark J. McKeon: Why We Must Prosecute →
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eric Kleefeld: Toomey Ahead Of Specter By 21... →
Henry Farrell: I used to put Clive Crook in my... →
Bruce Sterling: Practical Tips for Combatting... →
Steve Randy Waldman: Value for Value →
Paul Krugman: The Specter of Republican... →
Digby: Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff For... →
Eric Kleefeld: Why Specter Did It -- And Had To Do... →
Juan Cole: Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics →
Luhnow, Cordoba, and Campoy: Mexico's High Death... →
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…
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…
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
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…
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 »
Steve Benen on Why Jay Bybee Should Be Impeached →
Paul Krugman Joins the Attack on Modern Finance →
John Holbo: Injustice as Fairness, or Justice as... →
The Course That Got Away - NYTimes.com →
Marc Bousquet: More Drivel From 'The New York... →
Gideon Rachman: The closing of the Thatcher era →
Tyler Cowen: Against torture prosecution →
Sam Stein: Lawrence Wilkerson: Disbar The Bush... →
Paul Krugman Joins the Attack on Modern Finance →
Matthew Yglesias: Emmanuel Saez Wins John Bates... →
Matthew Yglesias: Muscle Fatigue →
John Holbo: Injustice as Fairness, or Justice as... →
Michael Skapinker: Narcissistic leaders need... →
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Marc Ambinder: Why Obama Doesn't Care About Yoo →