April 2010
Nineteen Things Worth Reading, Mostly Economics... →
Jon Healey: The healthcare reform law exposes an extraordinary tax subsidy
Zachary Roth: Debate Planners Can’t Find Anyone to Argue That Health Reform Is Unconstitutional Roth:…
April Fool! →
How to Make Peepshi = Peeps Sushi:
Cartoon of the Day: Tom Tomorrow's "Healthcare... →
Healthcare reformageddon - This Modern World - Salon.com:
If You Are Now Uninsured, the Government Is Doing... →
Andrew Sabl: The Affordable Care Act is government paying for your private insurance when your employer doesn’t: If you or your family aren’t getting health insurance through your job, the…
Widening Term Spreads Would Be Good News →
Paul Krugman will be pleased, not distressed, by further widening of the U.S. term structure: A Note On The Term Spread: [T]o a first approximation you can think of the long term rate as…
March 2010
Retiree Health Benefit Subsidy Accounting: Megan... →
Not that I don’t understand why she doesn’t—I don’t read the WSJ editorial page either except under duress. But isn’t reading the WSJ editorial page part of her job? McArdle: Excessive…
Figure of the Day: Odds on Obamacare →
From Paul Krugman:
**FLASH** MUST CREDIT DELONG **FLASH**: Horrible... →
If you are a Republican, you think a low-tax country is the right place to live, right? And now if you read Greg Mankiw he proves that North Korea is the lowest tax country. South Korean police…
The March Payroll Number Is Not Looking So Good... →
Macroeconomic Advisers emails: Private nonfarm payroll employment declined by 23,000 from February to March on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report™….
Department of "Huh?": Default Discounts in U.S.... →
The term premium on U.S. Treasury debt is low because even though long-term nominal (and real) rates are low, short-term rates are even lower, for we are deep in recession with an enormous…
A Few Notes on the "Doux Commerce" Thesis →
The thesis that market economies would be worth having for their own sake, even if they were inefficient at production and distribution, is held by Tyler Cowen: Who is a first-best economist?: I think of myself as a better-than-first-best economist. On average market solutions have positive Pareto-relevant externalities, if only through supplying experimentation and strengthening social norms...
Jon Stewart: Obama's Health Care Trap →
Amanda Marcotte: New York Times FAIL: Ross Douthat →
Blake Hounshell: New York Times FAIL: Roger Cohen... →
Jon Chait: Romney Death Watch →
Jonathan Chait's Romney Death Watch Doesn't Go Far... →
Chait writes: Romney Death Watch: Republicans believe that the Affordable Care Act is socialist tyranny. Romney’s position is basically that socialist tyranny is okay as long as it’s imposed…
The term was advanced by philosopher Antony Flew... →
John Quiggin: No True Scotsman →
Twitter / Atrios: chuck lane really wants to ... →
Tracy Clark-Flory: Sandra Bullock should have... →
UPI: Tea Party donor sues convention organizer →
Hoisted from the Archives: Economist of Mass... →
Was this part of the “Stupidest Man Alive” series or of the “Republican War on Science” series or of the “American Enterprise Institute Quality Research” series? Silly question! It was part of…
GPS, THE GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE: Paul Krugman and... →
Matthew Yglesias Cooling Saucer Watch: Dyer... →
Meaning of Passover Blogging: Jennifer Rubin of... →
Via Matthew Yglesias, Jennifer Rubin of Commentary blogs that Passover is not about social justice but about the right to build settlements on the West Bank: Passover Mush: Obama……
Randy Barnett: Stupidest Man Alive for March 30,... →
Second Congress, Session I: An ACT more effectually to provide for the National Defence, by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States.: Be it enacted by the Senate and…
Duncan Black: Chunky Reese Witherspoon Made Them... →
Portland Hamburgers →
Michael Moynihan: The Bolivarian Rot Spreads →
Mark Roe: Bankruptcy's Financial Crisis... →
Andrew Leonard: Why do the bond vigilantes fear a... →
Sasha Issenberg: RomneyCare=ObamaCare →
Jake Tapper: At the same time Jews worl ... →
Is Michael Steele the Best Possible Chairman for... →
A question Sydelle Moore asks me this morning. My answer: Quite possibly yes—although it does depend on what “possible” means. In my view, Steele is likely to be a better leader for the…
Special Passover Edition: Republicans in Bondage... →
Chip Hanlon: One Little Bar Tab Should Put Michael Steele at Risk: “Take us to the hottest nightclub in town.” Those were the instructions given to Orange County’s Erik Brown by RNC staffers…
Nightly Business Report: The Politics of Health... →
Commentary-The Politics of Health Care Reform | Nightly Business Report | PBS: Monday, March 29, 2010 SUSIE GHARIB: With historic health care reforms now the law, tonight’s commentator says…
Hoisted From the Archives: John Robbins: Open... →
Ah. I see that George Mason’s History News Network http://hnn.us/ is eager to climb into bed with Lew Rockwell http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/124678.html—somebody who has no place in American…
Figure of the Day: Tim Geithner Makes Us $8... →
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links for 2010-03-30 →
RNC Spent Nearly $2,000 At Club With Topless Dancers | TPM LiveWire
Does Thinking of New Luxuries Make Us Unhappy? →
George Stigler wrote somewhere that the purpose of economic growth is to make us not think of necessities, to turn what were once extravagant luxuries into necessities, and to allow us to invent…
The Maturity Transformation (and Liquidity... →
Paul Krugman writes: Don’t Be Narrow-Minded: I see that Greg Mankiw seems to favor narrow banking: require banks to hold all their deposits in liquid, short-term assets, thus obviating the…
Julian Sanchez Wins for All Time... →
I bow before my master: Grasping Reality With Our Gelatinous Meatsacks: Will Wilkinson is a little snarky about it, but basically right: Freddie DeBoer’s post on naturalism and the skeptical…
FinReg Optimal Financial System Design: Mankiw vs.... →
David Wessel reports that Greg Mankiw has declared himself in favor of narrow banking: MHow Much Leverage Do Banks Need to Be Useful?: The conversation between Alan Greenspan and some of…
Please Shut the Washington Post Down Right Now... →
Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps? Menzie Chinn reads Robert Samuelson so we do not have to. Thank you, Menzie: Econbrowser: Robert Samuelson on Economics: And on unavoidable…
Republican National Committee Expenditures of... →
The legwork is not mine, but Financial Disclosure Forms are wonderful things. Give to the Republican National Commitee, and you may well wind up funding someone’s night out at Voyeur West…
Mark Thoma Comments on: "Taking Hope in the Long... →
He does not want to calm down: When nearly 10% of the people are unemployed and government is looking the other way hoping it will somehow fix itself, I have no intention of calming down no…
RomneyCare Is the BiPartisan Center →
Greg Sargent: The Plum Line: Some interesting numbers on “repeal” from CNN just landed in the old in-box: Thinking about the health care bill that Congress passed this week, which of the…
Worth Reading #2: What Is (and Isn't) in the... →
(Lost the link to this): What’s in the Bill: The health-care bill covers 32 million uninsured—1 million more people than the Senate version of the bill would have, but 4 million fewer than the…
Worth Reading #1: Tom Ricks on Jane Mayer on Marc... →
Tom Ricks: Why Jane Mayer deserves a prize: The New Yorker corrects the Thiessen account on torture and interrogation: Jane Mayer deserves some sort of special prize for all her writings — a book…
Worth Reading #3: Felix Salmon vs. Henry Blodget... →
Twitter / felix salmon: .@hblodget’s business mode …: @hblodget’s business model: Take a story about M&A fees associated with AIG. Illustrate with 2 hot babes kissing. http://bit.ly/dexECw
