Noah Smith, chief advisor to the McCain campaign
Interesting fact: the McCain economic plan for government purchase of mortgages was suggested by me on 9/26. Of course, that was when the ...
Fresh-breaking news from my swivel-chair
The McCain campaign appears to have undergone a fundamental shift. It seems the campaign is no longer about winning, it's about looking ...
Semper ubi sub ubi
Maureen Dowd asserts that America is following in the downward footsteps of the Roman Empire . The writing may be silly, but the thesis is a...
Awwwwww yeah
Paul Krugman just won the Nobel Prize in economics . Yes, that Paul Krugman. Now, he won it for his theory of "economic geography,...
Investment - an economic paradigm for liberals
Liberals need an economic philosophy other than "take money from the rich and give it to the poor." We used to have a great one: i...
Talent Diversion
A couple years ago, a friend of mine complained that the finance industry was sucking up way too much of our top talent. Instead of a lonely...
Race and the race, cont.
Good for John McCain
If Sarah Palin's speeches are any indicator, the McCain campaign has decided to go all-out with the "Obama is a scary outsider...
Race and the race, cont.
Here's some more excerpts from that same George Packer article on Ohio swing voters : “I think the party-line Democrats are having a har...
Noah's conservative rant
Ezra Klein calls George Packer's essay on Ohio swing voters " deeply moving [and] deeply sad ." The article basically ignore...
Crisis (of faith) averted
A couple weeks ago, conservatives were having a crisis of faith. The economy was heading into free fall, and everyone was saying it was dere...
