The new head elephant
Looks like Michael Steele won . I applaud the choice, given the alternatives. There's plenty I could say about the implications of the...
Vitriol
Commenter "l" (it's a lower-case "L") notes that I've become more vitriolic toward the Republican party. This is...
The new Head Elephant
So we're on a bit of a Republican-bashing kick around here (I believe "vitriolic" was the word used in a recent comment), for ...
Texass
The silent, invisible, intangible majority
As the Republican party struggles to reinvent itself , it would be wise to admit that the political strategies of the last eight years are a...
Ry is angry, but not surprised
The (first) stimulus bill passed with zero Republican support . To those of us old enough to remember the last time we had a Democrat's...
the bankS
Obama's administration is still squeamish about outright nationalization of banks. According to Geithner and Summers, this is because go...
Krugman/Thoma/DeLong: "Real Business Cycle" Theory is Teh St00pid
Amid all the arguing about the effectiveness of this or that kind of fiscal stimulus, the big liberal econ bloggers hadn't gotten aroun...
Terrorism as fund-raising
The Economist this week reports on the decline of al-Qaeda - due, somewhat predictably, to a combination of external pressure and intra-jih...
Manipulative
Tim Geithner, in a break with Bush policy, has accused China of "manipulating its currency." In terms of plausibility, this is rat...
If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'
Never again will I make fun of China for faking stuff at the Olympic opening ceremonies. Not when our finest musicians pull a Milli Vanilli ...
It's the Marignal Cost, stupid!
Once again.
Economics explained, unfortunately
Nationalize Teh Banks!
Paul Krugman thinks we should nationalize our banks . Felix Salmon thinks we should nationalize our banks . Willem Buiter thinks we should n...
Can't win em all
The Economist's awesome Bush retrospective points out something unprecedented about Bush's response to 9/11: Sean Wilentz, a histor...
On second thought, let the door hit you in the ass on the way out
The Economist, on economic and international issues, is generally perceived as a right-leaning magazine. So it's really worth a "Wo...
Of church and state
Is American power on the wane?
Paul Kennedy literally wrote the book on the rise and fall of great powers. So when he writes that American power is on the wane , shouldn&...
India: the part Bush got right
The Lost Decade
Many people are wondering if, as a result of the financial crisis, America will suffer a "Lost Decade" similar to that suffered by...
Macroeconomics has really, really, really dropped the ball
Look at me still talking when there's Science to do
The Economist sums up the weird anti-science philosophy of the Bush administration: One of the stranger beliefs of some politicians is that...
Economic Nationalism
