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Lipsticks, pigs, etc.

Posted by Unknown | 4:30 PM
This weekend, Ry sent me this very interesting story about Newt Gingrich. It's a little-known fact that Newt was a boyhood idol of mine...
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For the love of all that is holy, NATIONALIZE THE BANKS!!!!!!

Posted by Unknown | 3:55 PM
Paul Krugman thinks we should nationalize the banks . Joseph Stiglitz thinks we should nationalize the banks . Adam Posen thinks we should n...
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The conservative media

Posted by Unknown | 1:11 PM
The Washington Post, one of the nation's three leading papers, now employs as regular editorial columnists the following people: Charles...
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Krugman echoes Noah

Posted by Unknown | 8:32 AM
They are two pretty obvious points. But it's still nice to see Paul Krugman using the same language that I usually use when he points o...
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Frenzied Copula-tion

Posted by Unknown | 1:40 PM
A lot of people know that financial firms used a lot of incorrect mathematical models during the run-up to the recent financial crisis. But ...
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We can't get rich selling houses to each other

Posted by Unknown | 10:59 AM
Phoenix, America's fastest-growing major city for most of this decade, owes its "success" to the housing bubble. People moved ...
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After the separation

Posted by Unknown | 9:45 AM
China and the U.S. are joined at the hip - financial siamese twins . China must keep buying U.S. Treasury bills in order to prop up its expo...
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Government vs. the Market

Posted by Unknown | 4:51 PM
If you ask most people which of America's two major parties stands for a bigger economic role for the government, they'll say ...
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The United States' Industrial Policy

Posted by Unknown | 9:48 AM
When people use the term "industrial policy," they usually mean an economic strategy in which the government identifies certain in...
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in which Noah trashes a famous liberal icon math prodigy

Posted by Unknown | 3:15 PM
Nate Silver - he of the magical statistics models that beat every polling firm in existence, he of the brilliant 2008 campaign coverage - ju...
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DeLong 1, Forces of Darkness and Ignorance 0

Posted by Unknown | 6:37 AM
Gregory Clark , dept. chair of economics at UC Davis: [The stimulus debate] has seen people like Brad DeLong accuse distinguished macro-econ...
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Small enough to drown in a bathtub

Posted by Unknown | 6:39 AM
California is about to experience that very thing as GOP lawmakers in the state legislature let ideology trump the welfare of the world...
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