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The continuing story of the 800-pound gorilla

Posted by Unknown | 7:39 AM
Apparently some among the Chinese leadership thought that once their country was the most powerful on Earth, all other countries would do wh...
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Does government spending get flushed down a toilet?

Posted by Unknown | 8:37 PM
Greg Mankiw offers his thoughts on Obama's proposed bipartisan fiscal commission: [W]hat if you are [a] conservative [on the fiscal com...
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U.S. government spending saves the world (again)

Posted by Unknown | 5:59 AM
From the government agency that brought you nuclear power, space travel, computers, and the internet: The brain trust of the Pentagon says...
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I can has smrt kulcher?

Posted by Unknown | 11:16 AM
Ry forwards me the following chain email: Friends & Associates, Please meet Dr Starner Jones from Jackson , Mississippi...
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The "sensible center" sours on China

Posted by Unknown | 6:54 AM
Robert Samuelson, as usual, gets some facts wrong in his most recent column about China (for instance, if the purpose of Chinese trade poli...
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Texas vs. the future

Posted by Unknown | 7:48 AM
Bob Herbert has a decent column about how China is beating the U.S. in the race for solar energy . An excerpt: Way back in 1979, in the mids...
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Nutty Jewish philosophers who wreck civilization

Posted by Unknown | 10:06 AM
It kind of makes me sad that both Ayn Rand and Karl Marx were Jewish. Together, these two philosophers have caused more devastation to the w...
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Why don't more people go to nonexistent colleges? Take a wild guess.

Posted by Unknown | 9:46 AM
Ryan Avent notes that one reason Americans' median income has stalled might be that our education level is no longer increasing : [A] wo...
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Markets aren't efficient, except when I want them to be

Posted by Unknown | 8:42 AM
It really saddens me when Brad DeLong uses an obviously moronic argument. That is not a thing that often happens. But here's the proof :...
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Kill Medicare

Posted by Unknown | 8:25 AM
Paul Krugman reports that Paul Ryan wants to balance the budget by taking people's Medicare away : Well, Rep. Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for Am...
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Lame theory

Posted by Unknown | 7:36 AM
Via Ry, here's a piece on why the Democratic party seems so much less united than the GOP: Up until about 2006 GOP solidarity remained ...
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What is China doing wrong? A more nuanced view.

Posted by Unknown | 7:12 AM
In the past week or two, I've been posting a lot of criticism of China's policies, both in the security realm (cybersecurity, hackin...
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