Posted by Unknown | 3:37 PM

I have called Tim Geithner a staunch defender of financial industry supremacy (or something to that effect), but if he really is fighting fo...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:12 AM

How I would have loved to have been at this conference on the future of macroeconomics . The essential gist: Joseph Stiglitz reiterated the ...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:11 AM

America's economy is recovering , thanks to the swiftness of our policy response (Obama gets much of the credit , but George Bush and Be...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:26 AM

John Derbyshire thinks that there isn't much hope for reducing racial disparities in employment and education, because black people (on ...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:29 PM

K rugman c ontinues his lonely insurgency in favor of a tough line on China's currency. He's making sense , but making few friends ...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:36 AM

Thomas Friedman is making so much sense it's surprising : Good-paying jobs don’t come from bailouts. They come from start-ups. And wher...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:19 PM

The WSJ and other conservative outlets are fond of claiming that either government spending and/or low interest rates are raising the risk o...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:34 AM

Harold Meyerson, on U.S. political institutions and national strength : I don't mean to sound nostalgic for the Cold War, but we've...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:47 PM

I had always assumed that The Economist fairly tightly controlled the views that their stable of bloggers expressed, forcing them to maintai...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:26 PM

Health Care Reform was the biggie - the thing that Democrats had been pushing for for decades, the expansion of the social safety net that p...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:51 AM

About a month ago, a conservative friend told me that most Americans didn't favor the health care reform bill. At the time, he was right...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:21 AM

For the last week, this blog has been all China, all the time. Why? Arguably, the approaching nail-biting climax of America's health car...

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