Posted by Unknown | 4:30 PM

This weekend, Ry sent me this very interesting story about Newt Gingrich. It's a little-known fact that Newt was a boyhood idol of mine...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:55 PM

Paul Krugman thinks we should nationalize the banks . Joseph Stiglitz thinks we should nationalize the banks . Adam Posen thinks we should n...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:11 PM

The Washington Post, one of the nation's three leading papers, now employs as regular editorial columnists the following people: Charles...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:32 AM

They are two pretty obvious points. But it's still nice to see Paul Krugman using the same language that I usually use when he points o...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:40 PM

A lot of people know that financial firms used a lot of incorrect mathematical models during the run-up to the recent financial crisis. But ...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:59 AM

Phoenix, America's fastest-growing major city for most of this decade, owes its "success" to the housing bubble. People moved ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:45 AM

China and the U.S. are joined at the hip - financial siamese twins . China must keep buying U.S. Treasury bills in order to prop up its expo...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:51 PM

If you ask most people which of America's two major parties stands for a bigger economic role for the government, they'll say ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:48 AM

When people use the term "industrial policy," they usually mean an economic strategy in which the government identifies certain in...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:15 PM

Nate Silver - he of the magical statistics models that beat every polling firm in existence, he of the brilliant 2008 campaign coverage - ju...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:37 AM

Gregory Clark , dept. chair of economics at UC Davis: [The stimulus debate] has seen people like Brad DeLong accuse distinguished macro-econ...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:39 AM

California is about to experience that very thing as GOP lawmakers in the state legislature let ideology trump the welfare of the world'...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:56 PM

Something about this gruesome case caught my eye: The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their bi...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:19 AM

Rahm Emanuel today conceded that Obama's push for bipartisanship on the stimulus bill ended up giving Republicans control of the debate...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:13 PM

China is apparently not happy about the soaring U.S. national debt: LUO PING, director-general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, ...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:27 AM

It's been requested that I take a break from posts about my usual tubthumping topics (Republican racism and sex-and-politics), so I'...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:14 AM

Jonah Goldberg is trying to write a column about the upside of the current crash . Donald Luskin beat him to the punch (via Ry). This is ...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:43 AM

Liberal commentary on what the cities of the future should look like, from blogger Matt Yglesias: [W]hat they have in Arlington is a long ...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:51 PM

Anyone who is interested in Japan or its economy, or just can't get enough of my writing, can go check out my latest guest post on Obse...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:14 AM

The basic idea of "free-market economics" is that, if properly regulated, markets will lead to an optimal (efficient) outcome. Thi...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:14 PM

I recently got banned from the TexAgs forum , while...um...using Ry's ID...(sheepish grin)... As near as we can tell, the offensive post...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:11 AM

Matt Yglesias points out the oddity of the fact that, even in this deflationary downturn, many conservatives are still focused on inflation...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:56 AM

Larry Kudlow is one of America's premier "hackonomists" - a bunch of people with little or no economics training who blather o...

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