Chimerica Cliff Notes
Head for the hills, it's Protectionism!!!
Ryan Avent warns that the "buy American" portion of the stimulus plan (stipulating that the government must make stimulus purchase...
The new head elephant
Looks like Michael Steele won . I applaud the choice, given the alternatives. There's plenty I could say about the implications of the...
Vitriol
Commenter "l" (it's a lower-case "L") notes that I've become more vitriolic toward the Republican party. This is...
The new Head Elephant
So we're on a bit of a Republican-bashing kick around here (I believe "vitriolic" was the word used in a recent comment), for ...
Texass
The silent, invisible, intangible majority
As the Republican party struggles to reinvent itself , it would be wise to admit that the political strategies of the last eight years are a...
Ry is angry, but not surprised
The (first) stimulus bill passed with zero Republican support . To those of us old enough to remember the last time we had a Democrat's...
the bankS
Obama's administration is still squeamish about outright nationalization of banks. According to Geithner and Summers, this is because go...
Krugman/Thoma/DeLong: "Real Business Cycle" Theory is Teh St00pid
Amid all the arguing about the effectiveness of this or that kind of fiscal stimulus, the big liberal econ bloggers hadn't gotten aroun...
Terrorism as fund-raising
The Economist this week reports on the decline of al-Qaeda - due, somewhat predictably, to a combination of external pressure and intra-jih...
Manipulative
Tim Geithner, in a break with Bush policy, has accused China of "manipulating its currency." In terms of plausibility, this is rat...
