Posted by Unknown | 9:32 AM

More Yglesias fixation... Today he takes on the idea (also put forward by me ) that high birthrates are needed to support retirees. First, ...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:17 AM

Yglesias flags an excerpt from this post by conservative blogger Rod Dreher, which purports to explain why conservatives don't approve...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:36 AM

Matt Yglesias wonders why low birth rates are a bad thing: Less clear to me is why so many people seem concerned by the specter of low birth...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:09 AM

Via Yglesias, Jim Webb calls for prison reform . There's the obvious point that marijuana should be decriminalized (if you don't agr...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:49 PM

Matt Yglesias complains that the Republican party, now that it's been kicked out of all branches of government, is free to act as irresp...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:31 AM

You may have noticed that the price of gas has dropped recently. So much for "peak oil," you may think. So much for all those libe...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:45 AM

Over at The Economist's econ blog, howls of despair that the new 90% tax on bonuses at bailout-recipient banks will drive our best bank...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:43 AM

I'm not sure how I managed to overlook this article ...maybe because it was written on election day. But it's one of the best and mo...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:47 AM

Incentives matter. Brad DeLong points out that one reason America finance companies have done so much worse than our tech companies is that ...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:29 AM

When I get around to it, one subject of my PhD research is going to be labor mobility. I want to answer the question: Why do people not move...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:38 AM

Matt Yglesias points out that when countries (like Denmark) make sure that only people who can afford mortgages get mortgages... fewer peopl...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:05 AM

I always knew why AIG got bailed out by the feds - they had insured a bunch of crappy bonds (CDOs, etc.), which then went bust, leaving AIG ...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:47 AM

Ry sent me this little article about the latest antics of the creationist movement, and I won't go into the article, because articles a...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:09 AM

When it comes to the world of investing, "fomenting" (spreading false information about stocks to create self-fulfilling prophecie...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:23 AM

One of the good things about being a new president is that you can address a lot of issues simultaneously, while the opposition can only blo...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:09 PM

I haven't followed the Chas Freeman debate very closely, but maybe I should have. It gives an idea of where liberal foreign policy thin...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:22 AM

HuffPo reports that 15% of Americans now say they have no religion, up from 14.2% in 2001 and 8.2% in 1990. 30% of married couples had a no...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:36 AM

I am not talking about the current crash; I am talking about the decade leading up to it. During that decade, median income did not grow. Th...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:22 PM

Via Brad DeLong , Hilzoy reports on the strange new conservative obsession with Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged. Supposedly, America'...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:03 AM

Although the Obama administration continues to publicly insist that it's not going to nationalize the banks, the argument has essential...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:19 AM

A couple posts ago I asked the question "Why do conservatives hate government?" and offered a few theories. After realizing that ...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:31 PM

When I suggested that many conservative-leaning industries make their money directly or indirectly from the government teat, it didn't s...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:35 PM

TBogg at firedoglake makes light of some recent comments from Michelle Malkin's site, where some of her readers make dire promises to c...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:55 AM

Ry and I have been discussing this post , in which Nate Silver visits CPAC and concludes that conservatives really, really, really hate &quo...

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