Ed Prescott unleashed

Posted by | 7:03 PM
Ed Prescott is a Nobel Prize winner in economics...his famous theory, which is called "Real Business Cycle Theory," basically stat...

Bad logic on unions

Posted by | 5:19 PM
Matt Yglesias writes: [W]hen you hear about the evils of EFCA recall that when unionization rates were higher in the first half of the post...

Are we a conservative nation?

Posted by | 10:22 AM
Yglesias and Krugman are not very impressed with a Newsweek editorial that claims that America is a center-right country . But it's ha...

Whither the Republic(ans)?

Posted by | 12:42 PM
Via Ry, stories about McCain supporters slashing tires at Obama rallies and harassing Obama voters at the polls . Seeing this made me thi...

Bad bets

Posted by | 12:27 PM
Nate Silver has uncovered a "rogue trader" trying to manipulate the Intrade presidential election futures markets. The trader has...

Krugman is right, but...

Posted by | 9:58 AM
Krugman sayeth : [T]his is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. Th...

Yglesias sums it up

Posted by | 9:42 AM
Matt Yglesias gets what for me might as well be the last word on the "New Narrative": [I]t seems to me that the Republicans were ...

Oh yeah? Well you like ICE CREAM! :P

Posted by | 2:39 PM
Ry wrote to notify me of this : A local California GOP women’s organization’s most recent newsletter claims that if Obama is elected, his fa...

A Bresh of Freth Air

Posted by | 8:20 PM
I actually thought this debate was a tie. Obama dodged a lot of questions and gave a lot of stale answers. He didn't respond nearly as f...

GOPuh-leeze

Posted by | 4:59 PM
The two biggest Republican talking points on the air right now are A) the "New Narrative", and B) the idea that ACORN is committin...

New Narration

Posted by | 8:25 AM
Given our continuing economic troubles, it's no surprise that the "New Narrative" (that the crisis was caused by stupid minori...

Swingers

Posted by | 6:15 AM
Ezra Klein continues on his crusade to prove there are very few real "swing voters." He writes: Examining the 2004 election, [res...