Posted by Unknown | 7:27 AM
Never again will I make fun of China for faking stuff at the Olympic opening ceremonies. Not when our finest musicians pull a Milli Vanilli ...
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Never again will I make fun of China for faking stuff at the Olympic opening ceremonies. Not when our finest musicians pull a Milli Vanilli ...It's the Marignal Cost, stupid!

Posted by Unknown | 6:45 AM
Largely forgotten in the Great Stimulus Debate (latest broadsides here and here ) has been the question of public goods creation. Or rather...
Once again.

Posted by Unknown | 9:18 AM
First black president. Liberal resurgence. Worldwide prestige. New approach to the economic crisis. Yes, those things matter a lot. But what...
Economics explained, unfortunately

Posted by Unknown | 10:47 AM
The debate over Obama's proposed stimulus bill has sparked a public clash of academic economists the like of which has rarely been witne...
Nationalize Teh Banks!
Posted by Unknown | 10:13 AM
Paul Krugman thinks we should nationalize our banks . Felix Salmon thinks we should nationalize our banks . Willem Buiter thinks we should n...
Can't win em all
Posted by Unknown | 12:41 PM
The Economist's awesome Bush retrospective points out something unprecedented about Bush's response to 9/11: Sean Wilentz, a histor...
On second thought, let the door hit you in the ass on the way out
Posted by Unknown | 12:34 PM
The Economist, on economic and international issues, is generally perceived as a right-leaning magazine. So it's really worth a "Wo...
Of church and state

Posted by Unknown | 9:33 AM
I guess I should be prepared to denounce this column by Michael Gerson, neocon hack and evangelical blowhard. And indeed, its contempt for ...
Is American power on the wane?
Posted by Unknown | 7:34 AM
Paul Kennedy literally wrote the book on the rise and fall of great powers. So when he writes that American power is on the wane , shouldn...
India: the part Bush got right

Posted by Unknown | 8:19 AM
As George W. Bush thankfully prepares to slink away forever from an office to which he was disastrously unsuited, and as we all dust off our...
The Lost Decade
Posted by Unknown | 8:26 PM
Many people are wondering if, as a result of the financial crisis, America will suffer a "Lost Decade" similar to that suffered by...
Macroeconomics has really, really, really dropped the ball

Posted by Unknown | 1:56 PM
Matt Yglesias puts the idea of a recession in startlingly simple terms : We have lots of people now with the ability to do useful work and t...