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Shadow of the Lack of a Hegemon
Nobel Prize-winning economist blames depression on Obama scaring people
Posted by Unknown | 6:18 PM
Brad DeLong points us to an interview with Nobel-winning macroeconomist Edward Prescott, in which he says: I think the financial crisis ha...
It is all about race...but it doesn't have to be.
Posted by Unknown | 9:23 AM
As recently as a few years ago, I honestly did not realize how much of America's political discourse is shaped by racial issues. I thoug...
Race and bus bullies
Posted by Unknown | 8:41 AM
School bus beating . Nerdy Looking Kid attempt to sit with Bully. Bully punches Nerdy Looking Kid. Other kids cheer. Oh yeah, Bully was blac...
That's just UNCONSCIOUS KNOWLEDGE
Posted by Unknown | 6:27 AM
Here's a blogger who thinks that "birthers," "deathers," and "truthers" are basing their wild claims not o...
Thus I untie your Gordian Knot!
Posted by Unknown | 8:18 AM
I don't really understand the health care market. I don't know why we have a "fee for service" model instead of a "pa...
Towards "good" financial innovation
Posted by Unknown | 8:04 AM
Here's a good article about how the financial crisis has changed the face of financial innovation. For me, this was the key takeaway: [...
Fix our public schools or they'll be scrapped
Posted by Unknown | 7:16 PM
Dana Goldstein offers up a fairly weak attack on merit pay for public schoolteachers : Forty years of psychological research demonstrates t...
Not all free trade is created equal
Posted by Unknown | 9:14 PM
Free trade generally comes down to an argument between growth vs. distribution. Few would argue that opening up a rich country's markets...
Where has the Real America gone?
Posted by Unknown | 12:47 PM
Black teenager heroically stops gun-toting looney on public bus ! Wait...don't you mean "gun-toting citizen heroically stops crimin...