18 days ago by Tom Bozzo

Via Brad DeLong, Andrew Samwick on Peggy Noonan (yes, I know): I think she is right in her main point about a ___________ leadership class in business and a _________ leadership class in government. Noonan’s answers are “disheartened” and “mindless,” respectively. They’re not exactly my choices with ...

Marginal Utility - atbozzo.wordpress.com · 2 references

29 days ago by davidkirkpatrick

Bartlett is an interesting read these days. One of the major supply-siders back in the day, his economic positions seem to have shifted a bit. He says, and I tend to agree with him, he’s only reacting to the conditions on the ground and his fundamental economic believes are no different than when Re ...

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31 days ago by Prerna

Nativists blame it on ‘dirty illegal immigrants.’ Economists are quick to point out the crash as part of a larger recessionary period that the global economy is undergoing. Politicians groan that California’s budget crisis is really Prop 13, an anti-tax measure that not only put a cap on property ta ...

No Borders and Binaries - prernalal.com · Rank: 89,941 · 36 references

34 days ago by Milt Shook

Let's start by making something crystal clear; for all of their talk, the right wing is not a fan of capitalism.They like it when their heroes make a lot of money, but as organized crime, Enron and Jack Abramoff have proven over many years, it is possible to make a...

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35 days ago by Jason The

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37 days ago by DM

by Dick Mac There is a scene in Casablanca (which might be the most quotable movie ever made) where the local police chief, Captain Renault played by Claude Rains, stands with a Nazi commander in Rik's American Cafe, announcing that he is surprised to learn that there is gambling inside the establis ...

Dick Mac (alive!) - dickmacalive.blogspot.com · 7 references

65 days ago by Carl Luna

A set of articles in Saturday’s and Sunday’s NYT weave an interesting story, though the paper of national record doesn’t actually connect the dots. Indeed, the first two page one articles from Saturday pretty much contradicted each other. Joe Nocera, in his “Talking Business Column” presents an amus ...

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72 days ago by Victor Vijayakirthi

If you close one door, another one opens. A recent article in the NYTimes on credit card companies and credit unions going to desperate lows to make money, was appalling and gut-wrenching. Several of these banks were bailed-out by the federal government’s TARP program. For many of them, it was greed ...

Random Thoughts - victorav.wordpress.com · 1 reference

79 days ago by Dan Mitchell

For the first time in my life, I enjoyed reading a story about soccer. But not because of the sport, but rather because it is very amusing to read about the exodus of top-flight players from England’s Premier League as they escape Prime Minister Brown’s spiteful increase in the top tax rate. The Wee ...

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95 days ago by Timothy Watson

Not that I have anything against the Chinese or Japanese — alright, I might have something against the Chinese government — but it’s absolutely hilarious that the United States government is using Chinese money (from the debt they buy) to boost sales of Japanese businesses (from the Financial Times) ...

Virginia Virtucon - virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com · Rank: 6,758 · 224 references