June 2009
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/delong91
In the circles in which I travel, there is near-universal consensus that here in America our monetary philosopher-princes have made three…
Jeebus save us! Does National Review have no editors? Does Thomas Sowell have no friends?
In National Review, Thomas Sowell writes:
Why Republican Infighting Matters: A quadrupling of…
He wonders:
Greg Mankiw’s Blog: The Arbiter of Ignorance: In a brief blog post on healthcare, Paul Krugman says that George Will and I are “either remarkably ignorant or simply…
Why would the Washington Post have a health-care story written by a reporter who knows neither legislative process nor health-care policy substance.
Outsourced to Robert Waldmann (Robert! Paul…
Matthew Yglesias on the hissy-fit the policy substance-free “opinions on shape of earth differ” journamalists of the Stenographer faction are pulling. It seems it was unfair for Barack Hussein…
Gene Weingarten:
Chatological Humor: can tell you that there has been some disagreement about Froomkin’s column over the years between the paper-paper and dotcom; the issue, I think, was…
Pessimism of the intellect! But optimism of the will, Andrew! I must say I want my sensible bipartisan center back, I want it back real bad.
Andrew:
They are, he says, safeguarding vulnerable Democrats. And the Republicans are shooting themselves in the head by driving policy leftward:
It is, I think, much too early to be worrying about closing America’s structural deficit through any policies other than trying to set health care cost-containment in motion. Recession-fighting…
Yes, he does. I couldn’t believe it, but the Washington Post is worse than I could imagine.
Andy Alexander says that Fred Hiatt and company at the Washington Post won’t talk to him about their…
Tyler Cowen asks:
Marginal Revolution: Paying interest on reserves, and why it should be easy to disarm future inflationary pressures. Do I believe it?
The correct answer is “maybe.”
If…
