August 2010
Gurk!! Data Error or Housing-Market Double-Dip?
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Yes, the World Is Getting Warmer →
Another all-time temperature record: Jeff Masters: Weather Underground: At 4pm local time today in Moscow, Russia, the temperature surpassed 100°F for the first time in recorded history. The…
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Media Matters on Perry Bacon Jr., the Washington Post’s Worst Reporter
Michael Pettis: Do Sovereign Debt Ratios Matter?
Andrew Harless: Time to Stop Worrying About Structural…
Bill Clinton on Robert Byrd →
Bill Clinton: Bill Clinton: Byrd Spent ‘Rest Of His Life’ Making Up For KKK Association: Former President Bill Clinton referenced the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s membership in the Ku Klux Klan as…
Fiscal Policy: Department of "Huh?!" →
The Economist Asks: “Are current deficit reduction plans likely to boost growth?” And Roberto Perotti answers: The honest answer is that we don’t know: THE honest answer to the question of…
Long-Past Time to Simply Shut Down the Washington... →
There is a sick culture in there. We don’t need it. We really don’t need it. Eric Boehlert: WashPost TV critic smears ABC’s Amanpour as possible Taliban sympathizer: Everyone knows that…
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Is budget arsonist David Stockman really claiming to be part of the fire department? And lecturing Republicans about responsibility? And the New York Times enables this? Without a peep of…
Yes, the Odds Are That Structural Unemployment in... →
Live at The Economist: Q: Is America facing an increase in structural unemployment? A: Yes, but there is still time to prevent a big rise: David Altig of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta…
links for 2010-08-01 →
Economics of Contempt: Why the Fed Isn’t Doing More
Damon LInker: Turning Right DL: “[F]rom the beginning there have been two very different branches of neoconservativ[ism]…. The…
Eleanor Roosevelt Liveblogs World War II: August... →
Eleanor Roosevelt: My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, August 2, 1940: I have a most amusing letter from a gentleman who is evidently promoting a secretarial school run by a young lady in whom he…
Debt Capacity Is a Resource To Be Used When... →
Live at The Economist: Q: Are current deficit reduction plans likely to boost growth? A: No, and debt capacity is a resource to be used in hard times: MY GUESS is that current…
DeLong Smackdown Watch: Size of the Stimulus... →
Hoisted from Comments: Daniel writes: The ARRA: Underpowered from the Start: Peter Orszag insisted earlier today at an event at Brookings that it would have been impossible to pass a larger…
Incentives and the Environment: Ryan Avent... →
RA: The Bellows » Innovation, and the Gas Tax: I’m not sure why anyone would argue that the imposition of a carbon price, even a relatively modest one, wouldn’t spur innovation. Price…
Ed Luce Quotes Larry Katz on Wealth, Poverty, and... →
Ed Luce: The crisis of middle-class America: Statistics only capture one slice of the problem. But it is the renowned Harvard economist, Larry Katz, who offers the most compelling analogy:
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? Tom... →
Tom Zeller sticks the lead of his story in paragraph sixteen, and calls it a “caveat”—albeit a “not insignificant” one. Tom if it is a significant part of the story, doesn’t it belong a lot…
Liveblogging World War II: August 1, 1940 →
Minutes of the British War Cabinet for August 1, 1940
Excellent Article by Ed Luce →
FT.com / Reportage - The crisis of middle-class America:
links for 2010-07-31 →
Ed Luce: The crisis of middle-class America
Edward Niedermeyer: The Volt - G.M.’s Electric Lemon
Paul Krugman: Clockwise Spirals
Mike Konczal: Chris Hayes, guest hosting…
