July 2011
Obama Has Always Been for Premature Fiscal... →
Paul Krugman sends us to Mark Thoma who sends us to Jonathan Schwarz, who points out that there is evidence that Obama rejected his economists’ judgment that the economy needed a bigger stimulus…
Herbert Hoover Against Early Payment of the WWI... →
Herbert Hoover: September 14, 1932: It is my duty to the country and to the veterans that there should be no misunderstanding of my position upon payment of the face value of the adjusted…
Jeebus Save Us! →
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Liveblogging World War II: July 16, 1941 →
Winston S. Churchill:
Business Investment in Equipment and Software Is... →
Companies are having no trouble at all finding the cash to boost their stocks of machinery, equipment, and software. No trouble at all. What is still profoundly in the dumps is…
Treasury Nominal Yield Curve Rates →
That sucker at the far right has a duration of 17 years… Right now I am really, really, really sorry that we do not have a consol…
Alan S. Blinder: Our National Jobs Emergency →
Alan S. Blinder: Our National Jobs Emergency.
Wonkette Learns About the Balance Sheet Recession →
Wonkette: Study: Americans Poor Now Because They Don’t Have Any Money: A startling new study proves that America’s Middle Class has been utterly, completely wiped out…. Apparently, wages…
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?... →
I could not believe this: Robert Bridges: A Home Is a Lousy Investment/a>: At the risk of heaping more misery on the struggling residential property market, an analysis of home-price and…
George Will and Gretchen Morgenson's Claims That... →
Rebutted by Dean Baker: It really is incredible to see such a concerted effort to rewrite history in front of our faces. There is not much ambiguity in the story of the housing bubble. The…
Rosanne Cash: 500 Miles →
Liveblogging World War II: July 9, 1941 →
2004 Domaine Robert Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du... →
From Cellar Tracker: 2004 Domaine Robert Jayer-Gilles Echezeaux du Dessus, France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Echezeaux Grand Cru: VarietyL Pinot Noir…. Drinking window: Drink…
False Forbes Claims That Per Capita Grain... →
Rebutted by Peter Gleick: Forbes, which regularly publishes biased, misleading, and distorted opinion pieces on climate issues, has just published a remarkable one by Patrick Michaels….
Would Leo Strauss Have Been Opposed to Gay... →
Alan Gilbert informs me that, for some bizarre reason, Sam Tanenhaus has given Harry Jaffa a platform in the New York Times Book Review to denounce gay marriage in New York in the name of Leo…
