Posted by Unknown | 1:13 PM

Writing in Mother Jones, Kevin Drum notes that liberals have been far more willing to cut the deficit than conservatives over the past 30 y...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:21 PM

Though Brad DeLong is, far and away, my favorite econ blogger out there today, there are times when I disagree with him. In an article in Fo...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:31 PM

David Pilling has a long, rambling, but good column in the Financial Times about the rise of Asia. It's all over the place, but basica...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:24 AM

It is becoming more and more apparent that the U.S. government has two choices: A) drastic cuts in health care expenditure, or B) a soverei...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:33 AM

Regarding my last post , an anonymous commenter asks: Why do you insist that Angus is a conservative? Are you unable to make a distinction b...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:36 AM

Over at Kids Prefer Cheese, blogger Angus (after merciless heckling from Yours Truly in the comments section) relents and gives me his reaso...

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Posted by Unknown | 3:38 PM

It is fashionable these days to speak of Japan as the "sick man of Asia," a country in severe and possibly irreversible economic a...

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Posted by Unknown | 6:31 AM

"Angus" at the blog Kids Prefer Cheese gives us a post called " one reality, many interpretations ?": The progressiv...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:03 PM

Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics fame, writes of Paul Krugman : I did not think that Paul Krugman was still writing academic papers. Nor h...

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Posted by Unknown | 2:57 PM

Last week, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Charter 08 , a document that calls for democratic reforms ...

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Posted by Unknown | 1:19 PM

Greg Mankiw is an economist whose academic work I greatly admire and respect, but whose economics-related punditry often leaves me gaping in...

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