Posted by Unknown | 9:21 AM

Oklahoma's legislature is considering adopting a resolution blaming the recession on "moral debauchery": WHEREAS, we believe ...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:34 PM

Krugman writeth : I think the president has this wrong : President Obama on Sunday praised the energy bill passed by the House late last...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:17 PM

The broad consensus among economics bloggers and journalists seems to be that the bank bailouts and the stimulus have saved us from the kind...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:30 AM

...is that people or groups are more likely to fight or compete against other people or groups that are more similar to them. Similarity bre...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:11 AM

Forever is a long time. Sometimes you love someone, and you build a life with them, and then over the years your love for them goes away, an...

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Posted by Unknown | 4:51 AM

Via Krugman , a great quote from the estimable Barney Frank: We have a very odd economic philosophy in Washington: It’s called weaponized K...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:36 AM

And the Republicans have been sowing primarily out of the back end of their digestive tract. Hispanics and Asians have basically joined blac...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:48 AM

The "zero bound" problem in monetary economics is this: The central bank can't cut nominal interest rates to lower than zero, ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:01 AM

This is a bit rich : Republican senators criticized President Barack Obama on Sunday for not taking a tougher public stand in support of Ira...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:17 AM

For nigh onto a decade, whenever I saw George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney on the TV, I had a nagging feeling tickling at the back of ...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:03 AM

If Hari Seldon, the fictional social scientist who can predict the future course of history with uncanny accuracy, has a real-world analog, ...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:17 PM

Thought I'd offer my two cents on the Iran chaos . By far the most interesting theory I've heard as to what really happened in Iran...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:24 AM

Yglesias gets global financial imbalances slightly wrong, I think. Yglesias and Klein and Pearlstein (whom he cites) argue that funky finan...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:48 AM

Sigh . At least she didn't carve a backwards "B" onto her face. Remember, anyone who thinks the modern conservative movement, ...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:21 AM

I'll be out until Monday the 15th...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:44 AM

When we think of wars in which blood is exchanged for oil, we tend to think of the U.S. sending the Marines into some Arabian desert sometim...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:27 PM

Yglesias: [E]conomists have unearthed an extremely fruitful paradigm for investigation of micro issues. This has been good for them, and enh...

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