Public Investment Goods
I've said it (a billion times) before, and I'll say it again: government spending is essential for economic growth. That doesn't...
Life Imitates Old Testament
Lines on a map
The West is going blue . Colorado and New Mexico have been there for a couple years now, thanks to shifting demographics (liberal white peop...
McCain's final turd fling
As John McCain teeters, tumbles, and falls into the abyss of political irrelevance, he reaches out to fling one last turd at the reality-bas...
Ed Prescott unleashed
Bad logic on unions
Matt Yglesias writes: [W]hen you hear about the evils of EFCA recall that when unionization rates were higher in the first half of the post...
Are we a conservative nation?
Yglesias and Krugman are not very impressed with a Newsweek editorial that claims that America is a center-right country . But it's ha...
Whither the Republic(ans)?
Bad bets
Nate Silver has uncovered a "rogue trader" trying to manipulate the Intrade presidential election futures markets. The trader has...
Krugman is right, but...
Krugman sayeth : [T]his is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. Th...
Yglesias sums it up
Matt Yglesias gets what for me might as well be the last word on the "New Narrative": [I]t seems to me that the Republicans were ...
